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From: | Ian Hawthorn |
Subject: | Re: Swing Eighths Marking |
Date: | Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:58:48 +1200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050725) |
Markus Schneider wrote:
No it isn't the "quickest" solution. the "quickest" solution wouldHave you ever considered that your question has probably been already discussed, and that showing you the right keyword for searching is the quickest solution. have been to just give the guy a URL, as we see in another response below. But we didn't give him a URL did we. We gave him step by step... indeed it has and an almost "ready-to-use" example can be found here: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=20 instructions on how to search an archive for a keyword. Even though it was actually a lot more effort to write out those step by step instructions that it would have been to paste a URL. Do you understand the meaning of the word "condescending"? People know when they are being talked down to. An anecdote: I teach for a living. The other day a university student (well - a management student anyways) asked me in all honesty how many zeroes there were in a million because they truly didn't know. Hard to believe I know - but true. And an astounding inditement of modern education I agree. I could have expressed my astonishment loudly and vocally and made witty comments in a "condescending" (that word again) tone of voice. I could have turned this into a joke for the rest of the class. But apart from inflating my own ego and crushing the fragile ego of the student, what would that have achieved? This student trusted me enough to ask this question in the first place mostly because they knew by then that I don't play those kind of games. Think about it. |
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