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Ugh people
Nov. 15th, 2011 07:27 pmToday was the second oral presentation for my Middle Eastern People & Cultures class. For the most part, my classmates improved, which I liked. However...
Who on EARTH thinks it is appropriate to stop in the middle of a formal presentation that you have had all the semester thus far to prepare, and inform the professor you have NO idea how a word is pronounced?
Apparently, four students in the class. Bonus points to the woman who kept interrupting the prof when he tried to help her pronounce it, speaking over him with her own terrible guesses at how it was pronounced.
Finding billions of images with blatant stock website watermarks on them to stuff your powerpoint with: easy
Finding out how key words are pronounced: hard, apparently
Also, I am kind of regretting not taking Egypt just because the guy who took it is apparently the only guy in class with no prior knowledge of Ancient Egypt, and he has focused his presentations on Ancient Egypt (which must be losing him a TON of points) and is obviously not practicing his presentations out loud. He spent a minute or so trying different ways of saying Osiris until he settled on oh-see-REESE. Uh. Well, points for apparently learning how to guess how Arabic words are pronounced; too bad you picked just about the only country on the list that historically speaks a language completely unrelated to Arabic. Oops.
Also also, the guys who chose Iran and Iraq are the only two in the class who have yet to figure out how to pronounce said names correctly, or any other country names. Despite the professor warning them, specifically, repeatedly, to learn how to pronounce them. Although one did switch from EYE-rack to uh-RACK mid-presentation, which is...closer?
BTW, I don't expect random USian off the street to know how to pronounce the names of Middle Eastern countries. Not even Iran or Iraq. Not only would that be unfair, it would be futile. But when you are PAYING FOR A COURSE and have FREE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH THE SCHOOL I expect you to treat the material with some respect, as well as the people sitting through your presentations.
ETA this!
Ahaha maybe Tripper and I should do this. But I'm not sure he can balance on his haunches like that; I've never seen him do it. He, uh, he can't even keep himself sitting up properly without his butt sliding out from under him if he's on hardwood. I'd like to see how fast it takes him to solve the problem, though...
Who on EARTH thinks it is appropriate to stop in the middle of a formal presentation that you have had all the semester thus far to prepare, and inform the professor you have NO idea how a word is pronounced?
Apparently, four students in the class. Bonus points to the woman who kept interrupting the prof when he tried to help her pronounce it, speaking over him with her own terrible guesses at how it was pronounced.
Finding billions of images with blatant stock website watermarks on them to stuff your powerpoint with: easy
Finding out how key words are pronounced: hard, apparently
Also, I am kind of regretting not taking Egypt just because the guy who took it is apparently the only guy in class with no prior knowledge of Ancient Egypt, and he has focused his presentations on Ancient Egypt (which must be losing him a TON of points) and is obviously not practicing his presentations out loud. He spent a minute or so trying different ways of saying Osiris until he settled on oh-see-REESE. Uh. Well, points for apparently learning how to guess how Arabic words are pronounced; too bad you picked just about the only country on the list that historically speaks a language completely unrelated to Arabic. Oops.
Also also, the guys who chose Iran and Iraq are the only two in the class who have yet to figure out how to pronounce said names correctly, or any other country names. Despite the professor warning them, specifically, repeatedly, to learn how to pronounce them. Although one did switch from EYE-rack to uh-RACK mid-presentation, which is...closer?
BTW, I don't expect random USian off the street to know how to pronounce the names of Middle Eastern countries. Not even Iran or Iraq. Not only would that be unfair, it would be futile. But when you are PAYING FOR A COURSE and have FREE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH THE SCHOOL I expect you to treat the material with some respect, as well as the people sitting through your presentations.
ETA this!
Ahaha maybe Tripper and I should do this. But I'm not sure he can balance on his haunches like that; I've never seen him do it. He, uh, he can't even keep himself sitting up properly without his butt sliding out from under him if he's on hardwood. I'd like to see how fast it takes him to solve the problem, though...
