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| AndyPsionicFeral |
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| just to let you know how im doing. well, im doing pretty good. Working as a substitute teacher and looking for another job. I need the money. college is expencive and i also have a summer trip planned that i need funding for. so aas i said, im on my second semester of my second year in college and its going pretty good. Im busy though. lots of studing to do and juggling my job and my future second job. health wise im fine. oh i also went to a photo shoot to build my portafolio, yeah im trying to get into acting and modeling so that i can make some money on the side so if you have any connections please let me know. by the way i need to speak to nikki and rain. so you guys know how to find me. please IM. oh and this goes to any one that has any contact info for victor webster. i need to get something to him. so please let me know if you know anything. so thats all for now. i will visit back later and see how you guys are doing. laters Lem. |
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| Blackpanther |
| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:58 pm |
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Glad you're doing well. As for moddeling i suggest you try a big international company like Ford models. No connections though.
I'm cluelss on contacting VW. Someone had the adress for his agent though. I think the webmistress of Pink Hearts. |
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| bohemianbabe |
| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:18 pm |
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yes the webmisstress of pinkhearts has his agent's address! i should know, i'm in the yahoo group with her. lol dont know if i can get it for you though but i will try
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| FireFeral |
| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:52 pm |
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| It's good to hear you're doing well Lem. As far as the rest goes I have no contacts, and I think Next modeling does international too. |
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| PsychoticFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:26 am |
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AndyPsionicFeral wrote: just to let you know how im doing. well, im doing pretty good. Working as a substitute teacher and looking for another job. I need the money. college is expencive and i also have a summer trip planned that i need funding for. so aas i said, im on my second semester of my second year in college and its going pretty good. Im busy though. lots of studing to do and juggling my job and my future second job. health wise im fine. oh i also went to a photo shoot to build my portafolio, yeah im trying to get into acting and modeling so that i can make some money on the side so if you have any connections please let me know. by the way i need to speak to nikki and rain. so you guys know how to find me. please IM. oh and this goes to any one that has any contact info for victor webster. i need to get something to him. so please let me know if you know anything. so thats all for now. i will visit back later and see how you guys are doing. laters Lem.
You teach? I hope not English. Please, God, don't let this person be teaching anything requiring the written word to kids. Please.
PS. Don't try that kind of garble in a real corporation...or a resume. I mean this charitably for your own survival. I would never hire anyone who wrote like that. I would never interview them. |
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| bohemianbabe |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:14 am |
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lem's got good english.....he's just not concentrating here! lol i should know i chat with him alot!
love you lem! and you know that i do, even if i a very very bad girl!
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| PsychoticFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:14 am |
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Quote: lem's got good english.....he's just not concentrating here! lol i should know i chat with him alot!
I've heard that lame excuse before.
Isn't it interesting that non-native speakers can handle the language in the same environment?
It isn't about "concentration". If you are in the habit of writing standard English, with complete sentences and a minimum of typos, you will. If your usual is something else, something else falls out.
What if I told you that I taught math and said 2 + 3 = 6.1, and said, well, I wasn't concentrating?
No, it isn't about concentration. If you know standard English, that's what comes out. If you have to think really hard about what is standard English when you sit down to a keyboard AND you are a native speaker AND you are in your second year of college, there is a problem.
About a year ago I read a collection of documents from the Civil War, including excerpts from many, many letters written home from all levels of the military on both sides. Most ordinary Americans had only an 8th grade education, if that, but they could almost always write standard English, with few misspellings, and great clarity. 145 years later these letters can be read and understood--which is my point: writing mattered, communication mattered, consideration of the letter's reader mattered, so what came out remains more accessible than the original 'text' under discussion. |
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| AndyPsionicFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:05 pm |
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First of all, I am in college and that is not how I write in real life. I do know all the grammar and most of the spelling and if not, I do use the spell check. But, I was in a hurry and just wanted to type something in. So I wrote it like that, it was my choosing to do so. Actually more than half the people in here don’t even care and write like that in real life; you should worry about their grammar and how their kids will write in the future. Now, I do teach English to middle school kids and I am careful to write everything right and to teach them the right way of writing the language, unlike other incompetent teachers that let them write as they speak. You also have no clue how much I correct people on their grammar and their language. My native language might not be English but I have learned and studied the language since first grade. You should read my stories, my school essays, my poetry and some of the old RPS in which I was. That should tell you how I really write. Not just some little blob about how I have been to let some old friends know I'm ok and not dead or that I have fallen off the face of the earth. On that note, you don’t even know me. You joined the site a whole year after I did. At a point when I had left the site so you have no clue who I am. In other words, this post doesn’t even pertain to you so you shouldn’t be worrying so much. There is also almost no chance in the world that I will teach any of your kids or future kids. So stop complaining and let it be. This board doesn't need any more drama. Thank you.
