Multilingual
This came home as homework for the summer. There are no instructions. Not sure if we’re to write it, correct it, rearrange the words or make sense of if. Maybe it’s so my kids can understand Rachel Jeantel if they’re ever on a jury.
Update: answer in comments
July 16th, 2013 at 10:48 pm
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July 16th, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Gah. New WordPress app. Better?
July 16th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
You need to remove your child from that school. NOW !!!
July 16th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Am I allowed to make a White Balance joke?
July 16th, 2013 at 11:20 pm
“Bill asked dont us have no recess today”
THe answer key on p110 says “Bill asked, “Don’t we have any recess today?”
July 16th, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Well they should explain what we’re supposed to do. Thanks
July 17th, 2013 at 12:30 am
I guessed it without the key. “any” is not entirely correct, either. “Recess” does not ordinarily take an article (or whatever the word thing that goes in front is). Bill asked, “Don’t we have recess today?”
July 17th, 2013 at 2:30 am
Or “…any recesses today?” being as there are typically more than one, and in that case “any recesses” would fit.
July 17th, 2013 at 3:15 am
I think the NSA is still working on decrypting her testimony…
July 17th, 2013 at 7:36 am
A couple of classic Little Johnny jokes notwithstanding, it’s high time us all were asking, “Don’t us have no recess?”
July 17th, 2013 at 7:53 am
Is the nuclear option?
July 17th, 2013 at 8:17 am
And what the hell kinda handwriting is that? Why use some bastardization half way between print and cursive? Pick one! Gah!
Damn kids today, get off my lawn.
And I’m talking about the foolish whippersnappers teaching elementary school
July 17th, 2013 at 9:06 am
Correct Answer:
The Man is always trying to keep us down Bill!
July 17th, 2013 at 9:28 am
Roland T. Flakfizer: And that spells cash with a capital…
Jacques: K!
Roland T. Flakfizer: You should go back to school.
Jacques: I hated teaching.
July 17th, 2013 at 9:38 am
The instructions are simple: Dejeantel this sentence.
July 17th, 2013 at 9:46 am
“Oh stewardess! I speak Ebonics!”
July 17th, 2013 at 9:52 am
But recess, we much… we must… and we will much… about… that… be committed.
July 17th, 2013 at 10:44 am
J T Bolt — it’s intended as a transitory font to prep them for cursive.
Meh. Probably works as well as Sister Mary Discipline cracking my knuckles with the Iron Ruler for my bad handwriting. “Learn faster, or I’ll break your hands with my Magic Education Stick!” {chuckle}
July 17th, 2013 at 11:20 am
Kevin Baker
“Oh stewardess! I speak Ebonics!”
Ebonics makes significantly more sense than that mess of a sentence. Slang double negatives actually mean something, even if they’re grating to hear.
Geodkyt
it’s intended as a transitory font to prep them for cursive.
That’d require later classes to involve cursive, which is increasingly rare in modern coursework. Somewhat for understandable reasons — correcting essays is bad enough in print — but enough to make good cursive writing an endangered species.
More likely, the teacher’s handbook’s printers thought it was almost as cool a font as Comic Sans.
July 17th, 2013 at 11:21 am
Cursive isn’t taught in schools any longer. At least it isn’t in any of the local school districts. Computers and all that….
July 17th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Sir, that’s retarded.
July 17th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
“Crawler asked don’t us have no competent educators today”
July 17th, 2013 at 12:39 pm
We had to learn this style of writing in school (graduated high school ’07)- it’s called “D’nealian” or some similar spelling. As a previous commenter noted, the slant and curved style is supposed to make learning cursive easier, which was still taught when I was in grade school. Seems it still is, despite cursive being dropped from curriculums in Indiana.
July 17th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Dentist axed us don’t you have no abscesses today?
July 17th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Obviously taken directly from the curriculum of the Washington D.C. school system. There, no corrections would be acceptable, or necessary.
July 17th, 2013 at 5:41 pm
EGAD! Did that come from a TEACHER?
July 17th, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Grammar nit (being picked): The “any” is correct if they have more than one type of recess (eg. morning recess and lunch recess).