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If you don't mind my asking, about how old are you? Or rather, how old were you when you first started teaching? Do you see yourself working at the college you're at now for the rest of your teaching career?
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This is a great thread. How would you describe your teaching style, Brainworm? Being that you teach at a small liberal arts college, I assume you favor a conversational approach over a more lecture-based one, but more than that...?
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May 7, 2009 02:37
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Thanks oodles for all the answers so far, Brainworm. This thread rocks my fictional pantyhose. What are your personal feelings on socializing with students? Relatedly, are you one of those professors who will invite students to their houses for class discussion over lunch/dinner? Why is the above sentence so ugly? What is your favorite board game?
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Brainworm posted:lots and lots of yummy words Brainworm posted:Another crackrock adventure is verb conjugation in the subjunctive mood -- the conjugation changes, but how it changes seems absolutely random. "If I were in your shoes" shifts from singular (was) to plural (were), but "it's time we bought new carpet" shifts to the past tense. But the only way we'll frog march that pointless irregularity out of common use is if ESL students crash passenger jets into MLA headquarters. What are the rules for who and whom in a compound sentence that has a second verb for which who/m is supposed to be the nominative? For instance: "I tackled George, Bob, John, Isaac, and Samantha, all of who(m) sought to suck on my toes." Whom seems to be more commonly used, but Ayn Rand and Orson Scott Card (whom I cite for their publishedness, not skill), at least, seem to favor who when the word is pressed into service as a subject. Lastly, while I don't have a specific question for this one, would you mind talking a bit about hyphen usage? I'm terrified that I overuse them, but at the same time I'm fairly certain that I only use hyphens when it's technically correct to do so, while the rest of the civilized world seems to hardly ever use the things. e: Oh, and why does God hate the Oxford comma? Fast Moving Turtle fucked around with this message at 01:06 on May 27, 2009 |
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exactduckwoman posted:"Whom" there is the object of a preposition ("of") while "all" is the subject proper. Brainworm posted:Exactduckwoman has the who/whom issue nicely sorted. But I'd like to bury it even if the body's still twitching. I never use "whom" for the same basic reasons I never use "one." Both are too precious even for formal writing. Josh Lyman posted:My understanding is that putting ending punctuation inside quotes is a British convention, whereas putting it outside quotes is an American convention, or at least up to the publisher. Sir Worm, do you have a favorite passage in Shakespeare?
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May 28, 2009 04:03
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Somehow this thread fell off my bookmarked threads list! I have a lot of catch-up reading to do. Related to these last few questions, though, how might one go about becoming a faster reading? Or is reading/practice the only way?
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Jun 21, 2009 18:38
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Would you mind going into more detail in regards to stopping subvocalization? It may just be that it's so inextricably tied up in my thought processes that I can't imagine reading without it, but... well, I very literally can't imagine reading without it. If I don't subvocalize, it seems that I'm simply moving my eyes across the page with no comprehension whatsoever because I have no limit to my speed. In other words, it seems that if I don't subvocalize, I still move my eyes across the lines, but far too rapidly to garner any sort of understanding.
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Brainworm posted:I got more comfortable reading without subvocalizing by quickly passing my eyes over a sentence, closing them, and reciting the sentence from memory. And what finally convinced me that I was doing something right was that I had slightly better recall without subvocalizing than with, even though non-subvocalized reading felt a bit unnatural.
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Hullo, Brainworm. I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind giving me your general thoughts on Measure for Measure? It's come up a few times in the thread, but really only in passing, and I'm curious what you think about it other than that it's got a lame ending.
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Brainworm posted:Well, we call Measure for Measure...
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