[etni] Re: scouts, army
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- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:44:14 +0200
From: Richard Steinitz - richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx
But why not get things right to begin with? Otherwise we end up
with 4 different spellings of Caesaria (I've counted), NatBag Airport
and other linguistic rubbish. It might (?) not be important for the
test in question, but if you're going to teach a subject,
teach the terminology correctly.
And I think we've beaten this horse to death now ...
Richard
You wrote:
>why is it so important to get the translations exactly right? as a
>tester, if a student said to me "i was a leader in the scouts" or
>"i was a guide in the scouts", would that change his grade as
>long as i got the meaning? and would he have to find out if i
>was american or british before deciding which word to use in
>his oral exam? and if he said "i want to be an officer in the
>army and head a battalion", or "a division" what difference
>would that make to me as a tester? aren't we carrying things
>a bit too far and overloading the kids with unnecessary
>terminology? better they should be able to speak w/o
>basic grammar mistakes!
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