On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:16:50 UTC+1, RJH wrote:
On 26/07/2016 12:14, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 07:21:22 UTC+1, RJH wrote:
On 21/07/2016 13:55, whisky-dave wrote:



justy like they have to with blackboards or sorry we now call them
chalk boards we have white boards now by no black boards.


IME at least you're wrong there. When I did my teacher training
(mid-90s) we were 'told' to use the word chalkboard.

Why ?

Professions generally adopt a lexicon - teaching's no exception.

you'd expect teaching to adopt a more accurate or precise one, well I would anyway.

I'd
guess in this case it was a departmental edict. Why? Fashion, trying to
do the right thing, ill-advised - I don't know.

Which is why I was suspicious...

Sure get rid of a blackboard and replace it with a surface that you can revolve and make it green (because we all know the contrast between green and white is better than between black/white when it comes to chalk)

So whta shay we call this the new blackboard..
no we can;t call it that it's not black.....
it;'s not a board either it;s a rotating canvas so we'll stick with teh word boartd as evertone knows what it it, but we can;t call it a green board that might confuse people so lets call it a chalk board because it's not a board and it's not made of chalk.



The teaching staff
were pretty embarrassed about this, but ho hum.


embarrassed about what ?


Because it was an idiotic idea.

The idea was OK a good one to replace those old blackboards with something better but why use the name they did.


Even when I was at school, this came up in the mid 70s.
The physics lab had a green board installed.
As I pointed out to my coloured friend who'd I'd be introduced to as chalkie

IME, non-white people don't like being referred to as coloured. Or
chalky, unless they happen to like Jim Davidson.

After a year when we started 6th form he asked us to not call him chalkie any more. It was difficult to start with as any name change can be, but eventually we managed it.


a year or som ealier. We could understand why it should be called a blackboard because it was no longer black or a board, but it was called a chalboard.
NOT a green board or a blackboard, and considering it wasn't even a board we asked the physics teach why we were calling it a board. when it;s a bit cloth that goes up and down. he just said he;s calling it a a chalkboard from now on.
Well he tried to and got a bit annoyed when we shouted out chalkbaord when ever he asked us to copy down what he'd written on the black board.


Sounds a hoot.

He had slight speech defect and when he said fundamental (in a noisey class) it sounded like "thump a mental" so we all started hitting each other. Physics could be quite boring until the smiley meters came out (AVOs)