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Old 06-21-10, 04:22 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
As Takeda already hinted, it is in parts something like a "Themaverfehlung" (=an essay missing the subject). You start to lay out a line of thought that is not too directly related to the questions, and this sideline of thinking you then embark on - in strength. That is a bit like this old joke about a schoolboy who for the exams has learned everything about worms, but then get asked about elephants, and so he starts answering: "The elephant is a big animal with a trunk. This trunk is formed loike a big,m giant worm. There are flatworms, roundworms...etc"
It took me most of my first year of uni to get rid of that habit, it's a tough one to break.

Good luck with the repeat, Lance
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