Telboy's Test!
15 September 2008, 02:30 PM
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Take Harrow school's spelling test | Education | Education Guardian
PS I totally agree with you
PPS I don't read the Guardian
PPS I was pretty darn good (albeit it is for 16 year olds
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Take Harrow school's spelling test | Education | Education Guardian
PS I totally agree with you
PPS I don't read the Guardian
PPS I was pretty darn good (albeit it is for 16 year olds
)
15 September 2008, 02:39 PM
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LOL
To me, those errors just jump out of the page. I remember about four years ago, Mice-Elf (bless 'er), posted a spelling test which was genuinely difficult, (mostly on account of nobody ever using the words they'd chosen) and i scored 16 out of 20. Which was mortifying, to me at least!
In NSR last week we had independant twice. And we've had truely twice today. To me, it just says "I don't actually read anything of substance", as anyone i know personally who does do that, doesn't habitually make those sorts of errors.
To me, those errors just jump out of the page. I remember about four years ago, Mice-Elf (bless 'er), posted a spelling test which was genuinely difficult, (mostly on account of nobody ever using the words they'd chosen) and i scored 16 out of 20. Which was mortifying, to me at least!
In NSR last week we had independant twice. And we've had truely twice today. To me, it just says "I don't actually read anything of substance", as anyone i know personally who does do that, doesn't habitually make those sorts of errors.
15 September 2008, 02:42 PM
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The accepted wisdom used to be: that if you couldn't spell properly, then you were uneducated and probably unintelligent. This would be doubly true of poor grammar, of course.
Discuss.
Discuss.
15 September 2008, 02:45 PM
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From that, it looks as though Harrow is on the skids. When I was a lad you entered Harrow via the common entrance route, which (virtually) always meant preparatory school. If a 13yr old prep school boy couldn't manage that test then they'd have been beaten black and blue!
15 September 2008, 02:48 PM
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Einstein, Faraday, Bell, Richard Branson, Agatha Christie and JFK, amongst others, were all dyslexic.
I mean, you beleive the moon landings were faked, so anything you say is a somewhat tainted anyway to be fair
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15 September 2008, 02:50 PM
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15 September 2008, 03:03 PM
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You need to be very careful drawing any form of conclusion from written communications.
Einstein, Faraday, Bell, Richard Branson, Agatha Christie and JFK, amongst others, were all dyslexic.
I mean, you beleive the moon landings were faked, so anything you say is a somewhat tainted anyway to be fair
Einstein, Faraday, Bell, Richard Branson, Agatha Christie and JFK, amongst others, were all dyslexic.
I mean, you beleive the moon landings were faked, so anything you say is a somewhat tainted anyway to be fair
15 September 2008, 03:06 PM
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Well, it would stop Mr. Glitter and his friends queuing up at Sainsbury's only to be disappointed:
From The Register: Sainbury's punts 'Innocent kids juices' for £2.99 • The Register
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From The Register: Sainbury's punts 'Innocent kids juices' for £2.99 • The Register
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15 September 2008, 03:22 PM
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No word of a lie, in one of the many absorbing conversations i know you can imagine me having, i was asking why kids and ladies, when used possessively, are almost never written as kids' or ladies'. Is that because it's seen as too pompous?
15 September 2008, 05:50 PM
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I recall a "test" many years ago where the "testees" didin't know who the "Prime Minister of the UK" was (Thatcher) and could not even find their current country od residence (England) on a world map. But could identify that not having access to TV, or video games, was being in "poverty".
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I recall a "test" many years ago where the "testees" didin't know who the "Prime Minister of the UK" was (Thatcher) and could not even find their current country od residence (England) on a world map. But could identify that not having access to TV, or video games, was being in "poverty".