College admissions need to be politically changed rather than increasing competition!

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<p>Why don’t you be my grammar teacher for a day if you sound so expedient and genuine enough to be able to indentify where my errors need to be rectified? I’m pretty sure I understand what I’m at least trying to say, thus being able to point them out in a corrigible direction.</p>

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<p>You were sort of in a digression in your previous comment, although not full. I won’t vow to discredit on that one. My idea is based on some impartiality although can’t be gauranteed by colleges themselves. I will say this once again for someone like you who want to exacerbate this discussion into a conflict: I considered it, but disagree if you like to because nobody here will try to coerce you into the information to concur. Fine if the government do not hold much authority to intervene in private schools!</p>

<p>I’m happy that my own thread will get locked because some people here can’t even walk into a post on the forum with their own modest ideas, with at least a calmed temperance.</p>

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<p>I respectfully decline.</p>

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<p>A tip: one cannot “sound” expedient.</p>

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<p>I did not dispute that you were able to understand what you were trying to say; rather, your style of writing makes your posts difficult for anyone else to comprehend.</p>

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<p>:confused: What the…?</p>

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<p>All right, so we agree. Why the exclamation point, then?</p>

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<p>Translation, please?</p>

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<p>Why waste your time at first?</p>

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<p>You sounded so completed when you brought out your disputes. </p>

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<p>I have a good writing tendency, but sometimes I’m not always excellent.</p>

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<p>Figure it out yourself. You’re going to Harvard, so I suppose you’re smart enough to comprehend it, right?</p>

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<p>Completely unwarranted. Besides, I don’t like to waste my time on tomfoolery.</p>

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<p>Another word used in poor context. Where did you learn your English?</p>

<p>Anyway, I don’t see what need there is for such a belligerent tone. You still haven’t answered my original question/assertion: is your belief in the necessitation of such a policy founded on moral dirigisme or not?</p>

<p>Seachai, Not trying to flame or start an argument, but can you confirm that english is not your first language? If it’s not, I’m impressed with your efforts to conduct a civil debate/discussion on a subject that you are obviously concerned about. </p>

<p>If it is your first language, dude, too many words crammed in between periods. You write like a politician; a lot of big words signifying nothing. As I stated earlier, your downfall in trying to get into one of those “top colleges” had to be the essay.</p>

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<p>Good job presenting an individual stupefaction.</p>

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<p>What word? I’ve been learning English since I was born in this country. Although it took me a little while to understand it during my childhood, I’m pretty sure I can excel at least on the same level as you; if not, better.</p>

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<p>Haven’t I answered it already? I considered it and it might be a good idea, but I’m fine with people disagreeing with the theory. Yet, some impotent fools still come over and ambush my belief when I’ve already been told “idealistic concept” enough.</p>

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<p>My parents were born from Asian countries, but I was raised in America where I got my education since pre-school.</p>

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<p>Nah, I didn’t really spend that much effort into the essays. But are you advicing me that less difficult words can be better?</p>

<p>It’s just that too many people apply nowadays that make it harder to get into.</p>

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<p>For a self-proclaimed genius, you’re pretty slow; if you had answered the question already I wouldn’t have asked.</p>

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<p>…All right, you don’t understand the question. Moral dirigisme = the government has an obligation to do some things because they are fundamentally moral. I had simply asked if this is why you felt the government should implement your policy. Apparently, the answer is yes, though due to your lack of clarity in your discourse, I could be wrong.</p>

<p>/exitthread</p>

<p>– Disregaurding CasaAtreides & all other flamers from here.</p>

<p>^A flamer is someone who disagrees with you?</p>

<p>Humph. So much for civil, rational, and calm discourse.</p>

<p>^ You know what, since everyone will get more irrational, I guess I’ll quit for the sake of any further belligerency.</p>

<p>Bye.</p>

<p>You have a terrible grasp of the english language.</p>

<p>The problem Seachai is twofold. To begin with, your grammar is just wrong. I’ll give an example.</p>

<p>“My parents were born from Asian countries.”</p>

<p>The words “born” and “from” cannot be used together in this manner. You could either say “My parents were born in Asian countries” (by no means an excellent sentence, but at least one that makes sense,) or you could say “My parents were from Asian countries.” You can’t combine the two.</p>

<p>Secondly, your misuse of obscure and esoteric words is indicative of improper use of a thesaurus. The problem with using a thesaurus to replace a “difficult” word with an “easy” one is that the two are not always interchangeable. Once again, an example.</p>

<p>" love how purely ignorant kids like you make an assumption out of someone else in order to create further truculence and garbage talk. Personally, since you were the smart person to even make the even the odds, I suggest you bring your digression to somewhere else before you embarrass yourself further by making another fallacious premonition."</p>

<p>First, you don’t create truculence. In the way that you’re attempting to use it, you most likely meant the noun, meaning something to the effect of “cruel actions.” You don’t “create cruel actions.” You influence/inspire/compel cruel actions, you act cruelly, but you don’t “create” cruel actions. If I were to say that the Americans created attacks in the middle east, or created cruel actions in the middle east, you would correct me. My guess is that you originally had different words than truculence and create in place, and used the thesaurus to enhance the sentence. </p>

