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10-12-2006, 09:13 PM | #16 |
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Sean McMullen..... now go away....
@Aliantha..... is the Oz system reaaly a bad as that? (that wasn't a typo... I type with a manc accent). It's getting that way here in the UK, where the criteria for excellence is how many tick-boxes you ticked rather than how many kids you inspired.
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10-13-2006, 05:47 AM | #17 |
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I gave you one Buster.
Jay, I think there are a lot of problems with the bureauracracy involved in the education system these days. It's really quite ridiculas.
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10-13-2006, 10:55 AM | #18 | |
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10-13-2006, 07:59 PM | #19 |
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Glad I'm not a spelling nazi.
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10-14-2006, 12:46 AM | #20 |
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But maybe your high school English teacher wishes you were?
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10-14-2006, 01:22 AM | #21 |
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Actually I did very well in English in school. I guess I just have never made the mistake of thinking I'm perfect...in anything.
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10-18-2006, 06:09 PM | #22 | |
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10-18-2006, 08:22 PM | #23 |
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busterby asked if anyone knew about a writer who wrote about the 'early days' in Australia . The early days in Australia were about 40,000 years ago , but the Aborigines did not write in our modern sense .
I therefore take it that busterby means to refer to the early COLONIAL days in Australia . If so , you should read Henry Lawson . 'The Drover's Wife' is perhaps his best short story , and is seen as an Aussie classic . There is a snake in the house , and the husband ( the drover ) is absent . The drover's wife is sunburnt and hardy , and there are children in the house . The snake scene is described in the present tense . The writing may be clumsy sometimes, but it rings true and clear . It is the beginning of white Australian literature . |
10-18-2006, 08:26 PM | #24 |
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P.S. sorry about the 'y' , busterb . 'Busterb' should rhyme with 'do not disturb' . No why (?) .
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10-18-2006, 08:59 PM | #26 |
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Perhaps you should be grateful for the information I gave you ?
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10-18-2006, 09:57 PM | #27 |
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Well thanks and I have it saved to lookup. BUT rhyme ??
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