The 9T for 100L "bargain"

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(06-01-2014 10:08 PM)PrettyPoizen Resident Wrote:  Hello Deer Thistle! Happy to hear from you. I am looking and maybe the term "degrade" is being misunderstood...another interesting thing about online communication is the lack of 'face to face', which often leads to misreading. The term "degrade" by definition includes: "to lower in character or quality, to reduce in amount, strength, intensity, etc. or in reference to topography the wearing down of a surface by nature". By profession, I am a College English teacher and have taught online courses a few times. So I do understand the problems of online discussions and connotations some words have...and trust me, when English was not a student's first language it made for some Very lively discussions LOL.

Yeah, Deer needs all the help she can get with English. I'd happily pay for some tutoring lessons for her. I have trouble communicating with her so often it's very frustrating.

I always have to define words for her because she always misunderstands or seems to think they have different meanings, when usually they only have one, very specific meaning, that no other person could possibly misunderstand.

Like just yesterday, I was having a spirited discussion with her, and I said a word they complete threw her off. I think it was 'there' or something like that. Anyways, yeah, any help would be appreciated. ^___^