On Mar 6, 6:07*pm, wrote:

Um, while did you were gettin' all that economical-like education in Utah, did
they offer any spelling classes...

Help? *Oh, I think so,
R



Oh sure, in all the Western languages plus. My so-so spelling and use
of profanity are mine, and not the school's fault.

At BYU you could also study spelling in modern Quechua, Aymara,
K'iche', Cachiquel and Orem :-)) ese. How about Yale? Our lab work in
bonehead geology was partly done in a canyon 10 minutes from my dorm.
Our undergrad bonehead science classes were first rate and taught by
real senior scientists. not grad students, in reasonable size classes.
Our dorms were clean and the food was good. How about Yale?

Outside, there was the Provo river on the edge of Campus, full of
Brown trout, further afield the Weber, the Colorado and the Green,
the whole Great Basin, multiple mountain ranges, and then there is
that Utah powder snow, incredible stuff. Much powder snow near New
Haven? :-))

At BYU more than half the student body, citizen and foreign, spoke
English and at least one foreign language, and we used the most
advanced civilian language labs in the country. The music dept did 3-4
fully staged operas a season. Operas, not some half-assed glee club
stuff. All the major US international banks, and all the US intell
agencies recruited heavily at BYU. Even some of the local Utah Guard
units were intel.

BYU tuition was low but the education was not cheap. Cheating was
almost non existent and considered shameful. And admissions and other
standards are much higher now than when I went there. Republican Utah
and BYU shaped my taste for community, centrist Democratic politics
and compromise. Mormons freely GAVE me an incredible educational
opportunity and I still owe them for it.

But BYU is not responsible for my spelling choices.

Dave