1. Languages
Isaac mentioned two Internet topics: alt.usage.english and alt.lang.euphoria.
I can't find these items. What is the complete URL, please?
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
2. Re: Languages
At 12:53 PM 6/10/98 -0400, W.B.R. wrote:
>Isaac mentioned two Internet topics: alt.usage.english and alt.lang.euphoria.
>
>I can't find these items. What is the complete URL, please?
They are two of the 32,000 newsgroups on the internet
(31,900 of which are about nekkid 45-year-old teens).
Anyway, you can access the newsgroups by pulling down the
Netscape menu item Window/Netscape News, select your news
server, and download the entire 32,000 group names. There
are actually some of interest, including programming topics,
recreation, and collecting groups. Once you find a group
that sounds interesting, click on it to see the current
postings.
If you don't use Netscape or Free Agent, someone else
will have to tell you how to view these groups.
Irv
3. Re: Languages
Wally:
I use www.dejanews.com sometimes to get my computer questions answered. Try
there
and see if there is a topic on languages or the English language in specific.
Perhaps others from the ListServ can give you other specific sites.
Good luck.
Frank
Irv wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 6/10/98 -0400, W.B.R. wrote:
>
> >Isaac mentioned two Internet topics: alt.usage.english and
> >alt.lang.euphoria.
> >
> >I can't find these items. What is the complete URL, please?
>
> They are two of the 32,000 newsgroups on the internet
> (31,900 of which are about nekkid 45-year-old teens).
> Anyway, you can access the newsgroups by pulling down the
> Netscape menu item Window/Netscape News, select your news
> server, and download the entire 32,000 group names. There
> are actually some of interest, including programming topics,
> recreation, and collecting groups. Once you find a group
> that sounds interesting, click on it to see the current
> postings.
> If you don't use Netscape or Free Agent, someone else
> will have to tell you how to view these groups.
>
> Irv
4. Re: Languages
From: "Wallace B. Riley"
>When I was in high school, over 50 years ago, I took *two* years of Spanish
>and learned very little of real usefulness, because both courses were only
>a dreary compilation of rules of grammar.
I took three years and a semester of Spanish, a semester of German, and
a semester of Russian in middle and high school. And read/heard just enough
Latin, French, and Japanese to recognize them fairly consistently. And
that's about all I retained of any of them is recognition. :(
I'm happy though, that the one middle-school teacher who complained
about the lack of any languages being taught below high-school level, and
volunteered to teach the semester-length classes after school, got a
promotion and permission to teach Latin and Russian. Even though she did
get stuck in high school and bound by a curriculum that dryed everything out
to grammar rules.
From: Irv Mullins
>How does that compare with the current state of education?
>(hint: don't bother looking for that state on a map.:)
Heh. No kidding. I think my old school finally upgraded it's
'Computer' class from Apple IIs this year, so it's improving. Gradually...
Maybe next year they'll get maps.
Falkon,
dodging one off-topic discussion for another.
