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asgysi949

Tuesday, Dec 08 2015

What about the question of anticipating certain trends for given months? If you want relatively favorable sections depending on your strengths could you have a sense of what the trend might be ahead of taking the test? I remember people saying LG threw them off particularly in June and Dec for example.

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Tuesday, Dec 08 2015

asgysi949

Conditional language

Take the statement (drawn from an actual stimulus) that says "the habit of volunteering cannot be said to have been fostered in a person who has not yet volunteered for anything" and put it into a conditional statement. Would it be if Habit of Volunteering then Volunteered? I try to see what is indicated as the necessary condition in translating into conditional language from statements without indicators. Is this a good idea? Are there other senses or intuitive skills you can use to translate complex sentences?

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asgysi949

Tuesday, Dec 08 2015

Here's my interpretation: there are sets of disciplines, though populated by educated people, that are nevertheless filled with verbose and abstract prose that tends towards ego-centrism. These disciplines reject the straightforward and technical use of terms (vector of meaning) in favor of the flowery and ambiguous because of its idiosyncratic character.

In other words, certain professions like philosophy can be mired in pseudo-technical terms that dress otherwise simple words into complicated ones for the sake of sharing a language that makes you distinct from other "non-philosophers." But the whole point of language is communication and that's undermined by the use of excessively abstruse prose.