From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Book REview
Date: 1996/05/13
Date: 1996-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <319732CF.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4mu2v7$7s1@fang.dsto.defence.gov.au
sxc@itd.dsto.gov.au wrote:
>
> If I had been an American undergraduate, I might be irritated by the
> suggestion that my attention span was so short that I needed to be
> pandered to with culturally specific examples. As an Australian
He he! That's a good one.
What makes you think your average American has any clue that she
has just read something "culturally specific"? I certainly never
noticed such a thing (unless you count "queues" in data structures;
"queue" isn't really a word in this country).
I suspect most undergrads won't notice, as long as it is specific to
THEIR culture. Unless they are accomplished travelers, how could
they?
I'm not saying this is a GOOD thing. I just found that statement
humorous.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-06 0:00 Book REview Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-10 0:00 ` sxc
1996-05-12 0:00 ` dave
1996-05-12 0:00 ` dave
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-12 0:00 ` Todd Coniam
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1996-05-15 0:00 ` sxc
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-05-09 0:00 John McCormick
1996-05-12 0:00 Dave
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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