Subj : Re: PING Question To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Mar 05 2020 00:26:32 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 27-Feb-2020 08:28 <=- NB>> At least you were writing down your answers.... Our son, in his NB>> academic kindergarten math classes, wasn't writing down anything... NB>> his teacher knew that he understood the concepts, so couldn't figure NB>> why he wasn't producing anything on the tests... She brought it up NB>> at a parent-teacher conference, we all four were there, teacher, kid NB>> and both parents... Richard said to the kid, I know you know the NB>> answers, and the teacher knows that you do too, but you still need NB>> to write them down so that she can prove it to other people (or NB>> something to that effect)... You could actually see the lightbulb go NB>> on over his head... BM> Yup! Sometimes the obvious has to be explained! He just hadn't seen any need to write it down since he knew the teacher knew he knew the answers... ;) This finally gave him a different way of looking at it... :) NB>>> Often the Brand names are something at least reminiscent of what the NB>>> drug is supposed to be treating... and I think the generic drug name NB>>> has some relation to what class of drug it is.... I realize you were NB>>> just kidding about throwing the scrabble tiles, but that's really NB>>> not how they do it... generally has something to do with the NB>>> compound(s) making up the new drug(s).... BM>> Yes, I was kidding about the Scrabble tiles but it sure seems like it BM>> some times!! NB>> Especially with the really complicated generic names... BM> One I take ends in -lol and I always gets stuck on that part as Laugh BM> Out Loud. I rarely use that abbreviation but for whatever reason with BM> than medication name that's the part I see first and sticks. Yeah, I don't use that abbreviation either.... metoprolol and carvedilol are two that come to mind to me... Richard was on the first, and now is on the second.... there may be others in that class... beta blockers, I think.... :) BM>> Half-thinking of the 13- and 15-letter word categories on _Jeopardy!_, BM>> most of which are relatively common usage and so not as bad as one BM>> initially things when hears "thirteen letters!!". BM>> Generalstaatsanwalt is 19. BM>> Konsumgterproduktion is 21. BM>> Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is 34. NB>> And then there's antidisestablishmentarianism with 28 letters, which NB>> we used to parade out back when I was in highschool... a proper NB>> dictionary word even back then... ;) BM> Yup! Need to combine several Scrabble games' tiles for that one! It wouldn't fit on the board either, for that matter... ;) NB>> But the longest word in the English language is smiles... there's NB>> a mile between the two esses... BM> It's an old kid's jokebook joke... :) ttyl neb .... If we learn from our mistakes, I'm about due for my PhD. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .