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Postby Otohiko » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:56 am

Panacea I knew forever, couldn't tell you when I learned it. Oxymoron I learned in grade 11, and while postmodern was a word familiar to me for a long time I only really learned what postmodernism assumes last year.
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Postby godix » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:06 am

madbunny wrote:Oxymoron

I've known this for so long that I can not even remember learning it.

PostModern

This one I question using to test people. It's correct meaning really depends on the context. Postmodern literature, postmodern architecture, postmodern music, and postmodern art are not the same things although they all have similar features. Also the term can be used as just meaning a time frame which is a lot more loose definition than if you use it to describe an art style. So without knowing which exact meaning of postmodern you were after I'd probably end up not in the 'correct' category.

Panacea

This is one of those words I encounter so rarely that I have to sit and think for a couple seconds to remember it. Although if I heard it in a sentance the context would probably jar my memory a lot quicker than that. Most people I know will use placebo instead of panacea even though the terms aren't interchangeable. I guess the thinking is a placebo can appear to work on anything so in a kinda sorta way a placebo is a panacea. Either that or they just don't know what placebo really means.
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Postby Kalium » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:18 am

I must admit to being familiar with all three.
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Postby Arigatomina » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:53 am

madbunny wrote:Panacea

Panacea are those little white elements in chrono cross that heal any status effect! :lol: Yeah, I'm sure I knew the word before I played CC, but after playing it I'd never forget the word. I usually replace it with "cure-all" in spoken dialogue just to sound more casual. I don't think I've ever used the word panacea outside of Chrono Cross discussions. It's a word for text, not random speech.

The "PostModern" one I don't want to know. I remember pretending to study something about that in one of my history/literature/art-all rolled into one classes. I didn't like it. It was boring as crap. We had to sit still taking notes while he droned on for hours and hours about nothing interesting. I assume PostModern refers to a field after some modernist movement takes place and changes things just because Post = after. I have a vague memory of those "crap and urine on a canvas" art being considered PostModern, but I could have learned that wrong. Eck. It's an artsy culture word with bad connotations in my memorybank.

Oxymoron was an elementary grammar word. I remember loving it from the very first because it was so easy to remember - to say "that's an oxymoron!" was insulting the statement rather than the speaker. I think the little 'memory joke' was that the statement was moronic because the words oxy'd each other out. Unfortunately that was years ago - now my mother's the only one I can use that word with in casual conversation without getting a puzzled look.
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Postby madbunny » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:00 am

Truly, this is a sad day for me.

I think I need to redeem myself somehow.
You guys, give me three new words, and I'll quiz some teachers myself.
Something that would be normal to use in a sentance, but that you've gotten the puzzled look for using.
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Postby Arigatomina » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:21 am

madbunny wrote:You guys, give me three new words, and I'll quiz some teachers myself.
Something that would be normal to use in a sentance, but that you've gotten the puzzled look for using.

Droll.

I have a million of them myself, but that's because I live in the boonies surrounded by people who dropped out of highschool. It's not their fault they aren't used to hearing words they've never even seen in writing. :(
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Postby Orwell » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:11 am

I knew all three, though I double checked on panacea because besides for video games I've almost never seen the word in writing or heard it in speech.

As far as post modern, I agree with the context thing. I've personally always defined it as the attitude that is basically the civilized world anymore. What's the point, why am I here, my existence no longer revolves around merely surviving so now what do I do, I must go define myself through Myspace or by achieving fame and riches, etc. Essentially, post WWI/I.

madbunny wrote:You guys, give me three new words, and I'll quiz some teachers myself. Something that would be normal to use in a sentance, but that you've gotten the puzzled look for using.


My problem is that I get tongued tied and my thoughts run faster than my mouth does, so words get juxtaposed or I've already moved on. I also mumble and 'um' all the time because if I'm put on the spot and not relaxed in their company, I'll stand there and search for the proper words, which by that time they've given up on me.

Of course, this is when I actually open my mouth to talk. I rarely do this. I'm great for listening, I'll sit there all day if your someone I don't already know and haven't heard your personality laid out and on the cutting board. So of course my manner of speech is the same way I type online, and therefore I rarely bother with big words unless the concept I'm trying to express calls for them. Nor does it help I also live out in the boonies, and besides occasionally Oto, I almost never hear college level speech.
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Postby Orwell » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:17 am

Arigatomina wrote:
madbunny wrote:You guys, give me three new words, and I'll quiz some teachers myself.
Something that would be normal to use in a sentance, but that you've gotten the puzzled look for using.

Droll.


Every time I see this used, the sentence/context would be the same if you substituted dull, but when I look it up, I get, "having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality" and to substitute any word like that into the sentence would change the description. :?
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Postby godix » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:19 am

madbunny wrote:Truly, this is a sad day for me.

I think I need to redeem myself somehow.
You guys, give me three new words, and I'll quiz some teachers myself.
Something that would be normal to use in a sentance, but that you've gotten the puzzled look for using.

