I agree. It’s often difficult to know where to start looking though. I had the Devil’s own time in high school because I was never taught the quadratic equation. Someone asked a question in GQ once and it was shut down. I don’t remember if it was a homework question but I, for one, wanted to know how to solve it. It was in a Pit thread that someone posted the quadratic equation. It was like a Magic Decoder Ring. Oh, how I wish I’d been taught about that in high school! (I was talking to my ex-fiancée the other day and the subject came up. She was taught it by a new teacher at the school that I never had. She’s two years younger than I.) So I think that even if a question is a ‘homework question’ the thread should be kept open so that hints at how to go about answering it can be posted. Not only might the OP learn a valuable tool (without actually getting the specific question answered), but those of us who are also interested will have the tool as well.
As for the thread in question, I knew what language it is. I liked to read the dictionary – the chapters before the definitions that talk about the development of languages and such. Although I do not know that alphabet, I have at least seen it by looking at the chart in the dictionary so many years ago. (Not to mention that the characters are often used in maths.) I don’t feel like going to a page (that someone has already linked) and typing the individual letter into another site that I use a lot; but if the OP’s link had been text instead of a .jpg this would have been a simple matter.
There are things that are difficult to look up on google if you don’t have a lot of information. Sometimes people need a hint. So if I were a moderator I would have answered the question like this:
This would point the poster in the right direction to find the answer himself.
But I was giving the wrong answer a la that amazing thread on “To Kill a Mockingbird” and cyborgs from the future which apparently got lost in the Winter of Our Missed Content. The word that he is looking for is very similar in Greek to the word I was leading him to.
I found it in under three minutes, without using any of the links or suggestions posted in this thread, and I have trouble figuring out the names of fucking frat houses.
The second letter is pi and the fourth letter is a T on its side. Obviously a tipsy T or one that’s slightly inebriated. Finally, there’s a UB in the middle with blood running down its sides.
So where in this world would one have eaten a pie or drunk tea while ub shot? Somewhat like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, I think.
But if you determine the answer to this, I think you’ll be halfway home.
Actually I beg to differ. I wrote all 3 papers for a friend’s ethics class. The only thing the teacher cared about was his grade in the exams throughout the year, and the final. The periodic papers were a requirement of the syllabus style of the previous professor. FWIW, I got Eddie a 3.8 on the assorted papers throughout the semester. He got 3.9 on the exams. The teacher was happy, Eddie was happy [working double shifts for emergency cash gave him little time for the actual papers] and I got my meals for the semester. Win-win-win scenario. And yes we asked the teacher if we could because of his comment that the papers were required but didnt count towards the overall grade [which is how we found out that he preferred tests to thesis for his 10* level classes.]
Of course college is different from HS, but the princeple is the same.
Here’s a clue, aruvqan. The teacher was only happy because he didn’t know about your dishonesty. If this teacher was at all competent, then he didn’t merely care about giving out good grades. Rather, his goal would have been to ensure that the students actually learned something.
ESPECIALLY in an ethics class.
It was NOT a win-win-win scenario. The teacher lost, since he was the victim of outright dishonesty. Eddie lost, since he lost an opportunity to actually exercise and concretize what he was supposed to have learned. Maybe you won something out of this, but I would deem that to be a dubious victory at best.
I disagree. Determining which alphabet is being used is almost certainly part of what the teacher wants the students to do. Frankly, though, I can’t imagine anyone not knowing it was Greek. Maybe the teachers should have offered a PI(e) to the first person who figured it out.
To be fair he did say that the teacher was fine with the essays having been written by someone else. Sounds like the teacher shouldn’t be teaching Ethics but “lack-of-ethics” classes. Still if the Essays didn’t count towards the final marks, why not just submit one word essays for each paper and not worry about it?
That’s exactly why I think it’s dubious that this teacher wouldn’t care if the essays were written by someone else. What’s the point of having essays at all, then?
What’s the difference between asking a question because he’s curious about the answer and asking a question because he needs an answer for school, or work, or to help out his dad with a computer problem? Is there some moral standard of edification that I’m unaware of?
sigh I was never aware there was a member named Rico, but now he is a moderator. I am happy for him, but there is one small problem. Moderators have theme music in my head. Theme music that plays when I see them put on the mod hat (eg. I hear the Leave it to Beaver theme music for SkipMagic. I hear Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in G Minor for Lynn. I have no reason, nor any rhyme for this). Now, I suffer because I read Rico’s name and hear his theme music.
FaerieBeth is a child of the 80s + Mod named Rico = Rico Suave
Trust me, it’s worse if you’re older. I’m a child of the 50s. And I hear the theme from “I Love Lucy” (which is probably partially due to the fact that Rico, on another board that allows them, uses a picture of Dezi Arnaz as his avatar.
White coat? I don’t want to put on a white coat. And the sleeves are way too long…
Who the hell is Rico? I’ve never even heard of this guy. How did that happen?!