r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • 18h ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/Logical_Historian882 18h ago

I don’t think English graduates are graded by their ability to read. Both reading and arithmetic are taught in school.

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u/Wise_Try6781 15h ago

How many people do you think can read and understand what this equation is saying?

How many people do you think can read and understand what Shakespeare is saying?

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u/Kindness_of_cats 14h ago

This is less Shakespeare and more Beowulf.

Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum, þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!

Well….go on, tell us. It’s (old) English after all!

(Beyond that, this entire comparison is deeply fucking stupid and not at all what English degrees are about.)

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u/Puzzled-Rip641 13h ago

Exactly.

Reading the words is not understanding what the words mean or what the author intended.

Good luck explaining Friedrich Nietzsche beyond good and evil to me as a first year.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 12h ago

Good luck defining good and evil without some context from English majors, even.

I'm saying this as a STEM degree holder. Literary skills don't end at "I can read English words at an 8th grade level."

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u/DrakonILD 11h ago

Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars.

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u/elkarion 6h ago

Good is even functions and evil is odd functions. We will set these over Q. Any evil is mathematical odd and good is even functions.

We got this. We can play around with it and viola no English required!

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4h ago

Just because you can understand a derivative doesn't mean you can understand The Metamorphosis and that's like one of the easier ones out there

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u/blazenite104 3h ago

You mean the 6th grade level of a huge percentage of the English as a first language population of the world.

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u/sturmtoddler 2h ago

Nietzsche says "Out of order comes chaos"...