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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 14:22:08 GMT -5
Typing two spaces after a period is the proper thing to do. Not so much a lie as completely outdated in the computer age. They were super adamant about that in college too so now I can't help but do it! HELP MEEEEEEEEEE
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Post by Cyno on Feb 22, 2012 14:24:59 GMT -5
I'm so glad I took copy editing classes in college. The professor beat it into our heads that one space is what you do. Of course, I fall back into the habit of two spaces every so often.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 22, 2012 14:35:36 GMT -5
Just to make a point, but if you are someone who submits papers to journals for publication the writer's instructions often include a requirement to use two spaces. Fail to follow any individual instruction and your submission get rejected (not that your submissions don't get rejected once or twice anyways, but another rejection for something stupid is just infuriating).
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Post by Kev The Omniscient on Feb 22, 2012 15:15:48 GMT -5
Even the red Skittles? Especially the red Skittles.
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Post by ibdude on Feb 22, 2012 15:37:28 GMT -5
The whole two space thing is what I do when I have to write papers for a class. It takes up more space so I can make the required amount of pages.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Feb 22, 2012 19:34:05 GMT -5
Just to make a point, but if you are someone who submits papers to journals for publication the writer's instructions often include a requirement to use two spaces. Fail to follow any individual instruction and your submission get rejected (not that your submissions don't get rejected once or twice anyways, but another rejection for something stupid is just infuriating). What? That makes no sense. Why would an actual journal, as in the people who pretty much set typography rules, require two spaces? There is literally no reason for two spaces if you're not using a typewriter. Why do they do that? Columbus discovered America. Or any European discovering America. Hey teachers, fyi, people lived in America before the Europeans came over. It was already discovered. For Californians, "California Missions were awesome places! Here let's go on a field trip and talk about how cool the Mission is! So that years later if/when you learn the truth about Missions you're horrified that you ever stepped foot in one!" This one varies, and I think they're doing it a lot less now from what I've heard.
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Post by bogey316 on Feb 22, 2012 20:31:12 GMT -5
Typing two spaces after a period is the proper thing to do. Not so much a lie as completely outdated in the computer age. I always use two spaces. It looks "cleaner" to me. ::shrugs::
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 22, 2012 20:47:12 GMT -5
What? That makes no sense. Why would an actual journal, as in the people who pretty much set typography rules, require two spaces? There is literally no reason for two spaces if you're not using a typewriter. Why do they do that? That's the way they learned how to do it, so that's what they demand.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Feb 22, 2012 20:50:18 GMT -5
What? That makes no sense. Why would an actual journal, as in the people who pretty much set typography rules, require two spaces? There is literally no reason for two spaces if you're not using a typewriter. Why do they do that? That's the way they learned how to do it, so that's what they demand. But it's wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 20:51:08 GMT -5
Oh, editing ticks me off. If you go back to Strunk and White, it is correct to write the basketball players's locker room and incorrect to write the basketball players' locker room but no one writes it correctly and Word marks it as wrong. Yet, we adhere to a bunch of other rules from The Elements of Style.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 22, 2012 20:51:52 GMT -5
I'm just glad the Associated Press isn't made of a bunch of crusty old fogies who recognize how important space economy is.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 22, 2012 21:12:00 GMT -5
Skittles are AIDS, you learn something new everyday
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Feb 22, 2012 21:12:53 GMT -5
Cursive being worth a damn was a big one for me as well.
Another one was during middle school, when the teachers and staff were constantly trying to get us to work hard by saying "When you get to high school, no one is going to baby you! The teachers will expect you to do things by yourself, and you won't get any extra help from them!"
Then I actually entered high school, and over the next four years met some of the most supportive and involved teachers I'd ever had in my childhood. I'm pretty fortunate in that I got dealt a pretty good hand in high school, as far as teacher quality goes. But it just made the scaremongering I heard in middle school all the more ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 21:25:26 GMT -5
That high school would prepare you for college. Bullshit. How does taking eight classes a day, five days a week prepare you for a college schedule where you might have three classes on Monday and Wednesday, two classes on Tuesday and Thursday, and one class on Friday? Or, one class and one lab Monday, three classes Tuesday and Thursday, and two classes on Wednesday? Plus, I used all of 5% of what high school taught me to get my degree.
