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[Arseface]

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Hmmm. Cherry trees, tidal basin, biggest masonry structure/phallic representation on earth? DC is a city of monuments, museums, and gardens (the tourist bits, anyway.) True, not as old-- nothing over here is-- but I'm very partial to it. Venice is probably beautiful, too, but I've never been there. And hey, don't they use lots of concrete, too? And DC might not be a floating city, but HEY. We built it on a swamp. That's gotta count for something.

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I'm certainly not saying DC isn't beautiful, I just don't think that anywhere can beat the romance or history of Venice, or other European capitals like Rome of Paris.

Is it bad that my first response (okay, 2nd) to those images is to wonder where the Tidal Basin went?

Actually, that was my first thought as well.

To all mods:

Is it just me who finds studying the works of Shakespeare a completely unneeded part of English class, and should be optional? Or is it just something to get over?

I wasn't planning on it. :lol: It just seems so useless to learn about english from that time period. It is like an obsolete language.

It's not so much the language you're studying, but the literature itself.

 

[Angel]

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Shakespeare is great stuff once you can get into it - same with Greek plays/novels/poetry. There's a lot of biting wit in older written works which often gets overlooked because the wording is so taxing to get past.

P.S. - I think I've run out of cheesecake. Sad moment, please show respect. Thank you.

 

[Skotekal]

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Sure, it would be interesting to some, but it is a mandatory thing to learn in High School, at I don't think I need to know any of this. Sure, it may be nice at one point to know, but I could care less right now.

 

[Angel]

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Oh I'd agree with that for sure - when I was at school I could not have cared less about the stuff they made us endure for the sake of an English Lit grade (which has done nothing for me since, I hasten to add). But if you can get into it at a later stage, it really is good stuff and worth the effort

 

[Walker]

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I'm certainly not saying DC isn't beautiful, I just don't think that anywhere can beat the romance or history of Venice, or other European capitals like Rome of Paris.

C'mon, man, I like a pointless debate as much as anyone, but one entirely subjective shouting match at a time is fine. "DC is prettier!" "Baseball is better!" "Red delicious taste better than golden delicious!" "Clementines are better than tangerines!"

Let's not start another.

 

[Arseface]

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Well.... You're gay!

 

[Shirosaki]

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To all staff: What subjects did you choose at college (and university if applicable) and why?

 

[Dark Drakan]

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To all staff: What subjects did you choose at college (and university if applicable) and why?

At college i did an Advanced ICT course which was meant to involve computer programming and games design. However the lecturer had left at the start of the course so only briefly touched on it before i was moved into a really boring spreadsheet design and programming course. Excel and Access were drilled into my brain for about 8 months and it was tedious as hell. Touched breifly on website design too but think they was to stop us all leaving as we were so bored. :lol:

I was meant to go to University to continue the study of games design and programming however as i missed out on the first year i would have had to go back. Then they told me that i needed 4 years at college (to which they had wasted a year of as i had no plan to get a career involving spreadsheets) then 7 years at University. The idea of being 28 and having not worked and having no money didnt appeal to me as i wasnt guaranteed a job at the end of it.

So the plan was to go to work for a few years and get some money saved then go back and continue the games design courses. However i got a well paid local job that is about 10mins from my house and ive been there 7 years now. Its boring and doesnt tax my brain as much as id like as i like a challenge but its stress free for the most part, local and pays well so cant complain.

 

[Arseface]

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Wait... There's a course on how to use Microsoft Office? Who voluntarily does that course?

 

[Tsuyu]

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Wait... There's a course on how to use Microsoft Office? Who voluntarily does that course?

An easy grade, I suppose. I actually had to attend a class of how to use Microsoft XP once. It was degrading...

But everyone scored top grades in that class.

 

[Dark Drakan]

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Wait... There's a course on how to use Microsoft Office? Who voluntarily does that course?

Wasnt really a class of 'How to do Microsoft Office' it was spreadsheet and database management. Mainly people looking to do data sorting and data management for companies i guess. Getting taught advanced techniques of each program and designing Macros and such doesnt make it any more appealing. Was just a really dull course and what made it worse was we didnt choose to do it. We were all there to learn programming and games design and got lumbered with that. Probably the reason that out of 34 of us only 6 of us finished the course and only 4 passed it.

 

[Skotekal]

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I have basically the same class. Computer Applications. The most god awfully boring class there is. I don't know how I got stuck in it, but it is too late to switch out. Spreadsheets, MS Word, etc. I can't stand it. Not one damn bit.

 

[Arseface]

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It was short and easy

Just like Linux :w00t:

 

[Gikoku]

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People keep saying that, but I've never seen any evidence.

Japanese vocabulary is fairly simple, more so than English. For a foreigner who is learning English for the first time, pronunciation can be a pain in the ass... it's not all straightforward like Japanese.

For example, the letter "O" in English can sound completely different with just a simple combination of letters:

Do
Don't
Done
Doubt

In Japanese, the letter O never changes it's sound no matter what other letter it's next to, same goes for the rest of the Japanese characters. As for the writing system.. (with the exclusion of Kanji) Hiragana & Katakana are as easy to learn & write as the roman alphabet (think of Hiragana as sort of the cursive version of Katakana, and there's only 46 characters to learn for both).

 

[Walker]

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So, there's twice as many characters you need to learn. And how many different tenses, I want to know?

And don't, done, and doubt all sound the same from where I'm sitting. Do is the only one that isn't.

 

[TRA Rotid]

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And don't, done, and doubt all sound the same from where I'm sitting. Do is the only one that isn't.

Interesting. To me, the "o" sounds fairly different in each. (well maybe not in doubt and done)

 

[Gikoku]

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So, there's twice as many characters you need to learn. And how many different tenses, I want to know?

And don't, done, and doubt all sound the same from where I'm sitting. Do is the only one that isn't.

You pronounce O as "oh" in don't, done, and doubt?

There's only 2 tenses in Japanese.

 

[Shirosaki]

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You pronounce O as "oh" in don't, done, and doubt?

There's only 2 tenses in Japanese.

I agree. O is "oh" in don't. O is "uh" in done and O is "ow" in doubt because of the U. Complicated for people trying to learn the language.

 

[Walker]

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You pronounce O as "oh" in don't, done, and doubt?

There's only 2 tenses in Japanese.

Okay, so there is no future? And that's supposed to make it simpler? Riight.

Anywho, I have enough pointless arguments, so DOWN WITH POINTLESS ARGUMENTS. I'm shutting up now.

 

[Gikoku]

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Okay, so there is no future? And that's supposed to make it simpler? Riight.

Anywho, I have enough pointless arguments, so DOWN WITH POINTLESS ARGUMENTS. I'm shutting up now.

They use the present tense for present & future.

... this was an argument?