Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for April 23, 2010

Well, there’s learning & there’s learning.

“Learning” – now that’s a gerund!

Why engineers take English: instructions have to be clearly written. Now if we could get the Chinese to write English correctly………….

The answer to the kid’s question is, “It depends entirely on where you work!”

As for Chinese English, I once bought a small electronic stopwatch made in China. Part of the operating instructions read as follows:

“Then pressing B once by once.”

I remember having to memorize a passage from “Hamlet” in high school. About 40 years later I was actually able to bring it up during the course of a normal conversation….

The lack of learning would surprise many of you. Visit a local K-12 school and then bug your local school board. America needs less time on computers and more time learning. […sheepishly grinning over my rapid fire posting tendencies…]

That’s cause its Shakespeare Day today rw1h

Did somebody say “Hamlet”? That’s my cue…

Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix’d with baser matter: yes, by heaven! ”gerund: 1: a verbal noun in Latin that expresses generalized or uncompleted action; 2: any of several linguistic forms analagous to the Latin gerund in languages other than Latin esp. the English verbal noun in -ing that has the function of a substantive and at the same time shows the verbal features of tense, voice, and capacity to take adverbial qualifiers and to govern objects.”

How true I never used a 1/4 of what I learned in college on the job.