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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> "bangs" are the girl equivalent of long sideburns.
> >
> > Does the expression "more bang for your buck" have anything to do with it?
> I'm assuming you're being serious here, but if not, good job! :-)
It was a joke. I don't like to emphasize jokes with smilies. It feels like
explaining the joke...
> I think the "bang for your buck" means the power of the firearm vs the price
> in dollars.
I thought it meant "you get something more useful/valuable (or sometimes
just "more") for the same amount of money" (usually when comparing prices of
different manufacturers).
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Then there's college, often at a university. A "university" here is a
>> college with campuses in more than one city. So you have "University of
>> California San Diego" and "University of California in Berkeley", etc.
>
> I have never really understood the difference between a college and a
> university in the US
Generally speaking, it's whether you have multiple campuses, or just one. At
least, that's what it was when I went to college.
It has nothing to do with what they teach or how long you attend or anything
like that. Just, basically, size.
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C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>> "bangs" are the girl equivalent of long sideburns.
>>> Does the expression "more bang for your buck" have anything to do with it?
>
>> I'm assuming you're being serious here, but if not, good job! :-)
>
> It was a joke. I don't like to emphasize jokes with smilies. It feels like
> explaining the joke...
I couldn't tell, because that's exactly the sort of excellent pun-type
inferences I've come to expect from smart people who aren't native speakers. :-)
>> I think the "bang for your buck" means the power of the firearm vs the price
>> in dollars.
>
> I thought it meant "you get something more useful/valuable (or sometimes
> just "more") for the same amount of money" (usually when comparing prices of
> different manufacturers).
Yes, basically. But the origin is in firearms. For example, you wouldn't
want literally more bang in your purchase of tires.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Then there's college, often at a university. A "university" here is a
> >> college with campuses in more than one city. So you have "University of
> >> California San Diego" and "University of California in Berkeley", etc.
> >
> > I have never really understood the difference between a college and a
> > university in the US
> Generally speaking, it's whether you have multiple campuses, or just one. At
> least, that's what it was when I went to college.
> It has nothing to do with what they teach or how long you attend or anything
> like that. Just, basically, size.
What would be the problem in calling all of them universities, if they
teach the same things and you get the same academic degrees?
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Warp wrote:
> > > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > >> Then there's college, often at a university. A "university" here is a
> > >> college with campuses in more than one city. So you have "University of
> > >> California San Diego" and "University of California in Berkeley", etc.
> > >
> > > I have never really understood the difference between a college and a
> > > university in the US
> > Generally speaking, it's whether you have multiple campuses, or just one. At
> > least, that's what it was when I went to college.
> > It has nothing to do with what they teach or how long you attend or anything
> > like that. Just, basically, size.
> What would be the problem in calling all of them universities, if they
> teach the same things and you get the same academic degrees?
Btw, it seems (according to wikipedia) that there are actually two
definitions of "college": The official definition and the informal,
colloquial definition. As wikipedia puts it:
"In popular usage, the word "college" is the generic term for any
post-secondary undergraduate education. Americans go to "college"
after high school, regardless of whether the specific institution is
formally a college or a university, and the word and its derivatives
are the standard terms used to describe the institutions and
experiences associated with American post-secondary undergraduate
education."
The official definition seems to be more complex.
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- Warp
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:14:07 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> Then there's college, often at a university. A "university" here is a
>>> college with campuses in more than one city. So you have "University
>>> of California San Diego" and "University of California in Berkeley",
>>> etc.
>>
>> I have never really understood the difference between a college and a
>> university in the US
>
> Generally speaking, it's whether you have multiple campuses, or just
> one. At least, that's what it was when I went to college.
>
> It has nothing to do with what they teach or how long you attend or
> anything like that. Just, basically, size.
That sounds right to me as well - though it isn't even "size" so much; I
went to Embry-Riddle, and as schools go it's fairly small, but they have
multiple campuses, so it's classified as a university.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> multiple campuses, so it's classified as a university.
The only reason I know this is I went to West Chester State College for
undergraduate, that turned into West Chester University when I was half-way
through. It was a source of great mirth.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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Warp wrote:
> What would be the problem in calling all of them universities, if they
> teach the same things and you get the same academic degrees?
You're asking me why Americans don't have a logical language?
> "In popular usage, the word "college" is the generic term
Yes.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:32:00 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> multiple campuses, so it's classified as a university.
>
> The only reason I know this is I went to West Chester State College for
> undergraduate, that turned into West Chester University when I was
> half-way through. It was a source of great mirth.
That also probably explains the university that's in Waynesburg, PA -
which is a source of much amusement for my wife (who's from there). :-)
Jim
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On 16/07/2010 4:59 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> In US schools, the books go home with students, and at university, the
>>> student purchases/owns the books.
>>
>> Really? Heh, I never knew that. Any specific reason?
>
> You make it sound outlandish. This was exactly my experience at my UK school,
> and university. We had the use of lockers at school, but as you say, homework
> etc...
>
>
You English had it soft, :-P lockers indeed. We had to take all our
school books home and bring the correct ones in daily. Our memories were
encouraged by the use of the tawse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawse
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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