xkcd once again got it soooo right!

[rogin]

This is so true! I can't count the occasions on which I wanted to do exactly that. To the day, I'm mad at Franklin, he's confused billions of students (including little legastenic me).

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/urgent_mission.png

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[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

:) Isn't it?

I already stuck it up on my study wall, for all the students that come for tutoring and ask me: "But if I add electrons to the atom, why does it become negative, that doesn't make any sense?" Usually I just apologized in the name of science at that point.

[tibialisant.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes, I often feel that way when explaining the rules of the English language to my kids... I'm sorry, I'm so terribly sorry.

:D

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Hehe, oh yes, languages got so many of those bugs. I still wish I could have a go who decided on the sexes for romanic words (like who decided vagina was male???)

*hugs*