I had to Google it, but I was a little disappointed to find out that the plural of consensus is actually consensuses, and not consensi. It reminded me of the old joke Teacher : can anyone give me an example of a word with 3 syllables? Jemima : consensus, Miss
19 out of 20 cases of alphabet-diagnoses et al disappear as soon as the pupil or student no longer recieves preferential treatment.
Case A: student expresses behaviour congruent with ADHD and dyslexia. Student is given easier tasks, more time and lower passing bars. Student's symptoms persist.
Case B: as above, but student is given the same tasks, plus extra homework which the parents are to be involved in/with, to make up for any shortfall due to the alleged conditions. Student is given extra time during exams, test and such but is held to the same standard as his/hers classmates. Student's symptoms disappear after a few weeks.
Case C: as B but student's symptoms persist for months and are consistent no matter context or environment. Student is to undergo clinical trials and evaluation by a licensed psychologist, for a period of several weeks. (I'll not tire you with the details of the tests but in a real investigation they are very rigorous, and often repeated by a fellow psychologist who hasn't seen the first results.) Should the tests indicate ADHD, the student and parents are offered extra counseling and training on how to handle it. Medication is not offered.
(Case C is how it used to be done. Ritaline and other amphetamines were never offered until the person in question was over 25 years of age.)
The above pattern is equally true for various personality disorders and neuroses. If the patient is exposed to a "march or die"-mentality and situation (in principle!), almost all become if not happy so at least sane and normal.
Sorry, but this issue is to me like a Kentish coastal hamlet to a viking; just cannot leave it alone.
Your final thought is why it is so important to those who would defy truth and common sense (a man is a man, hands and all) to provide propaganda to young children and to take advantage of generations of schoolchildren who have never read Kipling’s “If” or Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Orwell’s “Animal Farm” or Jackson’s “The Lottery”. Those of us under the age of 40 or so have been fed the pablum of pro-kindness philosophy and assured that we, unlike the generations before, possess supreme moral proficiency and lack blind spots. No wonder we are a bunch of thugs demanding respect-or-else. I bet there are a lot of people who even in their private moments would never examine what they truly believe because the very concept of coming to a personal belief about the world— of thinking critically, of having a personal moral compass— is as foreign to them as it would be to a poodle. Such things aren’t “kind” and thus are only done by the bullies of the world whom we must name and shame.
There's apparently a recent law in California that results in the deregistration of doctors who provide medical advice to patients that's not aligned with the current medical consensus, as defined by the politicians who introduced the law. Prescribe Ivermectin for the Chinese Plague and off you go to the naughty mat.
My first thought when I heard of this was that it would freeze all knowledge at the current status quo. Had it been passed 500 years ago we'd still be applying leeches and actually blowing smoke up people's arses when they feel a bit poorly.
That the politicians who pass such cretinous legislation can't see this obvious point indicates that they are stupid, or corrupt, or both. Either way they're not fit for purpose and should be, oh I dunno, shot at dawn or something.
I believe this law is currently being challenged, so hopefully common sense will prevail before the firing squads become necessary.
There is a video floating out there related to your essay here, about how pianos are designed for large hands, but there is a company that makes smaller gauged pianos. One woman fell to tears when she first played one of these smaller gauge pianos, after a lifetime of stretching her hands to fit a regular piano. So, yeah, its a thing, to work with items that are not made for your size, and few can afford a custom piano, but I am glad its at least been thought of and is possible. Interestingly, after the ease of playing the smaller piano, some players find that they can relax more when playing a regular size keyboard, that the stress of stretching has been reduced overall.
The reason why the plural is not consensi is that it's a 4th declension noun in Latin so the plural would be consensus with a long U (if I recall my Latin lessns correctly) as opposed to a short U in the singular.
It always annoys me that in English data is treated as plural when in Greek neuter plurals of this sort always took a singular verb.
19 out of 20 cases of alphabet-diagnoses et al disappear as soon as the pupil or student no longer recieves preferential treatment.