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Post by moneyman20 on Feb 22, 2012 21:28:14 GMT -5
That high school would prepare you for college. Bulls***. How does taking eight classes a day, five days a week prepare you for a college schedule where you might have three classes on Monday and Wednesday, two classes on Tuesday and Thursday, and one class on Friday? Or, one class and one lab Monday, three classes Tuesday and Thursday, and two classes on Wednesday? Plus, I used all of 5% of what high school taught me to get my degree. Was going to post this. "We're going to make you go to class 5 days a week from 7-3(Or 4 depending on the district)....so you can be ready for when you only have class on Tuesday and Thursday from 8-12."
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 22, 2012 21:32:04 GMT -5
I'll throw another vote in for the "importance" of learning to write in script (or cursive as everybody else seems to call it).
I remember some of the English grammar rules I was taught in school that turned out to be total BS. Things such as not ending a sentence with a preposition or saying "Bob and I" instead of "me and Bob". For those that don't know, these rules are for LATIN, and Latin derived languages. They exist because those statements sound awkward as all hell in those Latin languages. However they sound perfectly fine in English and there are no grammatical rules against their use in English.
I also remember a video about teen pregnancy I watched in High School. It should be noted I went to a Catholic high school. I'm highly ashamed of that fact by the way. But anyways, the gist of the video was that if a teenage girl got pregnant, she should immediately marry the father. And if the father won't marry her for some weirdly confusing reason about how the military school he applied to won't accept married teenagers, then she should immediately give the baby up for adoption. Even if they can technically still be together, just not formally married, and can get married after he finishes school. Did I mention this was really confusing? Oh, and stupid? And insulting? And I was shown this in 1996?
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 22, 2012 21:37:04 GMT -5
Just to make a point, but if you are someone who submits papers to journals for publication the writer's instructions often include a requirement to use two spaces. Fail to follow any individual instruction and your submission get rejected (not that your submissions don't get rejected once or twice anyways, but another rejection for something stupid is just infuriating). What? That makes no sense. Why would an actual journal, as in the people who pretty much set typography rules, require two spaces? There is literally no reason for two spaces if you're not using a typewriter. Why do they do that? Columbus discovered America. Or any European discovering America. Hey teachers, fyi, people lived in America before the Europeans came over. It was already discovered. For Californians, "California Missions were awesome places! Here let's go on a field trip and talk about how cool the Mission is! So that years later if/when you learn the truth about Missions you're horrified that you ever stepped foot in one!" This one varies, and I think they're doing it a lot less now from what I've heard. Well it's not like they don't spend a significant amount of time teaching about the Native Americans. I don't see how anybody could be mislead by the discovery of America really, it's one of the first pieces of history that children learn.
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Post by crash1984 on Feb 22, 2012 21:39:48 GMT -5
The fact that schools still teach cursive writing is beyond me. I write bad but you can at least make out my print. My cursive looks like a bunch of lines. From 3rd grade on you had to write in cursive and was told that it was because they do not take anything in print in upper grades. From 6th grade onward I never recall hearing a teacher say we had to write in cursive. Furthermore how often do you see things wrote in cursive save for signatures and a few logos?
Also I had a teacher that once said that there was a problem with the maps we were using and South Carolina also bordered Tennessee. Only thing is that it does not.
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Post by Sephiroth on Feb 22, 2012 21:43:08 GMT -5
My drivers ed teacher told me that parallel parking was a very important skill. I have never parallel parked once since I got my license.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 22, 2012 21:47:43 GMT -5
I also had a teacher in high school who claimed after the fall of the Soviet Union that Russia moved its capital city from Moscow to Minsk. She apparently completely overlooked the fact that Minsk WASN'T EVEN IN RUSSIA TO BEGIN WITH.
Plus I think once you get to the high school level that closed book tests are a joke. If they truly are trying to prepare you for the real world, then they should teach you how to use research materials and how to verify your work with source materials. A closed book test in high school or college is like saying "when you graduate and get a job, the employer will give you a task, lock you in a room all by yourself until you complete the task and not let you use any outside reference materials to make sure you complete the task successfully. And he'll dock your pay for every mistake you make". It's just absurdly stupid.
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