I use tallies to communicate numbers with my illiterate, non-German speaking students. Easy, I thought before the first time I tried it. I had to learn that tallying – you know, four vertical lines and one diagonal one signifies five – is not a universal concept. Even the ones that had some schooling do not know the concept. Quite a few have a hard time understanding and learning it.
PS re: the title – Yes, I just had a famous episode of Star Trek on my you tube feed.
but every second Thursday in September this siren on top of our village town hall together with other sirens in Germany is tested. In addition in my hometown they might be tested on one Saturday a month. I’ve never heard them sounded in seriousness, not … Continue reading I Don’t Want to Alarm You
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My posts don’t post (at least not all of them). My comments disappear. And no amount of screaming seems to help.
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that I would get home before the rain. Or before that snake wiould meet its target.
FOWC with Fandango: Hypothesis
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