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wicked_danu

Test-icle

Sep 05, 2006 17:40

I took a test today. The TOEFL, the Test Of English as a Foreign Language. I took the Computer Based Test [CBT], so I could simply type my essay and just click on answers because writing essays by hand and ticking the correct answer is too much work ( Read more... )

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win2some September 6 2006, 02:51:04 UTC

This one is super cool. Say goodbye to Pluto[nium]:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060828.html

As a writer, yeah, you're not bad ... :) Can't have you get too cocky now can we.

One would assume that people in the UK would write well, simply because ... well ... it's the birthplace of the friggin' language, but alas, 'tis not the case: complacency is more the norm, with little emphasis on achievement. Sad, so sad.

wicked_danu September 6 2006, 11:41:19 UTC

Awww, Pluto baby is so teeny tiny. Jupiter looks like such a bully.

*gasps* I'm not cocky :þ Dear God, do I appear cocky?

People in the UK are dodos. Their exam results for the IGCSE and/or the GCSE are so bad.. and that's with all the cheating they do.

win2some September 7 2006, 02:25:58 UTC

KIDDING - totally! You're not cocky at all, truly, absolutely, positively! I was just being funny ... or at least making a poor attempt at humour. We English, bad as we are at taking the GCSE, like to find humour in most everything - and, how do you know we cheat?

Yeah, love that picture. Did you click on it to better see our size in relation to the sun. I'm sure you did, but I just can't get over how tiny we are in comparison.

wicked_danu September 7 2006, 11:25:35 UTC

Aw, I knew you meant it all in humor.. I was just tryin to add to the fun by appearing surprised.

Oh, there are tons of reports every year in the papers [our papers!] that kids in England cheat in their courseworks or download entire courseworks from the 'net. And yet you people end up getting such horrifying grades ;)

I didn't click on that one.. but I went back a few days to see the solar prominence. The prominence is bigger then like four Earths put together!

win2some September 8 2006, 01:46:11 UTC

Ahhhhh ... I must admit, I was a teeny, tiny bit nervous about the response; hence the superlative assurances. Ya' never know how the written word may be interpreted, but at least now ... boundaries have been extended.

Yeah, it's sad about the horrifying U.K. grades. I think I said it before, but it's a culture of complacency, and negative peer pressure, and the reasons for it are all very complicated.

These photos-of-the-day sure make you see how fragile life is. It's such a delicate balance, and it's a pity that we're screwing it up day-by-day. We can only learn and love.

wicked_danu September 8 2006, 07:43:12 UTC

Oh totally. I've been looking through the archives of the website and I can't help but open my mouth in amazement at some of the pictures. Why do we strangle and kill each other for such a tiny part of the Universe when we could all co-exist peacefully? It's just sad that people like you and me can't fly off to some other place in another galaxy, far from the madding crowd.

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