@Mitch 1. It is under American influence, yes, but I think fees or tuitions are still affordable everywhere but in England. 2. What's the difference between fees and tuition to you?
@Mitch Why empty?
In Holland, the system is different (you really don't need much money for anything), but the education system does still favour people with educated parents a lot, and society favours people with higher education. There is a kind of chasm between the lesser and higher educated, and it's becoming more pronounced.
Just one example: I tutor kids, and poor parents couldn't afford me ever.
tuition is the cost of being taught. fee;s are for 'ancillary' things. scholarships are for tuition. I guess loans could pay for tuition or fees in the US. I don't know.
@Cerberus hmm I've heard the same for Germany, where they have three tracks: vocational, uh.. medium, and academic, but you have to choose early (10 yrs old?) and its hard to change later. and only if you know the system (like smart parents) can you get in early to the academic track
You choose between various tracks at 12, when you go to what we call intermediate school (you might call it middle-and-highschool). Although many intermediate schools have several (or all) tracks available, and in that case you try a track for 1 year, then choose which one you're going to follow for the rest of your stay there, which is until graduation.
What you need to do to get into a track is get a favourable assessment from your primary-school teacher, or score well in a test all kids take at 12.
If you're smart, your primary-school teacher will normally notice, and you will get the appropriate advice: the idea is that the tracks are solely based on intelligence or intellectual performance.
@Cerberus So in the US it's a whole different thing. You don't choose at 12, or at start of high school, or at end of high school, and not always at the beginning of college (even in the sciences you can switch within college.)
@Izanawistaria all of it. if I were from outer space and scaning all the news services, I'd think: China..kinda weird, Europe is rich but they got their (first world) problems, holy shit stay away from Venezuela, man India is poor but they're looking up.
@Cerberus Well, sure, but it wasn't meant for them... It was written for the kid who has to move mountains to get ahead. The real problem here--the advantaged thinking everything is about them or for them all the time...but some really wonderful things--not theirs at all, just a kid's...with BIG obstacles, and hopes and dreams like everybody else.
@Izanawistaria The thing they call Chicago style pizza is very good. very rich. But as someone who likes New York style pizza (thin), I consider the Chicago style to only be like pizza, but not actually pizza.
@Cerberus Toilet paper becomes narcissistic if you give it to a narcissist...or whatever they can wipe their mess on...but, generally, everybody else just considers it sh*tty or not.
@Izanawistaria Avatar meaning profile pic, I assume. A hand exerciser ball that I received from my husband on Valentine's Day, ha-ha...because I injured myself while trying not to drop a heavy suitcase on a jumpy, screaming toddler on an airplane...so not as sexy as it seems.
@Izanawistaria Yeah, American movies are on the whole pretty well made
The research universities are pretty good at the graduate level. undergrad just as good as elsewhere (modulo the large spread of quality of the students)
Guys, have you ever heard of the verb "to clobber" or "it's clobbering time" phrase? I assume the last one came from a comics book about Hulk. I wonder how well-known are this verb and phrase.
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What's the average number of words an Englishman knows?
Isn't it around 20,000 or something?
40,000?
Apparently, it's around 20,000–35,000.
And this:
> In a separate post, though, comes a surprising fact: the reading of fiction specifically is as important as reading generally [for the size of one's vocabulary]. People who read "lots" and fiction "lots" outscore those who read "lots" but fiction only "somewhat" or "not much". This is because a wider range of vocabulary is typically used in fiction than in non-fiction writing.
What word would you use in the following context:
We need to [word] him from the idea that he can buy it at that price
I believe there's a word that exactly describes the idea of getting someone to abandon an idea, and I believe it starts with "dis-". Would "divorce" work in this context?
@FaheemMitha Indeed! I very nearly double-asterisk'd **and those there are a result of policy decisons, not because they negatively affected someone else
@FaheemMitha Not too bad thanks :) Going to fracture clinic tomorrow morning to have the wires taken out (hopefully!) and will see what they have to say about it
The dork = penis reference I was searching for in my head I think came from my copy of an annotated Calvin and Hobbes; Bill Waterson got some mail about it
@Izanawistaria @FaheemMitha Thanks. Carefully :P In all seriousness, I'm using the other 8 fingers
5 on L hand and mostly ring finger in place of index on R
Dear Mr. Robot..."disinvite"...but that probably won't work..."disenfranchise"...or "disseminate"--as cancer through a colon..."discombobulate"--yep, that's it. [sbnation.com/2012/1/18/2713941/rip-sporting-bobs ]
> Cortana: "Chief, leave me!" Marine #1 (radio): "Is anyone out there?" Marine #2 (radio): "Chief!" Cortana (faintly): "Chief!" Sergeant Johnson (faintly): "Chief!" Marine #3 (radio): "Marines! Fall back now!" Sergeant Johnson (radio): "Any sign of the Chief?" Marine #4 (radio): "Negative, Sir. I think we lost him." Master Chief: (looking up at incoming mortars, pulls out bubble shield ) "Not yet."
I am writing a book and this character cares about his friends but doesn't like to show it, he acts like he doesn't care about them, but in privet he is like a dad to them. He wants to protect them but he doesn't want to ruin his reputation as a bad boy.
What word would you use in the following context:
We need to [word] him from the idea that he can buy it at that price
I believe there's a word that exactly describes the idea of getting someone to abandon an idea, and I believe it starts with "dis-". Would "divorce" work in this context?
Like I say "there are two more or two other people were arrested", dose them have any different meaning or implication?
I am writing a book and this character cares about his friends but doesn't like to show it, he acts like he doesn't care about them, but in privet he is like a dad to them. He wants to protect them but he doesn't want to ruin his reputation as a bad boy.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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