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Re: Hearts and Hooves Day (a.k.a. Valentine's)
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:41 am
by Mark N
shadowinthelight wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:So...we can blame the
Sumerians for LOL Cats?
I thought it was the Egyptians.
I would say that this just proves that while history does not repeat it most certainly rhymes (Thank you Mr. Clemens wherever you have gone
).
Re: Hearts and Hooves Day (a.k.a. Valentine's)
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:55 am
by DinkyInky
Funny you mention that authour. My son just read The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. His AR testing listed that story as a sixth grade level book, and the teacher seemed surprised that he tested on it. He was upset he got a 20% scoring, but the teacher verbally quizzed him on the book afterwards, and determined the AR test was too difficult for a first grader.
He has not given up, and is determined to read more classics and test on them anyway. I am going to see if they can give me a sample test so I can figure out what he needs to learn to pass them.
My son gave me a valentine breakfast, went to school, then came home and folded paper valentine snowflakes(I think I will recycle the bits as confetti).
Re: Hearts and Hooves Day (a.k.a. Valentine's)
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:42 pm
by Fairportfan
Has anyone here ever seen the piece Clemens did where he translated the Jumping Frog story into French ... and then back into English?
(Of course, you can do the same with online translators like BabelFish much more easily these days ...)
Re: Hearts and Hooves Day (a.k.a. Valentine's)
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:21 pm
by DinkyInky
Fairportfan wrote:Has anyone here ever seen the piece Clemens did where he translated the Jumping Frog story into French ... and then back into English?
(Of course, you can do the same with online translators like BabelFish much more easily these days ...)
That is actually the version I have, and I only read him the English one, despite him asking me to. I have read him Winnie Ille Pu and had him in absolute stitches.