RE: Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location

["Steve Cooper" <steve.cooper@xxxxxxx>]

Indeed, until someone can tell me how answering

"Macbeth was a brave and noble man - discuss"

has in anyway enhanced my life.  I'm in agreement.

S


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I'm  with you Keith! :-)

I  remember and O'Level essay title we were given....

"Does  Thomas Hardy rely too heavily on coincidence to further the
plot of
The  Woodlanders?"

Well...my answer was "YES"....but they wanted 2000  words!

:)

M.


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey  [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 October 2001 13:03
To:  ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!"  & Location


I was absolute crap at  english...

>an indefinite possessive!

....what the hell does  that mean?

does that mean you lent something to someone and they are  keeping it
for an unknown period of time!

The vast majority of what  they "tried" to teach us in English
has
been of no use whatsoever. For all  my book reviews I read and
reported on several well written books from the  school library. The
books concerned had titles such as "Tape Recording and  Hifi"
"Stage
Lighting" etc. I learnt a great deal from those books which  has
proved extremely useful during my working life.

Needless to  say, whan I took my CSE English exam and they were asking
questions on the  Shakespere books I was supposed to have read and
reveiwed, I failed badly  (Grade 4 CSE). Having said that, I believe
it to be the ONLY time in my 41  years existance that any knowledge of
Shakespere would have been any use  whatsoever.

The same applies to what we learnt in Geography and  History. By the
time History was dropped because I couldnt fit it in with  my CSE's we
had just about got as far as the Industrial Revolution. (Why  not
start with the most recent events and work backwards). Most of the
countries we learnt about in Geography dont exist anymore but we
never  learnt where all the counties that make up the UK are.

I appreciate  that you need to have a way of quickly shortlisting CV's
but you could  easily miss someone who could be the best
programmer/engineer that you  could ever employ.

One thing I have noticed is that people who are  technically minded
and highly skilled could easily forge a prescription as  their
handwriting is often as bad or worse than a doctors. Why do you  think
we type all the time. I very rarely write things down because I cant
read them afterwards!

OK so thee are spell checkers and such like,  but using Word is a
nightmare. Most of the word processing I do is of a  technical nature
and almost everything is underlined in red. Often chunks  of text are
underlined in green indicating it is gramatically incorrect.  Word
cannot indicate how I should correct it. If it doesnt know what is
right, how does it know that what I have typed is wrong???

I feel  better now :-)

Keith

PS. My English isnt much better now....but  my gibberish has improved
a lot.



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