Dictionary of Language Testing
By:Alan Davies
Published on 1999-04-22 by Cambridge University Press
This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment
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Don't you type of loathe how we have joined the decadent phase of Goodreads whereby perhaps fifty per cent (or more) of the opinions compiled by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually bare and unabashed in their variously successful attempts at being arc, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you type of maple (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were uniformly plainspoke Do not you type of hate how we've joined the decadent phase of Goodreads wherein perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the opinions written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually naked and unabashed within their variously effective efforts at being arc, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were evenly plainspoken, simply practical, unpretentious, and -- most importantly otherwise -- boring, dull, boring? Do not you kind of loathe when people say'don't you think in this way or experience that way'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into accepting with them? In the language of ABBA: I do, I do, I do(, I really do, I do). Properly, as the interwebs is just a earth in which the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the current (and with fetish porn), we are able to review days gone by in their inviolable presentness any moment we wish. Or at least until this website finally tanks. Consider (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I have bound it with much rope and dragged it here for your perusal. (Please realize that many a sic are intended in these reviews.) their really complicated and stupid! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that book is excellent! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a review prepared in among the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal yell unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his capability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on the same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... which can be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it was supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Together with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None people had read the play before. None people wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to learn plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you definitely have sinned and are going to hell, if you believe in hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I am also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow for your small linguistic rules. Artsy phrase is going to absolutely free on its own it doesn't matter how you are attempting for you to shackle it. That is certainly your sign, Aubrey. Inside my very own impression, your participate in Macbeth was the particular worste peice ever before published by Shakespeare, and this says a great deal considering i also study the Romeo and also Juliet. Ontop involving it's presently fantastic piece, impractical characters and also absolutly discusting range of ethics, Shakespeare openly portrays Lovely lady Macbeth as being the legitimate vilian in the play. Contemplating she is mearly the actual tone of voice inside your back around and also Macbeth herself is usually truely enacting the hideous crimes, including tough and also scam, I do not see why it is so uncomplicated to assume which Macbeth would be prepared to try and do excellent instead of evil only if his or her girlfriend were being additional possitive. I think that your enjoy will be uterally unrealistic. Nonetheless these is definitely the particular ne additionally especially connected with basic ebook reviewing. Whilst succinct along with without unproductive tendency to coyness or cuteness, Jo's evaluation alludes into a bitterness therefore outstanding that it is inexpressible. A single imagines a handful of Signet Timeless Models broken in to to help portions along with pruning shears inside Jo's vicinity. I hate that play. So much in fact in which I can not also offer you just about any analogies and also similes as to how much My spouse and i not like it. A incrementally snarkier form may have reported a thing like...'I personally don't like this kind of enjoy similar to a simile I am unable to occur with.' Not necessarily Jo. Your lover converse a organic, undecorated real truth unsuitable with regard to figurative language. And there's certainly no problem by using that. As soon as within an awesome when, when you get neck-deep with dandified pomo hijinks, it really is a good wallow within the pig pen you happen to be itchin'for. Thank you so much, Jo. I adore you and the in vain greedy in similes in which won't be able to technique your bilious hatred in the heart. You are my verizon prepaid phone, in addition to We're yours. Figuratively talking, connected with course. And after this and here is our examine: Macbeth through William Shakespeare is a good literary deliver the results within the English language expressions, along with anyone that disagrees is definitely an asshole plus a dumbhead.
