Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1978 Page: 3 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS October 27,1978*3
A fair ,
Comment
English/Forms
Now that I am studying EAglish.
430, I feel as if I am learning the
English language all over again. Not
from the standpoint of speaking, but
from that of understanding it.
It was many years ago that I
arrived in the United States, a young
kid knowing only two words in
English, “yes” and “okay,” and I
probably mispronounced these.
The airline stewardess had asked
me something.
“Are you comfortable?” she may
have asked
“Okay.”
Or did she say. “Do you want to
jump out of the airplane?”
“Yes.”
Well, it wasn’t long after I arrived
that I started school. I started to
pick up that strange, new language.
The kids in grade school thought that
I talked funny. But from my end,
their conversations were hilarious.
It sounded like a mixture of German
and Russian might sound to an
American.
I started to get accustomed to my
surroundings. The radio and
television blurted out that funny
language. I began to read about the
adventures of Dick and Jane and
their dog Spot.
“Ron, Ron, Splatt.”
I finally got it, later. “Run, Run,
Spot.”
I began to recognize the sound of
words and how they should be
pronounced. I had problems with
“b” and “v” (boat and vote) sounds
and also with “j” and “y” (joke and
yoke). My tongue was being tor-
tured. I never thought that my frien-
ds’ ears were also being tortured.
I went to a Catholic school where
the nuns were very patient with me.
Slowly and diligently, I was able to
carry on short conversations. My
school chums helped me along,
telling me the words for different
things.
On the minus side, though, I star-
ted to trade dirty words with my
school chums.
I began to read comic books with a
Spanish-English dictionary, but
some of my interpretations didn’t
make sense. I didn’t know what
Bugs Bunny meant when he asked
“What’s up, doc?” I thought he was
asking a doctor where the sky was.
Was the sky falling?
I worked out my dilemmas and
learned to take different meanings
of the words and correspond them to
the actions.
I was talked into trying out for a
Little League baseball team. My
friends figured every Latin should
be a good baseball player.
I gave in to the wishes of my bud-
dies and decided to come to the
tryout. But first I had to take care of
the language barrier, so I brought an
interpreter - my mother.
I was fortunate to even make the
team. Although I could hit well, my
fielding left a lot to be desired.
I know my coach felt funny since,
besides carrying the usual rule book,
he also had to carry a Spanish-
English dictionary.
The coach improvised some hand
signals .since his Spanish was worse
than my English. If he wanted me to
steal a base, he would motion to me
by touching his wallet.
Of course, sometimes I would
mess up in the field and that’s when I
would hear those no-no words.
By the seventh grade, I had
mastered the language enough to
argue with my teacher. English had
some funny rules. The plural of
house is houses but the plural of
mouse is mice. That didn’t make
sense. Is lice the plural of louse? No,
that’s another rule.
Words that sounded alike drove
me batty. My problem was with
principal and principle.
The teacher would say, “Remem-
ber, the principal is your pal. P-A-
L.”
No, she isn’t. She rapped me on the
knuckles last week. I said one of
those no-no words.
Through the years, though, I have
begun to admire the English
language. I still mispronounce some
words with my Spanish accent and I
do tend to go above the normal speed
at times.
But now I realize that English is a
marvelous language and that if any
language should be the universal
language, English should be that
language.
The English 430 class shows that
English has made some tran-
sformation since the times of
Beowulf. If somebody was caught
talking that Old English now, he
would be locked up on suspicion of
being a foreign agent.
Old English is as strange and fun-
ny to me now as the modern English
was to me in grade school.
Even the modern English is
changing somewhat. How many
students can remember expressions
like “groovy,” “far out,” “you
dig?” or "say, man.”
Now it’s “heavy,” “really,” "cat-
ch my drift?” and “hey, dude.”
I have no doubt that English will
keep on changing. It is that kind of
language. Flexible with the times
and the people.
Especially with people like me.
‘Forming’answers to a question
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Dear editor:
"What do you do?” is a common enough
question. The common enough answer,
however, is a little more difficult. Well,
just the other day, I was telling the little
gray squirrel who visits my office every
day that I was feeling a little out of
“touch” with answering THE QUESTION.
Then a thought blinked through my
mind. Is there a form at Lamar to help me
communicate here? Surely. Searching
through stacks of forms on my desk,
feeling hope was on the way, I sifted
through budget forms, monthly report for-,
ms, reservation forms for the Setzer
Student Center, reservation forms for
other facilities, requisition forms, vendor
number forms, film order forms, (please
let my answer FORM be here), en-
tertainment contract forms, sick leave for-
ms, travel forms, evaluation report forms,
graphics order forms, press release forms,
liability waiver forms, application forms,
receipt forms (oh, please, please be here
forms), telephone recording forms,
message forms, security order forms, in-
LTJshould note
A&M’s example
To the editor:
This past week in College Station some
interesting things happened with regard to
the Texas A&M football team and their
head coach, Emory Bellard.
Coach Bellard, it seems, was pressured
into resigning because of two unexpected
losses that the Aggies suffered. It seems
that the Lamar campus should take note of
this.
