Re: Doctor Whoke S01E06 Rogue

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 11/6/24 12:50 am:

In article <v46i2f$bip2$1@dont-email.me>, The Last Doctor
<mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

 
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Perhaps that's why he has trouble understanding 'Doctor Who' on
TV and the rest of us here. (I'm not including Gobble-de-gook
a.k.a. The Doctor in this discussion because .... well you know!!
He obviously has problems with the 'English Language' as well!)

 
I don’t know whether he was born in the UK but Argyros George
Argyrou (AGA, from whence came “Agamemnon” and “DJ Aggie”)
is British and of Greek Cypriot heritage, and has lived in
Northampton since at least his high school days. He went to
University in London studying a rigorous scientific discipline and
therefore the reasons for his total inability to grasp the nuances
of the modern English language, and the nature of society, are a
complete mystery and will always remain so. He has no reasonable
excuse for being so divorced from reality.

 
High school days? Isn't that an americanism?

 
Your not knowing anything about "high school days" could explain a lot
about YOU, Gobble-de-gook, but, as Blueshirt come from Eire and HE uses
that term, that would HAVE to indicate "high school days" is NOT JUST an
Americanism, Gobble-de-gook!!

Specifically, the secondary school Aggie attended has been called “Trinity
Upper School”, “Trinity High School” and I believe is now “Trinity School”.

When I joined mine, it was called “Ripley Technical School”, and in my
seven years there morphed into “Ripley Technical Grammar School”, and then
“Ripley Technical High School”, and in my sixth form became simply “Ripley
School”. A few years later mine was demolished and merged with a much
larger comprehensive, when Thatcher quietly dismantled most state selective
schools while ostensibly promoting grammar schools before launching the new
generation of “academies”.

High school is used generally in the UK for most state schools that take
11-16 or 11-18 year olds. Some separate out their sixth forms and call them
sixth form colleges while remaining integrated with the main school. High
schools , sixth form colleges and further education colleges (less math and
history, more hairdressing and vehicle maintenance) are together known as
“secondary schools”.

Meanwhile the private sector largely continues to run “prep” schools for
9-13 year olds, with public (yes, that means private, go figure) school
admissions being from 13-18. The disparity in timing helps to make it more
difficult to transition from state to private education.

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