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3D Megadoodoo posted:I got an M in overly long D Latin in 1997 My dear fellow Finnposter no one outside Finland understands what any of our grades mean (I got an E in Latin) (edit: in, uh, 2008) a cyborg mug has a new favorite as of 12:11 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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a cyborg mug posted:My dear fellow Finnposter no one outside Finland understands what any of our grades mean Oh, hello Ilkka.
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Mar 2, 2023 12:10
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I don't understand why anyone would ever use letters instead of numbers for grading.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I don't understand why anyone would ever use letters instead of numbers for grading. You get a solid Q for this post.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I don't understand why anyone would ever use letters instead of numbers for grading. Predates numbers. (Arabian numbers.)
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Mar 2, 2023 12:54
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a cyborg mug posted:My dear fellow Finnposter no one outside Finland understands what any of our grades mean Well I know in Latin an M is 1000 so that's pretty good
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Mar 2, 2023 13:20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It is a cooking technique, like frying. (I'm not going to read a loving Wikipedia article about it, I had an 8 in home economics!) You did so bad they moved your grades to numbers. And you didn't even get a 10! e: oh nvm everyone already pointed it out. o well
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Brawnfire posted:Well I know in Latin an M is 1000 so that's pretty good Yeah but the grade M is just an abbreviation of magna cum laude approbatur, as we all know (except those who got an I).
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I’m teaching elementary school in Germany right now and for some bastard hell reason they do grades 6 to 1, with 1 being the best. At least in Berlin. Imagine how hosed up (or German) you have to be to do that. Clearly 6 should be the best, it’s the Most Number???
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a cyborg mug posted:I’m teaching elementary school in Germany right now and for some bastard hell reason they do grades 6 to 1, with 1 being the best. At least in Berlin. Imagine how hosed up (or German) you have to be to do that. Clearly 6 should be the best, it’s the Most Number??? But A is the least letter?
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Mar 2, 2023 14:37
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Grassy Knowles posted:But A is the least letter? Exactly, stop using letter grades!!!
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Isn't A also the most letter, depending on circumstances
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Mar 2, 2023 14:55
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The ”joke” here is that different countries have different grading systems and that’s OK. Except for Denmark, which, once again, has totally hosed up everything and somehow their grades range from -3 to 12. Get a grip, Danes
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Mar 2, 2023 14:58
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Brawnfire posted:Isn't A also the most letter, depending on circumstances No that's 'S'.
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Mar 2, 2023 15:01
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Here’s my understanding of the American grades: S - Slammin’ A - Amazin’ B - Bitchin’ C -  D - drat F - Farrtt
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Mar 2, 2023 15:05
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I support educational institutions using a Devil May Cry style grading system
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a cyborg mug posted:Here’s my understanding of the American grades: We don't have S* here. Unless some schools have taken ideas from Japanese action games? *With the exception of some schools (usually elementary) that forgo to F to A system and use, like, U for Unsatisfactory, NI for Needs Improvement, S for Satisfactory, and E for Excellent.
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a cyborg mug posted:My dear fellow Finnposter no one outside Finland understands what any of our grades mean
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DrBouvenstein posted:We don't have S* here. The Japanese action games stole it from Japanese schools, so if any American schools did it they probably would be taking it from the Japanese schools and not the games
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My wife went to school in Finland. Grades in primary (elementary?) school were from 4-10. 10 being the best. Apparently 1-3 don’t exist.
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Grassy Knowles posted:But A is the least letter? Yeah that's why it's the lowest passing grade.
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Creature posted:My wife went to school in Finland. Grades in primary (elementary?) school were from 4-10. 10 being the best. Just on a lark I checked out my finished university courses on THE PORTAL (one authentication gets you logged in on about 100% of "official" Finnish websites) and whereas they used to be worth study weeks and graded 1-3, they're now worth study points, and graded 1-5?!?!? How did they translate from 1-3 to 1-5 - probably some algorithm  e: I never graduated.
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Creature posted:My wife went to school in Finland. Grades in primary (elementary?) school were from 4-10. 10 being the best. The grading system did in fact have the grades 1-3 a long time ago. However, a 4 already basically meant ”failed” in that system so they eventually just got rid of the unnecessary grades. 3D Megadoodoo posted:Just on a lark I checked out my finished university courses on THE PORTAL (one authentication gets you logged in on about 100% of "official" Finnish websites) and whereas they used to be worth study weeks and graded 1-3, they're now worth study points, and graded 1-5?!?!? How did they translate from 1-3 to 1-5 - probably some algorithm Haha, u old a cyborg mug has a new favorite as of 17:07 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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a cyborg mug posted:The grading system did in fact have the grades 1-3 a long time ago. However, a 4 already basically meant ”failed” in that system so they eventually just got rid of the unnecessary grades. Last week-end I was talking about how hosed up it was that [something, I don't remember what] was so expensive and started saying "I mean it costs [some hundred]" and everyone else shouted "DON'T SAY MARKS".
