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so, how is this different from learning something by memory/repetition?
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so, how is this different from learning something by memory/repetition?
It's the difference between Boot Camp and Sesame Street.
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>so, how is this different..
well, not to be flip about it, there are four unique rotes in W3 (more in OED), all from varying roots:
1. L. rotare 2. perhaps akin to Old Norse rauta 3. Middle English, rote, perhaps from L. rota [see 1] 4. rote from Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German hruozza, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Irish crott; rota, rotta, rotte from Medieval L. rota, rotta, from Old French rote
the different senses are left as an exercise for the student. <g>
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well, maybe if you tell me a few more times, and I turn it around in my head a bit, I'll begin to hear it...
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So, who first wrote rote?
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maybe if you tell me a few more times ... I'll begin to hear it
Learning by "rote" conjures up visions of memory "drills" and "Drill Sargeants".
This post is a good example of learning "by rote".
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...and that sense of rote has nothing to do with my rote, rerote the master, ruthfully.
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The sound of the surf, crashing on the shore Is like a memory pounded, pounded, pounded, Relentlessly into the brain Until I am hounded, hounded, hounded, And washed down the drain Of the classrooms of yore.
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oops..
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classrooms of yore
Were the classrooms of yore Really such a bore? At least the memories of mine Pre-date Columbine.
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