Case A: student expresses behaviour congruent with ADHD and dyslexia. Student is given easier tasks, more time and lower passing bars. Student's symptoms persist.
Case B: as above, but student is given the same tasks, plus extra homework which the parents are to be involved in/with, to make up for any shortfall due to the alleged conditions. Student is given extra time during exams, test and such but is held to the same standard as his/hers classmates. Student's symptoms disappear after a few weeks.
Case C: as B but student's symptoms persist for months and are consistent no matter context or environment. Student is to undergo clinical trials and evaluation by a licensed psychologist, for a period of several weeks. (I'll not tire you with the details of the tests but in a real investigation they are very rigorous, and often repeated by a fellow psychologist who hasn't seen the first results.) Should the tests indicate ADHD, the student and parents are offered extra counseling and training on how to handle it. Medication is not offered.
(Case C is how it used to be done. Ritaline and other amphetamines were never offered until the person in question was over 25 years of age.)
The above pattern is equally true for various personality disorders and neuroses. If the patient is exposed to a "march or die"-mentality and situation (in principle!), almost all become if not happy so at least sane and normal.
Sorry, but this issue is to me like a Kentish coastal hamlet to a viking; just cannot leave it alone.
Your final thought is why it is so important to those who would defy truth and common sense (a man is a man, hands and all) to provide propaganda to young children and to take advantage of generations of schoolchildren who have never read Kipling’s “If” or Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Orwell’s “Animal Farm” or Jackson’s “The Lottery”. Those of us under the age of 40 or so have been fed the pablum of pro-kindness philosophy and assured that we, unlike the generations before, possess supreme moral proficiency and lack blind spots. No wonder we are a bunch of thugs demanding respect-or-else. I bet there are a lot of people who even in their private moments would never examine what they truly believe because the very concept of coming to a personal belief about the world— of thinking critically, of having a personal moral compass— is as foreign to them as it would be to a poodle. Such things aren’t “kind” and thus are only done by the bullies of the world whom we must name and shame.
There's apparently a recent law in California that results in the deregistration of doctors who provide medical advice to patients that's not aligned with the current medical consensus, as defined by the politicians who introduced the law. Prescribe Ivermectin for the Chinese Plague and off you go to the naughty mat.
My first thought when I heard of this was that it would freeze all knowledge at the current status quo. Had it been passed 500 years ago we'd still be applying leeches and actually blowing smoke up people's arses when they feel a bit poorly.
That the politicians who pass such cretinous legislation can't see this obvious point indicates that they are stupid, or corrupt, or both. Either way they're not fit for purpose and should be, oh I dunno, shot at dawn or something.
I believe this law is currently being challenged, so hopefully common sense will prevail before the firing squads become necessary.
There is a video floating out there related to your essay here, about how pianos are designed for large hands, but there is a company that makes smaller gauged pianos. One woman fell to tears when she first played one of these smaller gauge pianos, after a lifetime of stretching her hands to fit a regular piano. So, yeah, its a thing, to work with items that are not made for your size, and few can afford a custom piano, but I am glad its at least been thought of and is possible. Interestingly, after the ease of playing the smaller piano, some players find that they can relax more when playing a regular size keyboard, that the stress of stretching has been reduced overall.
That dastardly plot to prevent women from playing Rachmaninoff isn't working, thankfully. Case in point is Yuja Wang's recent Rach marathon, where she played all of the concertos (concerti?) plus the "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". https://www.curtis.edu/news/superstar-pianist-yuja-wang-08-performs-rachmaninoff-marathon-with-the-philadelphia-orchestra/
The reason why the plural is not consensi is that it's a 4th declension noun in Latin so the plural would be consensus with a long U (if I recall my Latin lessns correctly) as opposed to a short U in the singular.
It always annoys me that in English data is treated as plural when in Greek neuter plurals of this sort always took a singular verb.
Hear, hear!