[Ads-l] annals of acronymic etymythology

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 2 21:32:04 UTC 2018


OMG. Age of ignorance, age of ignorants, age of ignorant rants. "Bless me,
what DO they teach them in those schools?"

Mark Mandel

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 3:06 PM David Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> Oh, yes. That's just the first question. The rest of the class period
> consists of using exercises in using online dictionaries for the stuff that
> Google doesn't tell you.
>
> Also, in every class there are number who have never checked a book out of
> a library and don't know how to use call numbers to find books on the
> shelves. Some don't even know you can check books out of the library. So in
> our library sessions, that's always part of the activity.
>
>

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