+585 There should be English as a language class in school, so instead of taking Spanish or French students could learn a whole bunch of long, fancy English words and their origins and become like a walking thesaurus. That would be awesome, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

they have that, it's called English class, or Language Arts if you prefer.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Fail.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No, op has a point. I learned far more about English in my Classic Greek class than I ever did in any English class. They just don't teach you many practical things beyond 9th grade then in university they expect you to speak all fancy and whatnot in essays.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

We do. It's called English.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm in an English class (Honors Accelerated), and we don't learn squat. What are we doing? Well, I'm reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and discussing Beowulf's "hero's journey". I've never learned word origins or big, fancy words in any class. Even with vocab, the words are pretty simple :/

by Anonymous 14 years ago

In my school we learn "fancy words" as a freshman and up.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's called.. Wait for it.. AP Language & Composition

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ooh I'm taking that! But we just write a bunch of essays =/

by Anonymous 14 years ago

no it is not because then that would be all writing. This is no serious writing, just learning new words and how to use them correctly, and their origins.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ono

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Englsh clas as launguage class! we already speak englsh! oh the irongy!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You should take English class

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't know where you're from but if you do English Language as an A Level, you do learn "fancy words."

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't mean as a class for writing and such, I mean as a class solely for learning words and their origins. Now I don't know about you, but my English class teaches me squat about any of that. So don't hate!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Nobody's "hating." We're just discussing. There's a difference between hating and disagreeing.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Like an English origin class? Wouldn't that be Latin? However, you still have a decent point.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No that would not be Latin. I happen to take a Latin class, and it's all learning Latin words, how to grammatically use those Latin words in Latin sentences, and Roman mythology, culture, and history. Nowhere do we spend actual class time learning about origins of English words.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ah. ok, my mistake. then what kind of class would that be?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

.......well if you're English class isn't teaching you "fancy words" like mine is I guess you could invest in a dictionary

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I would much rather learn more other languages... we Anglos are notoriously terrible at that.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

In victoria australia there's a subject called english language and I think you do things like that. But my school doesn't offer it because apparntly its really boring and no one would take it.

by Anonymous 14 years ago