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kimchikowboy
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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While searching for something else, I came across this tonight:
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| PARADIGM was the word most frequently looked up in 1998 in the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary. Some other words frequently looked up, besides obscene words, were UBIQUITOUS, ESOTERIC, OXYMORON, SERENDIPITY, HUBRIS, OBSEQUIOUS, and ECLECTIC. At the end of 2000, a frequently looked up word was CHAD. (Its modern meaning is in the MWCD10, but not the OED2.) |
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words3.html
So, to find this thread, I did a search for "obsequious."
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| Fine, but my point (perhaps fallacious) was that presumably a university teacher here would have a better vocabulary than Joe at Ding Ding Dang. |
Fallacioning Joe's Ding Ding Dang aside, the search yielded a surprising number of results from posters. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| I'm proud that I don't know what 'obsequious' means. |
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Sad, according an old prof at an American university who once told me that undergraduates these days are very much unlike those of three decades ago: nowadays young adults don't feel at all bad about being ignorant about something, and, in fact, are prone to criticize any piece of knowledge they didn't already know. He said a book should be written about it. |
Your old prof could write a book. The title of this book should be "Boring Things That Nobody Wants to Know About". |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Hoh-kay.
Week 3: They are in shock. The guys are convulsing on the floor, the girls are crying in the hall. I've tried to be supportive but fair and it's all falling apart. So are the students. I don't give them much longer. Man, this stuff is harder than the stuff I read in fourth year. Canadian education system for ya's.
Anyone else? |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
Hoh-kay.
Week 3: They are in shock. The guys are convulsing on the floor, the girls are crying in the hall. I've tried to be supportive but fair and it's all falling apart. So are the students. I don't give them much longer. Man, this stuff is harder than the stuff I read in fourth year. Canadian education system for ya's.
Anyone else? |
hahaha serves them right. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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I attended a workshop this weekend to learn about TOEFL, specifically, ibt. I was quite surprised by how tough this sounded.
My school has a book with the CD, I'm planning on checking it out just to take a practice test. I thought it would be interesting to see what it's like to take the test. |
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