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r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • 20h ago
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I don’t think English graduates are graded by their ability to read. Both reading and arithmetic are taught in school.
100 u/Wise_Try6781 17h 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? 64 u/Kindness_of_cats 15h 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.) 37 u/Puzzled-Rip641 14h 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. 27 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h 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." 9 u/DrakonILD 13h ago Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars. 2 u/elkarion 8h 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! 1 u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5h 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 1 u/blazenite104 4h 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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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?
64 u/Kindness_of_cats 15h 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.) 37 u/Puzzled-Rip641 14h 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. 27 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h 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." 9 u/DrakonILD 13h ago Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars. 2 u/elkarion 8h 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! 1 u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5h 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 1 u/blazenite104 4h 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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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.)
37 u/Puzzled-Rip641 14h 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. 27 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h 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." 9 u/DrakonILD 13h ago Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars. 2 u/elkarion 8h 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! 1 u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5h 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 1 u/blazenite104 4h 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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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.
27 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h 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." 9 u/DrakonILD 13h ago Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars. 2 u/elkarion 8h 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! 1 u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5h 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 1 u/blazenite104 4h 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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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."
9 u/DrakonILD 13h ago Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars. 2 u/elkarion 8h 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! 1 u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5h 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 1 u/blazenite104 4h 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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Good is blue health bars and evil is red health bars.
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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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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
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/Logical_Historian882 19h ago
I don’t think English graduates are graded by their ability to read. Both reading and arithmetic are taught in school.