Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

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I was in open lab practicing things from my lab the day before. I was talking to a classmate and I mentioned the word larynx but I pronounced it wrong. It's a new word for me so I'm not going to be perfect at pronouncing it. The professor there noticed I pronounced it wrong and corrected me. Then he went on to give me an example of if I were a nurse and he brought his kid to me and I mispronounced a word to him I would be little less of a nurse. In the sense that I was not as competent as a nurse who could pronounced words correctly. He understood that it shouldn't make you less of a nurse but to him it does. I know it's just his opinion and opinions are like mouths everyone has one. I just didn't like the comment nor did I expect this from him. What do you guys think?

I think how you pronounce words can indeed reflect on how others think of you as a nurse. Nurses are expected to be perfect, doctors too. I realize people are not perfect, but if I went to see a doctor who couldn't pronounce the name of a medication, for example, I'm not sure I'd feel too confident in taking it.

By the same token, it took me awhile to pronounce "thimerosol" correctly.

It isn't necessarily fair but that's the way it is.

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All right, word usage stickler.

Don't make me pluck OUT my eyeballs and throw them @ U 2!

Boy, you try to have a little hissy fit, and somebody has to haul out the editing pencil. Totally deflates the drama. Thanks a lot! :D

I just thought...considering the thread and all...well, you know :D

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I got a new phone last year with a pull out keyboard, and it's almost as good as a keyboard, so I can revert back to standard English easily, which I find myself doing by habit, with capitals, punctuation, etc...

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I got a new phone last year with a pull out keyboard, and it's almost as good as a keyboard, so I can revert back to standard English easily, which I find myself doing by habit, with capitals, punctuation, etc...

It is just really hard for me to leave that behind . . . . . :coollook:

My phone just has the standard teeny tiny keys - phone keys. It took me forever to figure out how to change the input method, where to find the periods, exclamation marks, question marks, etc . . . . :rolleyes:

steph

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Mine has a handy little button to change to punctuation marks. It's nifty!

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These kids can do blind texting, I've heard. It's similar to passing notes like we used to do, but they do it with their cell phones.

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These kids can do blind texting, I've heard. It's similar to passing notes like we used to do, but they do it with their cell phones.

Yes they can . . .I've seen my daughter do it.

Crazy.

steph

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It's just a high tech version of an age old custom. Silly, huh, to use a satellite connection to pass notes at school. :rolleyes:

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It's just a high tech version of an age old custom. Silly, huh, to use a satellite connection to pass notes at school. :rolleyes:

My sis-in-law is a teacher and they don't allow cell phones in class. You have to keep them in your lockers or they get confiscated.

Kids were caught cheating in class . . . . :rolleyes:

Way back when, the first time I was in college right after high school, I was teaching a student who was blind and had cerebral palsy to type. People kept asking me . . "How do you teach a blind person to type?". Well, we all are supposed to just type by feel . . those who peek at the keyboard are cheating~ :D

steph

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. Well, we all are supposed to just type by feel . . those who peek at the keyboard are cheating~ :D

steph

Guilty as changed. :chuckle

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My sis-in-law is a teacher and they don't allow cell phones in class. You have to keep them in your lockers or they get confiscated.

Kids were caught cheating in class . . . . :rolleyes:

Way back when, the first time I was in college right after high school, I was teaching a student who was blind and had cerebral palsy to type. People kept asking me . . "How do you teach a blind person to type?". Well, we all are supposed to just type by feel . . those who peek at the keyboard are cheating~ :D

steph

Any of my professors (I'm working on my B.A. in English) who caught a student texting in class would have a cow - "See me after class" with a threat that if it happens again, the student will be flunked for the semester.

A lot of colleges are banning notebook computers in class because students use them to check their Facebook or MySpace pages. I used to use my notebook to take notes in MS Word.

Plus, in Thailand and a few other countries in Asia, it is illegal to use cell phones to cheat on exams. It's prosecuted as computer fraud. Several students went to jail at a Thai university some years back for setting up an elaborate system to cheat on exams via cell phone.

I took 10-stroke typing in junior high years ago, and it stuck with me. I can type 50 wpm blind.

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xbox, i'm w/you.

while i am faster than i used to be, it still takes me forever to text.

i am now mastering what i want to say w/few words.

we pay $10/month for unltd texting (family of 5).

well worth it, too.

leslie

I broke down and got unlimited texting. I do wish that cell phone companies would make texting optional instead of an always-active feature that cannot be turned off or refused though. The 15c/message deal is a racket.

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