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Danonymous is not online. Danonymous
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07 Sep 2015 08:35 AM
I have literally given up on my higher level English class, westerners can't even speak their own language.

Expertise- Pronounced by my classmates as ex-per-ties

Albeit- El-bite

Melanie- Melone

Ludicrously- Luhd-aye-crew-sly

Dominated- DOMINANT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Stereotypical- Stair-oh-type-akal

There's more that I forgot. I am utterly ashamed that no one but me in my year group could actually read, pronounce and do things correctly. Heck, the teacher thinks the words like "dominated" were too hard for me and that I didn't understand it. She doesn't know me.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 08:42 AM
English class is worthless past elementary school, because by the time you get into high school, there has already been a distinguishing line between those who care and those who don't, and the ones who do care already know the language by then, and the ones who don't will never know.

Of course, I don't live in Ireland.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 08:45 AM
I was the only one of my classmates who could coherently and fluently say "Protestantism". They all kept pausing awkwardly in the reading, stuttering "prostentism", and then continuing.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:47 AM
"English class is worthless past elementary school, because by the time you get into high school, there has already been a distinguishing line between those who care and those who don't, and the ones who do care already know the language by then, and the ones who don't will never know."

There are subtleties, such as appositives, which may be a tad bit complex for a sixth grader to learn. Additionally, there are literary techniques that professional writers use and saying that someone who just graduated primary/elementary school can understand those techniques and know when to apply them is simply stupid. However, I agree to you up to a point, in that English class should be an "elective", I think the term is.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 08:47 AM
I hate how English teachers think that how you read things out loud can measure how good you speak English.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:48 AM
"I was the only one of my classmates who could coherently and fluently say "Protestantism". They all kept pausing awkwardly in the reading, stuttering "prostentism", and then continuing."

Ask them to read aloud a biography on Martin Luther.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:49 AM
"I hate how English teachers think that how you read things out loud can measure how good you speak English."

We are discussing the intricacies of the English language and yet, for some reason, you decided to use "good" as an adverb rather than "well". You should be ashamed of yourself.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 08:50 AM
^Haha, he was actually included in the text.

My father is a Lutheran, actually, which is mostly irrelevant.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 08:51 AM
"There are subtleties, such as appositives, which may be a tad bit complex for a sixth grader to learn. Additionally, there are literary techniques that professional writers use and saying that someone who just graduated primary/elementary school can understand those techniques and know when to apply them is simply stupid. However, I agree to you up to a point, in that English class should be an "elective", I think the term is."

Yes, "elective" is the correct term.

And yes, there are the more complex things in English, but making it mandatory and not even focusing on the teaching of the actual language is quite foolish, and I sincerely dislike whoever decided that was a good idea.
English class in high school turns into "book club (with a grammar reminder here and then)"
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Schismatic is not online. Schismatic
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07 Sep 2015 08:52 AM
@eikoopmit, I don't mean to sound arrogant or argumentative, but funny thing is, my school actually did cover appositives in sixth grade.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:52 AM
"^Haha, he was actually included in the text."

Of course he was! Martin Luther was the one who started the reformation with his ninety-something theses, but if he was included in the text, you probably already know that.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 08:52 AM
Tim, we learned about appositives in fifth grade.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 08:53 AM
"You should be ashamed of yourself."
Excuse me. We are, however, talking about English class, and the difference between "good" and "well" was never fully taught. In middle school, they were still too busy trying to enforce the basics into the idiots' heads while boring the hell out of the smarter kids, and in high school, it's basically, as I said, book club.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 08:53 AM
I believe it was 95.

Such dedication to reforming the Catholic church.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:55 AM
It was merely an example because it was the first thing that came to mind; mayhaps a sentence tree of the first page of Robinson Crusoe would be a better example.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 08:58 AM
First, it is impossible to type accurately on my phone; so this will be both a late post and my last post. Second, in response to Purring's comment, I am glad that I don't go to a U.S. public school.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 09:00 AM
Phone keyboards glitch.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 09:00 AM
Wrong thread, Tim?
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 09:01 AM
"Wrong thread"
Hehe, someone didn't read an entire other thread.
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 09:03 AM
I think he meant to post that on the cultures thread.

Purring made no comment on this thread.
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 09:04 AM
You're absolutely right, dwagon. Purring was never here.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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07 Sep 2015 09:04 AM
Purring is Infamously.
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JeffTheSwordShark is not online. JeffTheSwordShark
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07 Sep 2015 09:05 AM
I don't remember appositives from last year

then again, last year was a clone of fifth grade for language arts for me so most things flew over my head
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oODwagonxX is not online. oODwagonxX
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07 Sep 2015 09:06 AM
You never told me you had an alt!
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InfamouslyOverrated is not online. InfamouslyOverrated
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07 Sep 2015 09:07 AM
That's because it was supposed to be a secret!

Note the past tense.
You really didn't read that thread, dwagon.
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