It's not that hard, any day you wake up you can change. Things done in the past, are in the past. Change is something that happens going forward.
What are we tommarrow mourning?
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xTopGun
Buckeye
my own thoughts are that the writers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, while not the most educated men of their day might be considered Rhode Scholars by the current generation's standards.
I recall a few years ago seeing an 8th grade final exam that my father had to take back around 1932(?) and admittedly I think I got about a 30% on it. Granted, times have changed, no real need of Latin, the history of Russia or the likes, etc., but the disciplines of how to learn and why seem to be lost. jmo
and I ain't gett'n rich off it .....Or, maybe I'm just getting dumber with age - anything is possible
I totally agree that they were extremely smart and insightful ... but back then you were not it seems criticized and condemned if you did not follow the rules, at least the ones some of my teachers used.. usually with a heavy meter stick to the back of the hand.
In 7th grade I had an English teacher who was evil there is no other way to describe her... a number of years later I was in college and roomed with a guy who also had her and he said he got our counties weekly newspaper just so he could check the obituaries and hope to see she had died.
In 7th grade I had an English teacher who was evil there is no other way to describe her... a number of years later I was in college and roomed with a guy who also had her and he said he got our counties weekly newspaper just so he could check the obituaries and hope to see she had died.
protoolman
Service-Sixer
You guys do know when the federalist papers and such were written by the founding fathers the were no formal spelling rules etc., right? I found that out after reading the original Journals of Lewis and Clark. They didn't spell consistently even from day to day! Most spelling and composition rules especially in this country were developed in the interim.
As a prior educator, you do realize that academia is the House built by those that never needed to work, or those that couldn't get any other job. Once upon a time only clerics got enough education to read or write. Nowadays most Muslims are only taught to read or write via the Quran and Sharia law. Knowledge is Power!
Damn M118LR I actually not only understood that I agree with it.
Two examples... Alexander Hamilton started out as a clerk in an import business on the island he grew up on at about age 14, after about a year the owners turned the business over to him. There was a guy up in the northeast back in the 1800's who was a clerk in a store who was allowed to borrow books from the libraries of the wealthy in town... they actually gathered up money to let him sail around the world to do research and correct some of the mistakes Isac Newton had made in figuring out celestial navigation... his name was Bowdich. All of that is way above my pay grade though.
Two examples... Alexander Hamilton started out as a clerk in an import business on the island he grew up on at about age 14, after about a year the owners turned the business over to him. There was a guy up in the northeast back in the 1800's who was a clerk in a store who was allowed to borrow books from the libraries of the wealthy in town... they actually gathered up money to let him sail around the world to do research and correct some of the mistakes Isac Newton had made in figuring out celestial navigation... his name was Bowdich. All of that is way above my pay grade though.
Hmmm, is that like 'free beer tomorrow'? And of course, we all are twice removed from yesterday.
The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
Who is Tom Marrow ? :unsure:
Most of the folks I done it to are dead.
spell check is your friend
Most of the time my spell check correction program just changes the word to what ever it thinks is best.
I still can't figure out why every time I type, " a Sig" it will change it to "an Sig"
I have discovered something useful in the past year, and yes I know I'm slow.
I can ask Siri how to spell a word and she will actually answer with the correct spelling as long as she understands my 'Southern Pronunciation" and not like my high school teachers, does not say, "look it up in the dictionary" just totally griped the hell out me for the obvious reason.....
I still can't figure out why every time I type, " a Sig" it will change it to "an Sig"
I have discovered something useful in the past year, and yes I know I'm slow.
I can ask Siri how to spell a word and she will actually answer with the correct spelling as long as she understands my 'Southern Pronunciation" and not like my high school teachers, does not say, "look it up in the dictionary" just totally griped the hell out me for the obvious reason.....
The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
my 1st professor, whom I despised since he rarely gave anyone a passing grade on anything, did something similar. So, I wrote a paper describing him as being what I felt was a "schizophrenic psychopath". I'm not at all sure whyAnyway, the next professor was cool as all get out and I passed easily... I found that worked on certain types of bosses too . . . . .
I tried that. Usually all that happened was getting thrown out, or fired, AND thrown out.
The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
I u
I used to listen to that group, until the Clintons ruined it for me.
xTopGun
Buckeye
that's when I started playing by their rules $$$$$$$$
Ain't he an Old Golfer that Won the OPEN in its early years? Wait spell check it's Morris.
They told me, "Yesterday is a canceled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash." Then they asked me which I would rather do business in. Sadly, because the way we do business has changed, I think most younger people wouldn't get it. I wonder how many people under thirty even know how to write a cheque.
