05-19-05  10:56, Ardith Hinton told James Bradley about People...  1B.

 How do, Ardith?

 JB>  Why you always ask the tough questions...


 AH> That's my preferred learning style.  I'm not a 
 AH> good memorizer, and I find it difficult to fit my own 
 AH> answers into little boxes... so I like the kind of question 
 AH> which has a number of possible answers, some better than 
 AH> others.  I think you can relate because you seem to be 
 AH> interested in music which gives the performer(s) an 
 AH> opportunity to experiment with various interpretations....  
 AH> ;-)
 
Hey... I wasn't complainin'. 

But doesn't your learning style dissuade you from language studies? I've
heard that if a person has a reasoning style of comprehension, they tend to
boggle over the (seemingly) irrational rules of English. I know - at least
I've heard - once you dig into the peculiarities, you can find some
rational behind the idiosyncrasies, but I had little patience to for it
when I could easily learn the rational behind Pythagoras' Theorem, and
differentiation.

 
 JB>  Do I have a case of the "Should-a/Could-a/Would-a"?

 AH> Uh-huh.  I think most people are struggling toward the
 AH> light, in  one way or another.  If you can express such doubts I can 
 AH> see you're human & you're not afraid to admit it.  That 
 AH> gives me the freedom to be human as well....  :-)

Have at it, girl! If you reach a point where I can't understand you, I'll
let you know. <-;
 
 
 JB>  (I know, the grammer needs some work. )

 AH> Since you asked, I would say it's usually
 AH> appropriate to the context from what I've seen so far.  
 AH> Your spelling of the word "grammar" needs a bit of work.  

I'm just curious if the spiel-chunker contains the proper spelling.


 AH> If you're worried about details like that, however, you
 AH> probably haven't noticed the stuff I cringe over after *my* 
 AH> messages have scanned out....  :-)))
 
Heck, NO! 

Say, could I bother you for an explanation for possessive nouns, and
whatever else deserves a trailing "'s" versus a "s'"?
My dictionary doesn't avail the topic in the punctuation guide. Feel free
to say no.
 

 AH> And as long as you don't confuse me with your mother (or
 AH> your  sister or your ex-wife or Miss Grinch in grade three, as 
 AH> many people do) I think we'll probably get along fine!  I 

Now, why would I converse with my "Mother, (or [my] sister, or [my]
ex-[fiance (...Never married.)], or Miss Grinch in grade three...)"
??? 

For the first two, (Actually three, as I have two sisters.) I pick up the
phone, and for the later two, I have *no* desire to speak with.


 AH> bring some insights I've gained from working in the
 AH> classroom to what I say here.  But I'm temperamentally 
 AH> disinclined to "correct" everything, and I learned long ago 
 AH> that it's not necessary anyway... [chuckle].
 
Far be it for me to be anything but a student. I *think* I'm more
hospitable to correction than some, and I doubt you'd be the harsh, or
condescending type. I was corrected just the other day on my grammar (-;O
Yes, even I knew the proper spelling, but I suspect the checker dissuaded
me. PS: No, the checker had it right. ) by a stranger. I suppose *if* I was corrected by a person
like Ms. Elizabeth, (Forget her last name just now. It seems rather
apropos.) my tenth grade English teacher, I'd either clam up, or try to
parallel another thing she said to professional 'rastling. (It was the only
example of irony I could recall at the time, and would likely be the way
I'd try to teach the term by example today. :-)


 AH> Ah... you recognize that there may be both good 
 AH> *and* bad in people, as well as in relationships!  It's a 
 AH> common theme in literature.  I often tried
 AH> ... with limited success... to get the idea across to my 
 AH> students.  Even adults have difficulty with it.  Now, if 
 AH> only I'd had more students like you....  :-))
 
Oh, you probably did. I was the "too lazy to give a damn unless I was
interested" type. I'm sure you've had *plenty* of me.  Once I
started on Fido, I quickly realized how poor my execution of the written
word was, and I started to clamp down on myself. It's not like I didn't
score a few "A's" on projects, but reading was never a large part
of my upbringing, so I never took a fancy to it.


RE: Beaver Cleaver
 AH> Yes, I think my parents did the best they could 
 AH> with the knowledge & resources available to them.  I may 
 AH> grumble from time to time... but I wouldn't trade my 
 AH> parents for any of the others I saw around me when I was a 
 AH> child.  :-)
 
I guess the job of being a kid is to yearn for what they don't have? I
guess I've never grown up. 
 
I still grumble (Like I needed to tell you? ;-) about the family, but now
that the turmoil of adolescence is *well* behind us, (Some of us, more than
others. 0-8) we turned out alright for the most part. Both parents had
sicknesses that neither were aware of at the time, so I consider that as
just another learning opportunity for me. One of my siblings still likes to
beat the "poor me" card to death, but that's her baggage.


 AH>  Probably....  :-)
 JB>  Go with what you know! 

 AH> With the proviso that knowledge is expandable, yes....  ;-)

Perfunctory: People often loose it, because they don't use it. )-:


... perfect pitch by correspondence... Now *that's* a perfect pitch!

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