Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for April 23, 2010
April 22, 2010
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Transcript:
Boy: Dad, what I am I going to do? After four years of college I can't remember anything. How often do they ask you about gerunds and cartesian coordinates at work? Man: Rarely.
I remember having to memorize a passage from “Hamlet” in high school. About 40 years later I was actually able to bring it up during the course of a normal conversation….
The lack of learning would surprise many of you. Visit a local K-12 school and then bug your local school board. America needs less time on computers and more time learning. […sheepishly grinning over my rapid fire posting tendencies…]
Yea, from the table of my memoryI’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,That youth and observation copied there;And thy commandment all alone shall liveWithin the book and volume of my brain,Unmix’d with baser matter: yes, by heaven!”gerund: 1:a verbal noun in Latin that expressesgeneralized or uncompleted action;2: any of
several linguistic forms analagous tothe Latin gerund in languages other than Latinesp. the English verbal noun in-ingthat has the function of a substantiveand at the same time shows the verbal featuresof tense, voice, and capacity to takeadverbial qualifiers and to govern objects.”
zero over 14 years ago
Well, there’s learning & there’s learning.
TheWildSow over 14 years ago
“Learning” – now that’s a gerund!
Yukoneric over 14 years ago
Why engineers take English: instructions have to be clearly written. Now if we could get the Chinese to write English correctly………….
pksampso over 14 years ago
The answer to the kid’s question is, “It depends entirely on where you work!”
As for Chinese English, I once bought a small electronic stopwatch made in China. Part of the operating instructions read as follows:
“Then pressing B once by once.”
rw1h over 14 years ago
I remember having to memorize a passage from “Hamlet” in high school. About 40 years later I was actually able to bring it up during the course of a normal conversation….
thekingster over 14 years ago
The lack of learning would surprise many of you. Visit a local K-12 school and then bug your local school board. America needs less time on computers and more time learning. […sheepishly grinning over my rapid fire posting tendencies…]
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
That’s cause its Shakespeare Day today rw1h
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Did somebody say “Hamlet”? That’s my cue…
Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix’d with baser matter: yes, by heaven! ”gerund: 1: a verbal noun in Latin that expresses generalized or uncompleted action; 2: any of several linguistic forms analagous to the Latin gerund in languages other than Latin esp. the English verbal noun in -ing that has the function of a substantive and at the same time shows the verbal features of tense, voice, and capacity to take adverbial qualifiers and to govern objects.”
Totalloser Premium Member over 14 years ago
How true I never used a 1/4 of what I learned in college on the job.