Pedantic.
Mongoloid (bonus points it they realize it has another meaning besides downs syndrome).
Narcissism.

Yes, all three are words I use on a fairly regular basis.
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Postby Arigatomina » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:01 am

Orwell wrote:Every time I see this used, the sentence/context would be the same if you substituted dull, but when I look it up, I get, "having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality" and to substitute any word like that into the sentence would change the description. :?

Isn't it great? I love using that word to describe expressions, but no one ever knows what it means. It's one of my favorite words. So small, so misunderstood and misrepresented. And when you say it out loud you get a "say what?" because most people have never heard it spoken. :lol:
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Postby SQ » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:29 am

Discern, or discernment. It's not used much, but I've always known what it means so I wouldn't understand if anyone didn't know what it meant.

You teach english, right, Madbunny? Just grab one of those vocab books and pick a word out of one of those lessons.

As for my stupid shit. Hrm. I have some stuff from Best Friends(Pet hotel), but it takes too long a preamble and isn't that funny.

So, I guess I'll go this way...

In my "Writers Workshop" class, we practically never wrote. Apparently it was for retarded people. All we did was vocab. Horribly EASY vocab, too. We had two teachers, and they would go over EVERY vocab word and give you EVERY SINGLE answer to EVERY SINGLE Test. So if you even half-listened you'd get at LEAST a B on the freaking tests. But over half the class was failing! Wtf.

The teachers made it so you had to make flash cards and draw a picture for each word. This is while I was a SENIOR in high school. This was a SENIOR class. AT first it started as extra credit, but then it became mandatory.

I never made the flash cards. I got yelled at, because it was all mandatory, and I said "I Make A's on my tests, making these index cards is not only wasting MY MONEY, it's always wasting time, and it doesn't help me at all."

She left me alone after that, but I still got zeroes. And even so, I still got an A in that class. :roll:
Gah, I have all sorts of stories involving how STUPID that class was(not the teachers, but the students) and if there were ever a doubt in my mind about how pathetic the human race and my generation was, there wasn't after I finished that damn class.

Then there was graphic design and web design. Web Design class is basically "learn tables, and then learn WYSIWYGs!" Not to mention that she made us learn Fireworks, when Photoshop was already installed on every computer. I told her Photoshop(and ImageReady) was a superior program to Fireworks, and she refused to believe me, stating she didn't know Photoshop so she refused to teach it.

Well, I guess that's kind of fine, but she shouldn't make us ONLY use Fireworks. I got points taken off because I made the exact same thing she wanted me to in Fireworks... In photoshop. Lame.

Not to mention I became her on-call tech support. I worked as a cashier at Kroger and when she came by she'd tell me her problems and I'd tell her how to solve it. Apparently some stuff I said changed how she taught her class. :roll:

Graphic desin, augh. My teacher had a habit of saying I never turned in work that I did turn in, so I, conversely, made a habit of keeping every single goddamn thing I did.

I took the class for all four credits(we're on block scheduling, so that was only two years) and by Graphic Arts 4, I was doing nothing more than turning in things I had already turned in a few semesters ago.. Because the curriculums were EXACTLY THE SAME!
WTF! Graphics arts 1 is supposed to be basic shit, and 4 advanced. While maybe the technical shit we were learning was different, all the actual graded assignments stayed the same. So that was kind of stupid.

Really cool teacher, though.
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Postby madbunny » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:15 pm

SQ wrote:You teach english, right, Madbunny?

Really cool teacher, though.


Actually I teach computers. If I was an english teacher, I'd probably pay better attention to my spelling and punctuation. (probably)
I'm supposed to teach a computers A and then a computers B class. The problem is that most of my students are not smart enough to get past computers A. So I wind up teaching all basic stuff, over and over and over again. I have a 'computer literacy criteria checklist' that the district puts out (I'll see if I can find that link), it is really basic. A lot of typing, and the ability to make some multi page documents. Even though it's super basic, I still fail over half my class almost every time. dumbasses. My class is so incredibly easy to pass. 60% of the grade is showing up and doing work, on top of that I have a 'make up day' every week that I let people who are up on their assignments play games (or edit AMVs), and those who missed one make them up. That's 20% of the week as a bonus freebie!


When summer rolls around I let people sign up for an AMV making class and computer animation.
Oh sure, occasionally I'll get someone with a brain, and I'll let them do the basic lesson for the day, and then help them with premiere projects, photoshop etc..



Ok, so we have:


Droll
Pedantic


Discern is too easy, as is Narcissism, and juxtapose.
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Postby godix » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:20 pm

madbunny wrote:Ok, so we have:


Droll
Pedantic


Discern is too easy, as is Narcissism, and juxtapose.

Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.
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Postby Beowulf » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:30 pm

I've actually never heard the word "Droll" so thats cool to know. :up:

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Postby Beowulf » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:32 pm

godix wrote:Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.


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