outraged miraculous
bought a camera for 350 €. If I had to pay 18% VAT, what was the total cost?
This is the statement of a math exercise for first year of secondary school. How would you respond? My initial intention was to find the trick. Because the only answer I could think of was ... € 350. My son said no, it was add VAT. There was no need to calculate the tax base, nor was a pun on the concept of cost. Professor explains simply wrong and the students (at least some) will understand. Unheard but very representative of the miracles of communication.
Yesterday I received a communication from my University on the division of classes for next year. It was also miraculous. He spoke of reductions in teaching different concepts for using the famous European credits (ECTS) as the unit of measurement, but to fill up the form had to use the time as the unit of measurement. How many hours are a credit?, Before it was easy: a credit equal to 10 hours. But with "Bologna" credit can be almost anything: 10 hours, 25, 7 ... depends on the race course, the number of students ... But apparently everyone understood that referred to the system before. Unprecedented but representative of how well the teachers expressed high school and college. And how well they understand.
are two examples, though we are surrounded. The terminology of finance, information from banks (sorry that I birth), judgments and laws, computer slang, jargon of management, pedantic in any field (see the joke of the announcement of a telephone company on Tarkovsky and Tanagashi nonexistent) and , by the way, your phone bills.
Sometimes we do not know what we speak, others simply do not know how to express. Many appear to have knowledge that no other use language to deceive. But other times the communication triumphs over all.
few days ago I was told by a very polite police that my council is prohibited from walking the dog on beaches and parks. All year. Day and night. Simply prohibited. How to get it without a muzzle. If someone had seen us from afar it seems that I was fined. Actually I understood that he was making a forced Paripe and if I did I left Paripe at the time could come back when I wanted. Let the ban (which hardly anyone knows and obviously no one meets) only serves to say that it is forbidden and can force a dog owner to go if someone reports it.
I like to believe in the intelligence of the editor of the ordinance, law, investigation or banking conditions, even in its "evil intelligence." And the miracle of communication can be arranged largely outrages that such sinister pen lead.
The trouble is I do not believe.
So it would be nice teachers, professors, lawyers, engineers, officers, etc, etc stop playing the fuss and shall be determined in what they say in how they say and what people have to understand them understand. Stating that I take what I play.
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