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05-02-2008, 07:09 AM
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Regardless, as a former English teacher, the technical world is well out of my realm of knowledge and ANYONE, primate or human, who can take letters and symbols and turn them into something that does the functions you make them do is truly skilled - IMHO. 
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05-02-2008, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by GMUAPhiOAdvisor
Regardless, as a former English teacher, the technical world is well out of my realm of knowledge and ANYONE, primate or human, who can take letters and symbols and turn them into something that does the functions you make them do is truly skilled - IMHO.
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True, but it is much easier to get machines to do you want than 16 year old High School students.
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05-07-2008, 08:25 AM
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True, but it is much easier to get machines to do you want than 16 year old High School students.
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As I butcher the English language.....
Ain't THAT the truth?!
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05-07-2008, 10:53 AM
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Ain't
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As I butcher the English language.....
Ain't THAT the truth?!
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*English rant*
I've *never* understood the issue with "ain't" in the English language. It stands as a perfectly reasonable contraction of "am not". Now the statement you've used should use "isn't", but that isn't *that* much of a stretch in English. Also, in English, I can't think of *any* word that can go in a sentence before "am" *other* than I since it is the 1st person singular of "to be". So taking ain't as the contaction of "am not", the I before it can *quite* reasonably be assumed, so "Ain't going" is nearly as proper as "I ain't going" which *should* be just as proper as "I am not going".
*rant off*
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05-09-2008, 07:15 AM
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*English rant*
I've *never* understood the issue with "ain't" in the English language. It stands as a perfectly reasonable contraction of "am not". Now the statement you've used should use "isn't", but that isn't *that* much of a stretch in English. Also, in English, I can't think of *any* word that can go in a sentence before "am" *other* than I since it is the 1st person singular of "to be". So taking ain't as the contaction of "am not", the I before it can *quite* reasonably be assumed, so "Ain't going" is nearly as proper as "I ain't going" which *should* be just as proper as "I am not going".
*rant off*
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I just teach it the way the county tells me to.....I like my job.
Personally, I use y'all in class all the time....and I get dinged for that, too.....
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05-09-2008, 12:06 PM
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Would a Math teacher get equally dinged?
Also, for the Spanish teachers, where is the Spanish that they teach from? Argentine, Mexican, Columbia and Castillian spanish are all somewhat different and unlike the French, they have no concept of a group trying to keep it pure...
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