TimmmmaaaaH wrote:
English as a subject was my least favourite at school.
I was getting A's in Geography reports and good marks on any other written portions of assesments, yet was getting C's for english writing at the same level.
English is a language, which is used for communication - it follows that "English" as a subject should be about writing coherently etc but it is not. It is about pure crap unless you are really interested in discourses within old "classic" novels that are pulled out of thin air and are labelled as subtle messages from authors like Shakespeare telling us certain things.
In case you missed it, I think English as it is now is stupid (in Australia at least). This is not because I am not "cultured" or not intellectual, but because I can't see the point in looking for contrived messages that probably weren't intended in the first place.
/rant.
I noticed that too. My teacher kept trying to say that there were hidden messages in Shakespeare and every other author the syllabus mandated we read. She even claimed obvious overarching themes as hidden messages and that Shakespeare was positioning us to think a certain way about things. Which is of course alot more logical that he was just writing so he could eat that week... Yeah....
And deconstructing advertising. I'm pretty sure the people who make the ads are lazy art school people. They aren't gonna think "Okay, I'll make this red to trick people into being more hungry!". They're gonna think "Hey, red looks good here."
I was getting top marks when English was about English. You know, writing stories and such. As soon as it hit this ideologies bullshit it dropped to a B and stayed there. English ended up being my worst subject.
