European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday May 5,1986 columns & comments permission to us essay denied b and Rooney All i remember about the textbooks t had in school is to exclude anyone from understanding what he s written but it is almost always wrong for a writer or for that matter a Parent or a teacher to talk Down or while Down to anyone. If you write simply and Dirc cily children will understand. Even if they Are a Little confused Al first they la get the general idea. Then they la associate the general idea with the words you be used and get o understand them. This is the learning process. By the Lime children reach the seventh Grade teachers should be talking to them the Way they talk to adults. For one thing it is almost impossible for an adult to judge what changes should be made in a sentence to make it simpler for a child to understand so the Best course to follow is to say it or write it As Well As you Are Able. Don give them seventh Grade baby talk. The trouble with most textbooks is they be turned into characterless Pap. So Many groups Are applying so much pressure to ten chars boards of education and textbook publishers that by the Lime everything anyone objects to has been deleted there s nothing of any substance left. Children should be exposed to All the ideas there arc soil icy can choose for themselves. One of the Best teachers i Ever had would have been thrown out of a lot of schools or colleges because he was left of Liberal. As kids we talked and laughed about How favourably he looked on communism but it did t make any of us communists. People underestimate the ability of Young students to Sorl things out. Barbara while i have Yoor attention let me Lalk to you about cookies. I Don t know How to Start but let me just say thai the cookies aunt Anna made were not junk food. There Ore a Tot of commercial cookies that Aren trunk food either. Have you tried Pupp Cridge farm s Crisp molasses cookies recently or their Oatmeal Raisin on behalf of the cookie makers and cookie eaters of the world Amateur and professional i resent your slurring reference to our product. Have you never enjoyed an oreo a Hydro a social Tea Are you knocking Fig newtons there May not be a lot of wheat germ fiber or Vitamin b in animal Cracker but Are they really bad for kids marijuana and cocaine i can understand not mentioning but chocolate Chip and macaroons does Merrill realty think that by never mentioning the word cookie in one of its textbooks it will improve the health of the nation no Barbara 1 Don t want anything i be written used Ina junk textbook. To to Lbw Mia str ten. If you re in doubt then spell it out by Mes a letter comes to hand from Marie Edwards of Mercer Island Wash. Every copy editor in the country could read it with profit Stic is baffled by All those capital letters that duller our columns and often mystify our readers Why do so Many articles contain sets of capital letters to identify agencies or entities often no reference is made to the Parent words that spawned the letters. The Reader wanders through a Maze of information and exit without comprehension. Everyone understands irs or flit there arc other abbreviations that Are not too difficult to translate but what worries me is whether our language will deteriorate into three letter codes the use of initial letters and acronyms is a judgment Call. At the new York times the Rule is that even the Mast familiar combinations must be spelled out. Theodore Bernstein the times great Wor Masler. Once , everyday of the world he said someone is born who has yet to meet the a act and must be told what it. I would agree with my correspondent hat Fri prob ably needs no explication. It in t necessary to spell out Columbia broadcasting system. But i m not so sure about the Universal recognition of irs Bernstein s Rule re Mains sound. When in doubt spell it out the irs internal Revenue service announced in the flow across my desk of mangles dangles blunders and barbarism one Boner turns up with remarkable frequency. It involves the confusion of generations. The Chicago Sun times identified Sydney Biddle Barrows die Mayflower in this fashion she ii the Swank Manhattan lady with descendants reaching Back to Plymouth Rock the newsletter of the automobile club of Central new Jersey had rouble in the other direction the City of Bridgeton will observe its 300th birthday this year and Richard Hancock an ancestor of Bri Duclon founder will participate in the it s truly not so very difficult to dust Inganish betwee ancestors and descendants. It just requires a moment s thought. -. Getting the Rigel word always requires a Little thought. Up United press International recently interviewed Veteran Gardener in Boston the gentleman recommended Mossy Stone Walls and perhaps a Small Garden Pool that will build a restive the writer did t mean restive for heaven s Sake he meant another up writer this one in new York interviewed Dan Rulh or of lbs for five straight years. Rather has held the envious position of being the Best news shark in the let us Overlook the metaphor of a shark in the land an suggest hat the reporter meant to write not of Raider s envious position but of his enviable position. Watch out for foreigners in the san Francisco Chroni Cle a feature writer interviewed or. Malhilde Kirn an authority on aids acquired immune deficiency syn drome. To her work she brings a certain Cache. Well no. A Cache rhymes with Bash is a hiding place. The fumbled word was cachet rhymes with sashay French word Best translated As "prestige.". In tie journal american of Bellvue Wash a columnist let us know that the mayans Are credited Wilh making chocolate 4,000 years ago but most Central american indians probably had been doing it in one form or another since time in me Morium time immemorial maybe. It was doubtless Only a typographic error but i brightened an interview in the Baltimore Sun with English actress Cherie lung by. 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