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Old October 22, 2009, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by laepelba View Post
The funniest thing is that your typical writing style is very academic and you use a lot of "big" vocabulary words... Talk about "formal".
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Yes, a very teacher-y term. "The student has exceptional reading comprehension." "The student's comprehension of abstract mathematical concepts is less than what it should be for her age level." Etc. We use the word ALL the time in situations where "understanding" would not be quite adequate...
Or maybe just not commonly used in those kinds of phrases?
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