The British burned down Washington D.C.???? Exactly 200 years ago today????

[JohnnyAnger]

Differently from what.

The use I follow assumes that something one writes may be wrongly interpreted as a mistake, and you insist, with that "[sic]", that it must be interpreted according to the way it was written, not according to some other way considered more standard and "right".

The term sic indicates that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation or meaning in the quote has been reproduced verbatim from the original. I don't think you were quoting anything previously?

 

[Keeland]

sic 1 |sik|
adverb
used in brackets after a copied or quoted word that appears odd or erroneous to show that the word is quoted exactly as it stands in the original, as in a story must hold a child's interest and “enrich his [sic ] life.”

ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘so, thus.’

 

[belamyi]

News flash belamo. No one is required to respond to you, or to read you. I did neither.

Oh, I know: in fact, after the spiel, I was going to add: I don't expect anyone to read any of this (that)... but I deemed it all superfluous... as that post of yours

Still, as contradictory as it may seem, I feel that one shouldn't skip a good idea because of the person it is associated with, and then keep on complaining about not having any clue of why this and why that

 

[belamyi]

The term sic indicates that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation or meaning in the quote has been reproduced verbatim from the original. I don't think you were quoting anything previously?

Yes, I know it is used in quoting in such cases, but either I have actually seen my use here outside of my own use, or I got so used to that idiosyncratic use of my own, that I forgot it was not standard anywhere else for, ultimately, the same use of informing readers that it must be read exactly as written

 

[xbuzzerx]

but I deemed it all superfluous...as that post of yours

This is why attempting to have a discussion with you is more trouble than it's worth. It is so much effort to reach the (lamentably few) actual points and the actual sense amidst the posturing and barb-exchange most people don't bother at all.

 

[belamyi]

This is why attempting to have a discussion with you is more trouble than it's worth. It is so much effort to reach the (lamentably few) actual points and the actual sense amidst the posturing and barb-exchange most people don't bother at all.

Why don't you just "discuss with" the ideas, damn it

So what would they expect, to have it served on a silver plate... people look for answers, but they must have the right coating and lie on the perfect tray.

 

[belamyi]

amidst the posturing and barb-exchange

Yeah, that's me, only I wasn't

but

 

[xbuzzerx]

I like you Belamo. I just think trying to discuss complex topics with you is like trying to gum open a walnut. A walnut with thorns.

 

[belamyi]

I like you belamo. I just think trying to discuss complex topics with you is like trying to gum open a walnut. A walnut with thorns.

Then what the hell do you like about me, a lobotomized me?

 

[gsdx]

Differently from what.

The use I follow assumes that something one writes may be wrongly interpreted as a mistake, and you insist, with that "[sic]", that it must be interpreted according to the way it was written, not according to some other way considered more standard and "right".

The term sic indicates that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation or meaning in the quote has been reproduced verbatim from the original. I don't think you were quoting anything previously?

This.

For instance, when quoting something: "They took there [sic] money out of the bank as soon as they red [sic] the news."

Both 'there' and 'red' are incorrect, but spelt exactly as it was in the quotation. It indicates that the quoter wasn't the one who fucked up.

 

[DonQuixote]

You weren't alone in your wondering, Neil. I didn't recall seeing the "quoted post" earlier either.

 

[belamyi]

This.

For instance, when quoting something: "They took there [sic] money out of the bank as soon as they red [sic] the news."

Both 'there' and 'red' are incorrect, but spelt exactly as it was in the quotation. It indicates that the quoter wasn't the one who fucked up.

Cf. #220

 

[xbuzzerx]

Then what the hell do you like about me, a lobotomized me?

Your creative use of the comma.

 

[xbuzzerx]

According to a recent report by the not-for-profit testing organization, ACT only 22 percent of U.S. high school students met “college ready” standards in all of their core subjects

ACT doesn't even test History. My response was not in regards to how Americans fare across the economic spectrum in math and science and reading on standardized testing vs. the international community. The fact that some ridiculously embarrassing percentage of American h.s. students can't identify the belligerents in WWI isn't because "it's not taught anymore", "the curriculum is watered down" or the other things you blamed it on. It's a combination of the way History is taught in America (many regard it as dry and too focused on memorization), and the cultural attitudes that underlie our regarding of it as a largely irrelevant chore we're forced to study but has little bearing on our present or future. This attitude is largely brought into the classroom, it is not instilled by teachers of History.

History was essentially nap time in my h.s. for everyone who wasn't a history buff. Pointing at how school funding problems or how the math and science or reading comprehension proficiency of American students is related to the quality of education overall will never explain why Americans are largely so ignorant of history. Even in schools that represent relatively well off students who are not being somehow passed through the grades with an undiagnosed inability to read, kids are largely not doing the reading in History class-- not because they are intellectually incapable of doing the reading, but because they regard it as boring and irrelevant.

You won't fix that problem with a ground-up correction of reading and math aptitude in schools, which is a separate topic.

 

[Kulindahr]

In one line? Americans don't think they have anything worthwhile to learn either from the past or (especially) from any place outside of America. That problem is more persistent and more at the root of the problem than all the school budgeting or curriculum setting details combined.

Good old "American exceptionalism".

 

[belamyi]

Your creative use of the comma.

Ah, yes, that belamian stream of consciousness

 

[SaskGuy]

 

[gsdx]

^ That almost became our National Anthem.

 

[belamyi]

 

[DonQuixote]

This is fast forwarding from The War of 1812 to that next Major (internal) skirmish -

1836 Ames 9# Cannon could be last survivor of #CivilWar Naples, NY #AmericanLegion http://www.democratandchronicle.com...0/historical-cannon-restored-naples/14881247/ …

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It just happens to be in the Little Italy section of Beautiful Upstate New York Finger Lakes Wine Country, if anyone is interested.
About an hour or so away from Watkins Glen, and the Gorges of Ithaca.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea...rop=image&fr=chr-greentree_ff&va=Ithaca+Gorge

That place that David, aka dpNice, wondered if was real - where it was, over in Post a non-porn picture, several months ago.

Not overly far from the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, NY, either.

http://www.cmog.org/

http://rockwellmuseum.org/

It's beautiful country any time of the year, but Fall Foliage is exceptional.

There's the Finger Lakes Winery Trail, too.

This concludes our slight side step to tourism Upstate, NY.