Correct. Also getting to 6th grade is generally defined as the the language skills needed to read/write news, most novels, contracts, information pamphlets, etc. The use of specialized language, such as technical lexicons, is where you get into higher grade levels of reading. There isn’t any universal standard as to what determines this, exactly. Many tests also work on being able to make sense of sentences that gradually become more, and more, obtuse. Their length, use of punctuation, tenses, and other technicalities, are increased until the person can no longer explain the sentence correctly. The problem with this is that it may be technically correct, but it is bad writing. If someone where to ace a test on some of this overly complex sentence structure, they would actually do worse for submitting it to a test of the skills on writing a sentence explaining something. So a lot of this lexical grading of reading level is nebulous, and results will vary from each person reviewing them, and exactly how they are performed.
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The way they get that grade level reading comprehension is dubious. If you read the news, non-academic magazines, and most of the NYTs best seller list, you likely have been reading primarily around that level according to these tests.
Correct, but refusal to engage in small talk, banter, discussing your lives, and the occasional social outing, will have many see you as stand offish, asocial, and your refusal to do this basic community building stuff, as being rude.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Satire is indistinguishable from stupidityEnglish111·4 days agopublic ownership with rents based on the costs of maintaining the properties properly
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Satire is indistinguishable from stupidityEnglish24·4 days agothis only works if they stop them from being able to hold investments in companies, and markets, they pass laws for, as well as getting rid of political donations. If we don’t do that their salary going down would only negatively affect the small number of congress members that want actual change to things.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•US general says NATO could seize Russia's Kaliningrad with 'unheard of' speedEnglish12·4 days agoone imperial force dominates another, the cycle continues, time moves on, the plebs suffer for it
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How far are you away from your "spawn point" (place of birth)? Do you currently consider that city/town to be "home"?English2·5 days agoroughly 2200 miles, and no
Farthest away I have ever lived from where I was born? About 5500 miles. Again, neither were home. Don’t know if I have a place that is really a home no matter where I am, because I have moved around a lot in my life.
The trend seems to be that being a bigot on stage, while saying you can’t say these things, while saying them, is a way to get mega popular and loads of money.
Now criticizing israel’s genocide, or saying the palestinians deserve to live, are the way to get the government, and organized minions, to destroy your life.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"English233·6 days agoGabe shouldnt be able to have the money he has, but his yacht ownership isn’t the issue many are making when pointing it out. One is his home, full time, any home he was going own was realistically going to suck for the environment. Last I read the others are all like research vessels, emergency medical facilities for disaster relief, and humanitarian aid, and shit. Not like a zuck’s smaller yacht to act as a helipad for his larger yacht thing.
maybe some day we will have a system that prevents people from having that much money, until then any place with an active enough economy has some assholes owning yachts.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Two years after the Unity controversy, how are things going with Godot?English24·6 days agostill waiting for the bastard
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which hobby is considered a cult or has cult-like tendencies?English4·11 days agoHeresy, the savior is Arch!
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Making your bed is, at best, a performative waste of time...English7·11 days agoSame argument could be made for sweeping/vacuuming the floor or combing your hair. It will just get messy again.
This is not true, all of those things have drawbacks that not making the bed do not. Maybe never washing your bed clothes, sure, but just not making it is not the same as never cleaning your floors, or grooming your hair/body. If you don’t clean the floors, they get sticky, attract pests, build up bacteria, etc. If you don’t comb your hair it will begin to knot up, and cause scalp problems, if you don’t do the dishes they will get covered in bacteria, and mold, and attract pests. Not making your bed doesn’t have these types of consequences.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•HOA fines man over handing out water in heatEnglish11·12 days agoThis is straight up not true in many places. Where I live they have a long list of things you can’t have in your yard, or in your yard for extended periods of time. They have a list of rules for the flora, maintenance, etc.
The only time your assumption is true is the inside of the house. They can’t do much there until it is a fire hazard, bio hazard, etc. , but that level of hoarding stuff is not common, and even then, there are limits to it before the city intervenes
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Three guesses who 'they' are...English4·12 days agoOn that note, you know many words have multiple definitions, so even if a definition colloquially exists, that differs from the one of most wide use, doesn’t mean that in that local, the wider use case is suddenly void.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•One California worker dead, hundreds arrested, after cannabis farm raidEnglish15·12 days agoremove the word ‘in’ and you get what is really happening
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•DOJ Describes Plan To Denaturalize Citizens on Scale That Has Never Been TriedEnglish3·12 days agoInvoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far.
Thousands of years, billions of followers, largest global influence, as this is basically what christianity is built from
No one is saying to use it only as a singular, and the singular form of they has written record predating Shakespeare
Gotten used to the singular they? Were you born in 900 or something? Seriously, the first written example we have of the singular they dates back to the 14th century.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Three guesses who 'they' are...English91·12 days agoIt means non-authoritarian and anti-capitalist. The US version of libertarian, which are just capitalists that want the market to be the government, is not the definition of the word.
Grok probably has some weird association with anime style girl figures and red pandas, so when it generated this image it threw them in.