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and we had real worries that he wouldn't pass his exams at 16 and 18 because his writing was so close to illegible.

I had the same issue, though due to a premature birth fine motor control problem, and I simply typed my exams, or at least the ones with essay questions. For the high school ones that generally meant being sent to some teacher's office with a typewriter for the allotted time. In college it was most often a case of 'here's the exam, take three hours and drop it off in the box'.

The honour system actually worked. When I taught English in Poland after college, I was shocked by the amount of cheating, and even more at the way in which the students saw it as a normal thing (I was ordered to pretend I didn't speak Polish, so the students spoke freely in front of me, safe in the knowledge that I couldn't understand them. Heh. They were a little surprised at my uncanny ability to detect cheating. I also had the best knowledge of the school gossip, bar none - I knew exactly who was taking which drugs, having what spat, and sleeping with whom - it was sort of fun.)

by MarekNYC on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 01:22:20 PM EST
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Nokia execs in the Nineties were fortunate to be able to use Finnish together in live meetings in the US secure in the knowledge that no-one else present would understand what was being said. That enabled them to exchange updates in negotiation tactics in broad daylight.

I was told of a meeting situation in NY in which 3 Nokia guys agreed that the brutal tactics of the other side required drastic action and that they should close up their briefcases in synch and walk out. They got what they wanted as a result.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 02:22:18 PM EST
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