If the winningest coach in the Southwest
Conference can be forced to resign over
two losses, it seems like something could
be done to bring about a change in
Lamar’s football program that has a
record of 5 wins, 24 losses and 1 tie since
Bob Frederick took over as head coach.
Maybe the problem is that Coach
Bellard was forced to resign over the unex-
pected losses, while here at Lamar Coach
Frederick continues to do the ex-
pected—LOSE.
Marc Mihovil
Galveston junior
tra-campus requisition forms, (fill out fir-
st, react later forms), fish feeding forms
(due today), order forms for brochures,
distribution list forms, mailing list forms,
ticket order forms (oh yeh, I should do that
now), nomination forms, goal planning
forms (I must be getting close now), grant
application forms, travel voucher forms
(was I looking for the question or the an-
swer?), French Quarter menu survey for-
ms, Dear Sir We can’t use your services
reply form, promoter’s form, deposit
form, sign-up sheet forms, computer use
forms, Buckley release forms.
(A question? “Am I busy?”
“Uh, I think I was doing something.”
“What?”
“Okay, send him in.”)
“Hello. I'm taking a speech class and
we’re interviewing university people about
their jobs,” he paused.
“Yes,” I said tensely.
“Could you,” he continued, “please take
a few minutes and tell me what your job is
all about?”
Rifling through my desk, I mumbled, “I
have a form here someplace to explain
that.”
“Pardon,” he said.
“Could you talk to the squirrel for a
minute while I look for THE ANSWER?” I
said firmly.
Bobbie Applegate
Setzer Student Center Programs Director
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By CAROL HOGAN
if the UP staff
Dear old Mirabeau B. Lamar,
why do you sit with that look of calm
superiority in the center of our cam-
pus?
It really agitates me, and I know
you realize it. Once, I thought you
were watching over me, protecting
me as would my guardian angel.
But soon I began to wonder.
Famous “poet,” why don’t you help
me analyze these confusing English
poems that sound like Greek to me?
“Father of public education in
Texas,” are you the one who said I
have to write 5000 words for this
course; and that will only guarantee
me a“C”?
Famous “diplomat,” where were
you when George and I had that
fight? (Mi, “legislator,” are you the
one who wrote the law against
visitation on Mondays and Wed-
nesdays in Brooks Hall?
Oh mighty “soldier,” why didn’t
you help me when that deceptively
innocent-looking dog attacked me on
my late night return from the
library?
Is that why you sit there and smile
so smugly? You think it is funny,
don’t you? As I struggle past with
my load of books, through the
wicked rain, I seem to glimpse you
quirking up your lips in a smile. It’s
not funny, Mirabeau. Why do you
always laugh at me?
That time I walked past you to my
8 o’clock class, with my shirt on in-
side out, you laughed. Don’t deny it.
I didn’t even notice my shirt until
later, but I remember your smile;
and now I know why you laughed at
me—again.
As I walk past you thinking of my
dance class, and despairing over my
style, you roll your eyes heaven-1
ward; and yes, I know what you’re
thinking: “What style?”
But what right do you have to look
I so assured and confident? That’s all
I need—coming home from an ab-
solutely horrid day to see your
smiling, assured face mocking me.:
How do you do it? How do you stay so
calm?
I wrote down your quotes, hoping
that if I tried to learn them and live
by them, I too could adopt that con-
fident and knowing look. Taking,
your first words literally, dumb
freshman that I now realize I am, I
could not help disagreeing.
“It may sometimes be painful to
look at the truth—but we are never
at liberty to turn away from it.”
As I look in the mirror and think of
your words, I understand that the
truth is often painful, but yes,
Mirabeau, we are sometimes “at
liberty to turn away from it.”
“Knowledge is desirable only in
proportion...” Stop right there
Mirabeau. Would you mind telling
my teachers that? A portion of the
work load would be welcome. Okay,
okay, I’ll finish reading it.
“Knowledge is desirable only in
proportion as it increases our
capacity of doing good.”
Gosh, I don’t know about that,
either. First of all, learning does not
improve my disposition, nor my
roommate’s, as one can see by the
torn, battered look of our math
books and tiie dents in our closet
doors.
However, I have to admit my
capacity for doing good has in-
creased— stop smirking,
Mirabeau—it has increased over the
years. So, what other words of
wisdom do you have to impart?
“For our country—God has done
much, let it not be written in the
history of these times that we have
done nothing.” Well, uh, I guess you
have a point there too, but—yeah,
yeah, I am going to read the next
one. Don’t be so pushy.
“It is admitted by all, that the
cultivated mind is the guardian
genius of democracy—and while
guided and controlled by virtue, the
noblest attribute of man.”
Okay, you win. That one really im-
presses me. You certainly had a
cultivated mind, Mirabeau. But do
you think you are the only one who
can be that smart? All right, so I
complained about my homework,
and maybe you got the impression
that I thought campus life was a
hassle, but, uh, I was only kidding.
Just wait, Mirabeau; we will see
who gets a 4.0 GPA this semester. I
am surely going to try. Then we will
see who is smart.
“Well, that is one more student I
have kept from quitting school.
Chalk up another for old Mirabeau.”
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