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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Etruscans [was: Re: The Coming of the Greeks]
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In article <56s5i5$k99@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
Vidhyanath K. Rao <vidynath@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>In article <56kri8$nd0@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
>Stella Nemeth <S.NEMETH@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
>>Think about it for a minute.  If the size of your personal vocabulary
>>didn't mean something, why did they test you on vocabulary and word
>>usage before they let you go to college, or for that matter in some
>>states before they let you go to high school.
>
>I am currently teaching Integral Calculus, where students get tested
>on such things as their ability to find the integral from 0 to 1 of
>1/(1+e^(2x)). Engineering and Science departments use the grade from
>such courses in deciding who is allowed to major in their departments.
>Hence someone who knows how to find such integrals is more sophisticated
>than someone who does not know that.
>
>Now, how many readers of sci.lang agree with that assessment?

	Um, like, what was the question?  (Sorry, but as language goes on
changing, um, what was the word?  Expotentally?  In any case, it's gettin
faster 'n' faster and leaving this backwoods rube, who knows only one word
for 'snow', way behind.  Must be I'm diaphosellophani--um, long-headed.
Or my pharynx hasn't dropped yet.)
-- 
	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
