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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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gabski September 5 2006, 19:55:30 UTC

you probably have a better command of the english language than most americans. i cringe when i hear the average new yorker speak.

wicked_danu September 5 2006, 20:09:13 UTC

Lol.. thanks for that! I need to move to New York to cringe (and laugh secretly) too.

gabski September 5 2006, 20:32:40 UTC

you could teach english here :) half the time i dont even know what people are saying. the new york accents (homegrown ones) are pretty bad.

gabski September 5 2006, 20:50:21 UTC

I feel your pain. Accents don't cause me any trouble, nor do regional sayings (like "y'all", or "I'm fixin to...", etc), but what I can't stand is when people just butcher everything. I live in Nebraska, and for whatever reason, I hear people, even seemingly intelligent people, say things like "I seen that" or "it don't matter" or "I didn't say nothin'", ad nauseum. What's worse is that a lot of these yokels are the ones who like to yell things like "Them immigrants need to learn to talk English! I ain't 'bout to learn no Spanish just to talk to folks!" It isn't like that attitude is indicative of all Nebraskans, but I'll be damned if those who do say things like that don't make me feel like going into a lecture about the importance of not using double negatives, using prepositions after intransitive verbs (like "to talk"), and not using an object pronoun as a determiner/adjective (them immigrants). I swear, we need English teachers everywhere!

Aleks

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Test-icle one, two! dagomatik September 5 2006, 21:20:30 UTC

Best of luck on your Engrrrrish test score!!
The NASA Photo-a-day website is f**kin amazing!

xoxoxs - Daggers (Imma)

Re: Test-icle one, two! wicked_danu September 6 2006, 11:31:27 UTC

Thankies! My friend win2some gave me the link for the NASA Photo a Day website :)

I really like the name 'Dagger'! Saxxxxy!

pebbles_patio September 5 2006, 23:01:07 UTC

You write better than 80% of the americans I know...so go you. =) I'm sure that you'll pass with flying colors, my little casava melon!

xoxox,
pebs

wicked_danu September 6 2006, 11:37:53 UTC

Aw, that's a big compliment. Thanks! :)

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!

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jrpeny September 6 2006, 13:51:08 UTC

pity that the guy without the id couldnt start his exam on time...why need an ID in the first place? frauds dont do a simple exam as this

i think they made u do this test coz its a standardized one.ppl do their english exams from different boards/syllabus. and it would be difficult to compare

take care
JP

wicked_danu September 7 2006, 11:30:20 UTC

It's just one of their requirements. All official exams require some sort of ID.. our schools don't need them because they've got records of who's who. But when you take an exam at, say, the British Council, they're gonna need ID to prove that it's really you, the person whose name appears on the application, who applied for the exam.
And it's not about frauds doing simple exams.. why wouldn't frauds do such exams?

Universities should just check all or most exam boards and then spell out English requirements for all boards, so any previous exam that a prospective student might have taken don't go to waste.