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« Reply #60 on: October 15, 2005, 02:39:07 PM »

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Yes.  I read it over last summer for English and it was bearable.  If you can get past the 'old-style' diction, you'll be fine.
its actually not that terrible but as I said before it hasn't really endeared itself to me. not a bad plot though


Speaking of which, one "old style" English book i actually enjoyed was Wuthering Heights, that was pretty cool
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« Reply #61 on: October 15, 2005, 07:52:25 PM »

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trig, modulus, stats, intergration, areas of curves rotated about the x-axis...bleh i get the rotation stuff and thats about it
sounds like calculus to me. Cheesy   Yay for under division math!!! Tongue
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« Reply #62 on: October 15, 2005, 11:28:56 PM »

apparently the american system uses lots af constants due to your messy choice of measuring
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« Reply #63 on: October 15, 2005, 11:35:51 PM »

I think we should switch to the metric system...

Why do we call it the English system when England doesn't even use it?
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« Reply #64 on: October 15, 2005, 11:49:51 PM »

it's call "standard" Wink
in physics and other sciences we use metric...cuz it ownz yo
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« Reply #65 on: October 16, 2005, 12:01:34 AM »

miles, feet, mph, inches, its wierd yet schools teach in mm,cm,m all the way from year 1 and we still go about measuring in miles
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« Reply #66 on: October 16, 2005, 01:13:39 AM »

mole aren't you in europe somewhere? where they measure in kilometers...or are you just commenting on our crappy country?
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« Reply #67 on: October 16, 2005, 05:13:56 AM »

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it's call "standard" Wink
in physics and other sciences we use metric...cuz it ownz yo
We call it english here... Minnesota is breaking away I guess..
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« Reply #68 on: October 16, 2005, 12:41:25 PM »

no i live in the UK, so in school and doing mechanics or what have you outside in industry, everyone uses mm, cm... but in everyday life ask someone how far away something is and theyll tell you in miles or yards, ask how  heavey they are and youll get an answer in stone and pounds, then hieghts in feet and inches...... wierd isnt it?
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« Reply #69 on: October 16, 2005, 04:48:32 PM »

what is stone?
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« Reply #70 on: October 16, 2005, 04:51:17 PM »

14lbs is one stone
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« Reply #71 on: October 16, 2005, 06:03:39 PM »

never heard of stone, but yea that is weird. the metric system rocks and all but its like another language, you are just translating it into what you know and are familiar with. you could say 40 meters, and i wouldn't have a good estimate on how far that is. kinda like with time, i hate military time because all i do is convert it to what i already know..
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« Reply #72 on: October 16, 2005, 06:07:39 PM »

you mean a 24 hours clock? like right now its 18:30? i always work in that, helps that all the clocks in my house bar 1 work that way(digital not analogs  <_< )
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« Reply #73 on: October 16, 2005, 06:13:47 PM »

12:13 right now!
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« Reply #74 on: October 16, 2005, 10:23:06 PM »

I hate having to worry about if it’s AM or PM, but in “military time” (universal time) I don’t have a good feel of what time it is…17:00…just by looking at it I can’t tell it’s 5:00, but I automatically know it’s PM…
I don’t work with time enough to become familiar with it.
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