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#110037 08/16/03 03:52 AM
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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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