PS. Thanks for the back up Tana. (Can't get used to calling you that. I like you real name better.) |
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| PsychoticFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:22 pm |
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AndyPsionicFeral wrote: First of all, I am in college and that is not how I write in real life. I do know all the grammar and most of the spelling and if not, I do use the spell check. But, I was in a hurry and just wanted to type something in. So I wrote it like that, it was my choosing to do so. Actually more than half the people in here don’t even care and write like that in real life; you should worry about their grammar and how their kids will write in the future. Now, I do teach English to middle school kids and I am careful to write everything right and to teach them the right way of writing the language, unlike other incompetent teachers that let them write as they speak. You also have no clue how much I correct people on their grammar and their language. My native language might not be English but I have learned and studied the language since first grade. You should read my stories, my school essays, my poetry and some of the old RPS in which I was. That should tell you how I really write. Not just some little blob about how I have been to let some old friends know I'm ok and not dead or that I have fallen off the face of the earth. So stop complaining and let it be. This board doesn't need any more drama. Thank you.
PS. Thanks for the back up Tana. (Can't get used to calling you that. I like you real name better.)
Why didn't you just say that you did not give a darn? If you teach English, and you post something like THAT, things are worse than I thought.
The way you REALLY write is the way you write publicly. But, you've said you just don't care about your 'friends'.
Now, I don't teach English. I don't have a degree in English. I'm a chemist. But, miracle of miracles, I've sold (as in paid money) non-fiction in horsey magazines & had fantasy short stories accepted by people I did not know and printed in the non-paying small press--without coursework in either. Can you guess how a non-specialist can manage this?
Practice. A lifetime of practice and writing standard English. I never embarrass myself in text & I'm never mistaken as semi-literate. And I do mean a lifetime: I wrote standard English with a minimum of spelling errors by the age of 8, and so did everyone else in my class. But, for those who don't care, anything will do.
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| AndyPsionicFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:21 pm |
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| I am not going to argue anymore. You not psionic to know whats in my head so I am going to leave it at that. As I said, this board doesnt need more drama and I studied with the best, most of you know who that is, but I know better and I am not going to start any. So this is all for know. You take it how ever you like it. Its not worth my time arguing with you. |
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| PsychoticFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:12 pm |
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You might want to learn to proof read. Timely inclusion of verbs, punctuation, and nouns removes so much mystery from a text.
garbage in, garbage out, as always:
You would think that having some kind of degree would mean you could read reasonably well. NOT SO! Apparently being able to read, comprehend, and use information in text is becoming an arcane skill.
Read and weep.
Reading proficiency down among college grads, tests show
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/13488249.htm ^
Literacy experts and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent adult-literacy assessment that says the reading proficiency of college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious explanation.
"It's appalling - it's really astounding," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. "Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder."
More Americans are graduating from college, and more than ever are applying for admission.
Far fewer are leaving higher education with the skills needed to comprehend routine data, such as reading a table about the relationship between blood pressure and physical activity, according to the federal study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Experts could not definitively explain the drop.
"The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation," said Mark Schneider, commissioner of education statistics.
"It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy."
[No, it isn't.]
"What's disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels," he said.
The test measures how well adults comprehend basic instructions and tasks through reading - such as computing costs per ounce of food items, comparing viewpoints on two editorials and reading prescription labels.
Forty-one percent of graduate students tested in 2003 could be classified as "proficient" in prose - reading and understanding information in short texts - down 10 percentage points since 1992. [51 % is a shocking number.]Of college graduates, 31 percent were classified as proficient - compared with 40 percent in 1992. Schneider said the results do not separate recent graduates from those who have been out of school several years or more.
The results were based on a sample of more than 19,000 people 16 or older who were interviewed in their homes.
They were asked to read prose, do math and find facts in documents. The scores for "intermediate" reading abilities went up for college students, causing educators to question whether most college instruction is offered at the intermediate level because students face reading challenges.
Gorman said he has been shocked by how few entering freshmen understand how to use a basic library system or enjoy reading for pleasure.
"There is a failure in the core values of education," he said.
"They're told to go to college in order to get a better job - and that's OK. But the real task is to produce educated people." |
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| AndyPsionicFeral |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:19 pm |
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| Thankfully I am not a Grad yet so I still have time to learn. Since I'm so incompetent according to you. |
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| Keira Kane |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:34 pm |
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| bohemianbabe |
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:17 pm |
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lem hon, just a warning, the one who is fussing at you at grammar may come off a little edgy, but she means well. she and i talk a whole lot online, and while we got into a doozy of a 'discussion' here, she and i get along really well when we are chatting online.
and as for my input on the whole ordeal of college grads not being able to comprehend a book and all that stuff.......I'm a freshman, and i have grown up reading and writing complex stuff. Now I will be honest about one thing, my english scores sucked during highschool, but that was because i never really cared about them. now the most critcism i get about my fanfiction is that i use TOO MUCH FORMAL/PROPER ENGLISH. It may be true that college grads are not where they should be, but it is also true that the school system in America is failing.
it was mentioned that 145 years ago people with an 8th grade education were writing better than we write now, and that is we for those of us who have graduated from 12th grade and have had some college......i hate to say it but that 8th grade level was equivelent to our 12th grade and early college years. at that time most people did not graduate from highschool, infact many did not even have a chance to go to highschool.
now i'm going to keep quiet because i dont want to offend anyone, especially not two people that i enjoy talking to. you both have a difference of opinion, and i respect that, but your differences are what make me have different relationships with each of you
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