<p>Bring is a transitive verb. Transitive verbs are derived from basic verbs; in this case, bring is the causative transitive form of come. Many people learning English as a second language can confuse the words “bring” and “take.” For an easy rule, try changing your sentence to incorporate the phrase “make […] come” or “make […] go.” You should ask yourself, “do I want to say ‘make your digression come elsewhere’ or 'make your digression go elsewhere.” The latter sentence, while imperfect, sounds much better. You want the digression to “go,” not “come” (obvious jokes aside.) </p>

<p>Premonition applies specifically to future events. It is very similar to a prediction, differing primarily in the participle usage. You make/have made a prediction, and have/have had a premonition. Regardless, either would be wrong in this case. The first poster stated that you only got accepted into a community college. This is an inference of theirs, based on what they knew about you from your previous posts. They aren’t predicting that you’ll only be accepted into a community college; they’re drawing an inference on past events from presently available information. You don’t have “predict” that your mother and your father met at one point in the past; you infer, or realize (though the latter is not meant to be interchangeably used with the former two) the logical conclusion of two axioms.
1.) you exist.
2.) all known cases of human existence were caused by sperm meeting egg.
You of course could be mistaken; you’ve drawn a third assumption into the mix, that sperm and egg meeting means the individual producers met. This of course is an erroneous conclusion; there are plenty of instances of egg and sperm meeting without their producers doing the same, but I digress.
Similarly, the other poster has made an inference, based on available information. However, he has not had a premonition in regard to your future. If he had said “based on your poor grammar, and the subpar use of your vocabulary, I predict that you won’t do well at university.” He may have had a premonition to this effect as well, (though I doubt there was a foreboding undertone to his thoughts on your future performance.) Regardless, I think the point has been beaten into the ground; there can be no premonitions of past events.</p>

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“[…]bring your digression to somewhere else.”
I already covered the misuse of bring, but the “to” is bugging me. When you use “to” to signify a location, it needs to be a specific place. I’m going to Cedar Point. This works because I’m referring to a very specific location. I’m going to the amusement park. By using the word “the,” I signify a shared understanding of a specific location, even though I haven’t named it outright. “I’m going to amusement park.” Wrong, just wrong.</p>

<p>Seachai, has that plane to communist Cuba left yet?</p>

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<p>Long.897, I’m sorry if my English sounds so elusive to you, but I usually get As on my papers in school. I barely had anyone censure me about my grammar and it is still one of my strong areas. I don’t commit too much effort to type up every single little thing that matters on an internet post so I’m pretty hasty with comments without editting them.</p>

<p>I love that excuse. Yeah, comments on an internet forum are written pretty hastily, and obviously don’t require the same amount of effort as a research paper. The problem with the “I didn’t devote time to the post” excuse is that it’s often applied to errors that aren’t simple problems of haste. If I wrote a quick post, I might expect a few very specific kinds of errors. Common misspellings like “apparantly,” or using the wrong form of there/they’re/their would be acceptable. Occasional sentence fragments would be acceptable. Improper capitalization (I’m going to france, I got a new Car) would also be considered a simple error.
Unfortunately though, lack of focus on your post doesn’t cover the grammar problems that you’ve had. Some of your posts contain serious grammatical transgressions, demonstrating a poor understanding of the fundamental concepts of English grammar and syntax. You don’t neglect the fundamentals of sentence structure because you were in a hurry; you neglect them because you have a poor understanding of them. If grammar is one of your strong areas, I’d hate to see your weak ones. If you truly do get A’s on your papers (though I’m beginning to suspect that you’re ■■■■■■■■,) I suspect that it owes a good deal to the lack of rigor in the grading process of college papers.<br>
That said, if English isn’t your first language, it’s really to be expected that there are some grammatical misunderstandings, especially if your first language was East Asian (further from the Germanic languages.) You need to step off your high horse about your writing skills though. They’re not exemplary; they aren’t even above average. Peppering your prose with precocious promulgation (anyone can do it) doesn’t make you a better writer. If you do want to improve, I recommend picking up a copy of “The Elements of Style” by Strunk & White. It’s a bit dated, but what they’ve written remains relevant. </p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition (9780205632640): William Strunk, E. B. White: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-50th-Anniversary/dp/0205632645/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280083768&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-50th-Anniversary/dp/0205632645/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280083768&sr=1-1)</p>

<p>it seems that the commie Seachai has now gone in the attack mode on other CC message boards:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/lehigh-university/966926-best-worst.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/lehigh-university/966926-best-worst.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>long.897, excellent post.</p>

<p>It really underscores the problem that we have with local Community Colleges these days. For this student to get “A’s” in English classes at his Cummunity College is sad, very sad - and prettry much underscores the reasons why the better colleges and universities in this country have to very selective.</p>

<p>^Don’t be hatin’ on community colleges, my man. </p>

<p>But long.897, that was an excellent post. I love The Elements of Style as well - that was my 6th grade graduation present. It’s worked wonders. :)</p>

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<p>Again JohnAdams12, where is the evidence that exemplifies that I’m currently attending a community college?</p>