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Last week-end I was talking about how hosed up it was that [something, I don't remember what] was so expensive and started saying "I mean it costs [some hundred]" and everyone else shouted "DON'T SAY MARKS". I don’t know why those mummonmarkka prices are burned into my/our collective memory so stubbornly. I was a preteen when we got the glorious €uro and have forgotten so much of the actually meaningful stuff. Would love to remember cool poo poo like what I did with people who are now fuckin dead, for instance. Also, old phone numbers. Why the gently caress does my brain absolutely insist on hanging onto every digit of my childhood home’s landline number, a piece of information I will literally never need again in any situation?
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a cyborg mug posted:I don’t know why those mummonmarkka prices are burned into my/our collective memory so stubbornly. If you want to look at actual inflation over a longer time-span, it's very useful.
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check out the danish grading scale used from 1833 to 1963 - ug (udmærket godt = excellently good, though "udmærket" has drifted to mean more like "fine" now) - mg (meget godt = very good) - g (godt = good) - tg (temmelig godt = rather good) - mdl (maadeligt godt = moderately good) - slet (bad)
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a cyborg mug posted:Also, old phone numbers. Why the gently caress does my brain absolutely insist on hanging onto every digit of my childhood home’s landline number, a piece of information I will literally never need again in any situation? And friends/family who moved away or died decades ago. The best use I’ve found is using portions of them for unique PINs that are easily remembered. Nobody is going to be able to guess that your PIN is the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th digits of some kid you played hockey with 30 years ago.
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St_Ides posted:Nobody is going to be able to guess that your PIN is the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th digits of some kid you played hockey with 30 years ago.
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Seventeen years ago, when I worked for T-Mobile, I had predicted that phone numbers would effectively be entirely gone by 2010 and we'd all just be using the Internet to make "phone calls" to e-mail addresses instead, and also that all phone companies would be absorbed by Microsoft, Google, etc. edit for topical thing: I just realized the mask in Scream is "ghost face" and not "scream face". I thought it was supposed to resemble the dude getting yelled at in The Scream?  I mean it doesn't not resemble it. credburn has a new favorite as of 15:08 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Saw some scandinavian goons in the thread, found something recently about the nordic languages. Y'all probably know but it's still really fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MRfVHU9fr0&t=5s This channel gets guests who speak three separate languages of the same family, presents them with a related one and see if they can decipher it. In this video, we learn that Icelandic hasn't changed all that much from Old Norse compared to the other north germanic languages.
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Godzilla is just a bipedal stegosaurus
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Hmm yes, and you call him a gorilla whale despite the fact that he is clearly a bipedal stegosaurus?
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The Real Slim Shady posted:"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee" He's going to download her song on Napster and get a computer virus.
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credburn posted:Seventeen years ago, when I worked for T-Mobile, I had predicted that phone numbers would effectively be entirely gone by 2010 and we'd all just be using the Internet to make "phone calls" to e-mail addresses instead, and also that all phone companies would be absorbed by Microsoft, Google, etc. I found this while looking into it: https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3698926/original-ghostface-mask-designs-wouldve-completely-changed-scream-franchise-images/
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I've always had trouble with eating salads, because they're so, uh, not-dense. Take up a lot of plate space, kinda fiddly to eat compared to something heartier. Today I realized I can just, like, buy a bag of salad mix and eat it straight from the bag like it's chips or something. Sure, it's goony as gently caress and makes dressings an impossibility, but at least I'm eating greens now.
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Chopped salad kits were the game-changer in our household. Yes, I do prefer to have my salad cut up for me, thank you. 
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You gotta straight up eat the lettuce, though
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Bagged salad is great, especially the garden variety. It's healthy, you get different flavors and textures, and without dressing there's zero fat. You want to talk goony snack choices, last week I saw a gingerbread house kit on deep clearance, and I like gingerbread, so a box with two pounds of it plus a bunch of little bags of candy for only a dollar? Sold! Turns out they don't expect you to actually eat that stuff
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I got a gingerbread house kit on clearance for a dollar, only to find when I got home it didn't contain gingerbread or any of the ingredients to make it. Just the extra candy and little decorations for the house. It had enough gumdrops to be worth a buck (which is what gave the box enough weight for me to think it had gingerbread), but still.
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