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Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 11.42
by Sput

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 12.13
by marksi
It took me a moment to catch that. :lol:

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 13.25
by Inspector Sands
Alexia wrote:I don't get phonics. We get kids come in the library asking to book computers, with all sorts of exotic names. When I ask them to spell them, I get "Kah Ruh Yuh Suh Tuh Ah Luh Luh" - instead of Kay Are Why Ess Tee Ay Ell Ell. I won't take What guff are they teaching them in school nowadays that they can't spell using letters?
Doing letters phonetically is fine because that's for we form letters into words and I'm sure we all learnt something similar at school - Ker-aaa-ter = Cat etc.

However when spelling out something like in your example they need to know the names of the letters and know which is the appropriate time to use which

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 16.56
by Nick Harvey
marksi wrote:It took me a moment to catch that.
Oh, I hate people who dribble!

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 17.35
by Alexia
Inspector Sands wrote:
Alexia wrote:I don't get phonics. We get kids come in the library asking to book computers, with all sorts of exotic names. When I ask them to spell them, I get "Kah Ruh Yuh Suh Tuh Ah Luh Luh" - instead of Kay Are Why Ess Tee Ay Ell Ell. I won't take What guff are they teaching them in school nowadays that they can't spell using letters?
Doing letters phonetically is fine because that's for we form letters into words and I'm sure we all learnt something similar at school - Ker-aaa-ter = Cat etc.

However when spelling out something like in your example they need to know the names of the letters and know which is the appropriate time to use which
We had Letterland in my day (anyone else 22-27ish remember that?), and see-ay-tee.

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 17.37
by Gavin Scott
Those of us ten years your senior will remember getting the strap for not knowing how to say: SEE AY TEE for cat.

And it didn't do me any harm.

*twitch*

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Wed 22 Apr, 2009 23.57
by Inspector Sands
But surely 'SEE AY TEE' is 'Seat'?

They should be learning both 'SEE AY TEE' and 'KER AAA TER' - two different things for two different purposes for the same word

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Thu 23 Apr, 2009 00.00
by Gavin Scott
Inspector Sands wrote:But surely 'SEE AY TEE' is 'Seat'?
Wuh? Maybe it is. The hell with it.

Its C A T. I know how that sounds in my head.

I've actually studied phonetics - not that its showing from this post.

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Thu 23 Apr, 2009 11.01
by LaSeandre
Alexia wrote:
Inspector Sands wrote:
Alexia wrote:I don't get phonics. We get kids come in the library asking to book computers, with all sorts of exotic names. When I ask them to spell them, I get "Kah Ruh Yuh Suh Tuh Ah Luh Luh" - instead of Kay Are Why Ess Tee Ay Ell Ell. I won't take What guff are they teaching them in school nowadays that they can't spell using letters?
Doing letters phonetically is fine because that's for we form letters into words and I'm sure we all learnt something similar at school - Ker-aaa-ter = Cat etc.

However when spelling out something like in your example they need to know the names of the letters and know which is the appropriate time to use which
We had Letterland in my day (anyone else 22-27ish remember that?), and see-ay-tee.
I had Letterland in school, and I'm much younger than you (15 to be precise).

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Fri 24 Apr, 2009 14.48
by cwathen
New weird wrong thing, well hardly new but just been reminded of it after a trek down the A38...

You're driving along a dual carriageway. In front of you are two HGVs driving behind each other at pretty much exactly the same speed. Suddenly without warning the rear lorry driver will pull out into the overtaking lane, despite only being able to move about 1MPH faster than the other vehicle. After two minutes of 'overtaking', the vehicle in the inside lane will flash his lights and slow down slightly to let the overtaking vehicle back in.

Nothing has been gained by this procedure, and a (sometimes dangerous) traffic bottleneck will have formed for a mile behind, as a free flowing dual carriageway suddenly hits a 50MPH rolling roadblock

The spectacle of watching three trucks engage in this process on a motorway would be funny were it not for them holding everyone else up.

Being that all HGV drivers would have started off as (relatively) experienced car drivers, surely they should remember that overtaking should only be attempted where it can be done quickly and easily, struggling to crawl past in this way would cause many examiners to fail a driving test.

So, I do ask the question (and I'd love it if there are some truckers here to answer it) - WHY DO LORRIES FEEL THE NEED TO OVERTAKE EACH OTHER WHEN THERE'S NO FUCKING POINT!!!

Re: Weird wrong stuff in everyday life

Posted: Fri 24 Apr, 2009 15.09
by Sput
Is it because the slower lorry is doing 69MPH and Alexia is driving the other one? ;)