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Last week at a mini debate tournament (it was so small that Y. and I tabbed it in Excel) someone told me about a Russian bookstore in Vienna and I checked it out today. Normal Russian books are still too hard for me: I have some at home but I always give up after a few pages because I understand so little without a dictionary. (Newspaper articles and similar stuff is easier.) Fortunately they have children's books on a language level that suits me: it's not too simple but I understand what's happening, so hopefully I'll pick up more words as I go along. Looking forward to it.

I still haven't solved 2048, though I came close a few times. And actually not wasting more time with that silly game is a good thing, right?
I prefer picture versions to numbers, and here are a few of my favorites:
Pittsburgh Penguins Edition
MCU Hawkeye Edition
Doctor Who Edition
Young Avengers Edition
Geeks & Nerds of SGA Edition

I'm currently following the NHL playoffs, watching Arrow, reading Batfamily fic (...I have no idea, but I kind of feel like I want to rant about Batman a lot except I'm not really qualified) and writing a Young Avengers AU. Fandom is fun.

Comments

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I got as far as Nine on the Doctor Who version. As afr as I can tell the Young Avengers version goes:
Billy
Teddy
Kate
America
David
Noh-Varr
Tommy
Cassie
Eli

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

After Eli comes Vision, and then Loki. I cheated: I looked it up on the page source ;)

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I tried looking on the page source but couldn't find it. Where is it?

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Right-click view page source, and then starting ca. from line 90.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ...That is the perfect Loki picture for 2048, ngl.

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

YOU TABBED A DEBATE TOURNAMENT?! Are you a debate coach too?!

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

You're a debate coach?! So cool! Which format? Where/who do you teach?

I started British Parliamentary debating about three years ago. I'm not a coach (just sometimes a mentor for newbies), but I speak and I judge, and recently I started helping out with tabbing because we needed someone in our club.

Actually we don't really have coaches in our society, just some more experienced members who semi-regularly do workshops, and we sometimes invite coaches/experts from elsewhere or get them to do Skype workshops for us. We're a pretty young debating society, we just had our 10 year anniversary, so we're still developing.

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

I teach Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum debate at a high school in the United States. I'm not sure if either of those things exist in Europe or not -- the former is a moral values debate, and the latter focuses more on public policy. It's fascinating how the slang is the same (like tabbing debate tournaments) even all the way in Austria!

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

I looked the formats up on Wikipedia and they look very interesting! (I've never heard of them here, it's mostly all BP, and OPD in Germany.)

It's a bit strange to me to see how formalized & established debate seems to in the US, it's great that it's apparently sometimes part of the curriculum, even. A major difference seems to be the preparation time for the topic: in BP you always only get 15 minutes.

So during class, do you talk with the students about the current topic specifically, or do you do analysis exercises, rhetorics, stuff like that?