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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@MartinII They let you breathe? Good God man. how lenient!
Detentions at our school (I had two) meant spending the time on some imposition - you could not use it for homework as that would defeat the object - but it could also mean missing some enjoyable after-school activity you had hoped to join.
I knew of one girl who arrived without anything set to do, so the supervising teacher made her write the French numbers from[i] Un... [/i] upwards. I have no idea how far she reached in that hour, especially given the French numbers above [i]Vingt[/i], I think, tend to become textual adding-sums.
Detentions at our school (I had two) meant spending the time on some imposition - you could not use it for homework as that would defeat the object - but it could also mean missing some enjoyable after-school activity you had hoped to join.
I knew of one girl who arrived without anything set to do, so the supervising teacher made her write the French numbers from[i] Un... [/i] upwards. I have no idea how far she reached in that hour, especially given the French numbers above [i]Vingt[/i], I think, tend to become textual adding-sums.