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Burke has made the subject intriguing. Kid will take it up trying to find the âtrap,â because he will suspect Burke is pulling a fast one. And Burke is right. He will âdiscoverâ a whole new world of âiffyâ phrases.
When I was in grade school we had a common area shelf with dictionaries we could consult as needed. Many of the âinterestingâ words were often highlighted or adorned with pictures that students had drawn, which made them more like encyclopedic dictionariesâŠ
Iâve often heard that a dullard is someone who can open a dictionary, look up just the word he/she came to look up, and immediately close the dictionary and put it away.
When I was in grade school, one of the punishments they gave out was to keep you in at recess and copy words and definitions out of the dictionary. The teacher would randomly open the dictionary and you would start with the first full word and definition and start writing. It was no punishment for me, but I tried not to let them know I enjoyed it, or they would have me do something else. ;o)
I discovered âpolyandriumâ (broadly translates as âcemeteryâ) while looking up something else. One of my favorite words: âCallipygianâ once turned up in this strip (a word I already knew but was pleased to see)
Back in 1970s, our high school library had an unabridged dictionary with all the curse words in it. One of the upper classmen showed it to me when I was a freshman. I started reading the definitions, laughing uncontrollably. The librarian threw me out for making too much noise.
People who get degrees in something else, and people who donât get degrees at all, love to make fun of liberal arts degrees and the people who earn them. And people with liberal arts degrees put up with it, and people keep getting liberal arts degrees, and colleges and universities keep offering liberal arts degrees, for the same key reason: The most important thing you can learn is, in fact, how to learn more. Not that thereâs anything wrong with training and degrees specific to a relatively narrow field. Thatâs all good, too.
But letâs make a bad joke, shall we? A science major, a business major and a liberal arts major walk into a cave and discover a genie in a bottle. It is the genie of knowledge. Grateful for his freedom, the genie offers each a wish. The science major asks how to be a respected doctor. The business major asks how to be rich. The liberal arts major asks for unlimited wishes.
Whatever you learn, even dirty words in the dictionary, youâre rubbing the lantern.
The idea of âdirty wordsâ is ridiculous. Words describe or help to describe people, places, feelings etc. You can thank the Normal conquest of 1066 for making that via domination and deciding which words were not to be spoken, English, in favor or Norman French.
Burke pulled something similar a while back. He told a student that another student got in trouble for using a bad word. What word? The âEâ word. Frazz observed that he couldnât recall a bad âEâ word, and Burke replied that the student would now learn a lot of good ones.
lee85736 over 5 years ago
Interesting strategy. It might work.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Burke has made the subject intriguing. Kid will take it up trying to find the âtrap,â because he will suspect Burke is pulling a fast one. And Burke is right. He will âdiscoverâ a whole new world of âiffyâ phrases.
cervelo over 5 years ago
When I was in grade school we had a common area shelf with dictionaries we could consult as needed. Many of the âinterestingâ words were often highlighted or adorned with pictures that students had drawn, which made them more like encyclopedic dictionariesâŠ
jel354 over 5 years ago
Seems like the best way kids learn is when they are not trying to learn (like this exercise).
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 5 years ago
Iâve often heard that a dullard is someone who can open a dictionary, look up just the word he/she came to look up, and immediately close the dictionary and put it away.
contralto2b over 5 years ago
When I was in grade school, one of the punishments they gave out was to keep you in at recess and copy words and definitions out of the dictionary. The teacher would randomly open the dictionary and you would start with the first full word and definition and start writing. It was no punishment for me, but I tried not to let them know I enjoyed it, or they would have me do something else. ;o)
childe_of_pan over 5 years ago
I discovered âpolyandriumâ (broadly translates as âcemeteryâ) while looking up something else. One of my favorite words: âCallipygianâ once turned up in this strip (a word I already knew but was pleased to see)
Joliet Jake over 5 years ago
Back in 1970s, our high school library had an unabridged dictionary with all the curse words in it. One of the upper classmen showed it to me when I was a freshman. I started reading the definitions, laughing uncontrollably. The librarian threw me out for making too much noise.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Blog PostsFrazz17 hrs ·
People who get degrees in something else, and people who donât get degrees at all, love to make fun of liberal arts degrees and the people who earn them. And people with liberal arts degrees put up with it, and people keep getting liberal arts degrees, and colleges and universities keep offering liberal arts degrees, for the same key reason: The most important thing you can learn is, in fact, how to learn more. Not that thereâs anything wrong with training and degrees specific to a relatively narrow field. Thatâs all good, too.
But letâs make a bad joke, shall we? A science major, a business major and a liberal arts major walk into a cave and discover a genie in a bottle. It is the genie of knowledge. Grateful for his freedom, the genie offers each a wish. The science major asks how to be a respected doctor. The business major asks how to be rich. The liberal arts major asks for unlimited wishes.
Whatever you learn, even dirty words in the dictionary, youâre rubbing the lantern.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
The idea of âdirty wordsâ is ridiculous. Words describe or help to describe people, places, feelings etc. You can thank the Normal conquest of 1066 for making that via domination and deciding which words were not to be spoken, English, in favor or Norman French.
Ron Bauerle over 5 years ago
Words like fuchsia and shi+take?
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSEXgQ58AoM
DKHenderson about 1 month ago
Burke pulled something similar a while back. He told a student that another student got in trouble for using a bad word. What word? The âEâ word. Frazz observed that he couldnât recall a bad âEâ word, and Burke replied that the student would now learn a lot of good ones.