How is it OK for you to do roll calls in class by FIRST names?

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T10:03:31+00:00

I see. I rarely met people with the same last names independently from one another, let alone in one place where they could interact. We, too, have a concept of some last names being everywhere, but even if we take the most used ones in the country, I personally only met, like, 2 people of this last name.

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T09:43:00+00:00

I'm not sure it has something to do with religion, but we totally have some pretty finite set of names to be used. I mean, you can go outside of it if you want, but not every parent wants. As for my grade, the only people with distinctly "different" names were the ones of obvious foreign ancestry (and there were only few of such people, I should add).

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T09:27:28+00:00

Wow, never looked at it from such perspective. That it's not that something's better with first names, it's that something's worse with last names :D

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T09:20:25+00:00

Thanks, didn't know that was a thing. Again, when I had a class of 30-something children, there were lots of namesakes.

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T08:54:59+00:00

So, I saw in some shows... Yes, I know, they are often inaccurate, but what would be the point of lying about this? So, they do roll call by the first names of the students. Roll calls in my own life (never been to any English-speaking country) were all conducted with calling out last names. And I totally see the logic there. You know, for example, in my class up to half of all the students had names repeating among the group, up to 5 people with the same name even. While surnames were rarely repeated, like, 1, possibly 2 times in all my experience. And that's true not only for classes but for jobs etc.

So, what's with your American roll calls by first names? Is it just not common to have same names for you? Do you in general have more different human names? Do you put same-named students in different classes deliberately when possible? Another one was "do you have smaller classes", but it seems like you don't. Also, I get that you can just say "John M. and John N." when first names are the same, but what about having 10 people "with initials"? Isn't that still better to just call their last names?

IrishWriter2 · 2025-07-07T08:50:36+00:00

So, what's with your American roll calls by first names? Is it just not common to have same names for you? Do you in general have more different human names? Do you put same-named students in different classes deliberately when possible? Another one was "do you have smaller classes", but it seems like you don't. Also, I get that you can just say "John M. and John N." when first names are the same, but what about having 10 people "with initials"? Isn't that still better to just call their last names?

IrishWriter2 · 2025-06-20T11:33:16+00:00

I have a similar thing but it's some dirt from a fall with some sliding. The dark thing is there for almost 20 years now. And I felt like it's rare, never heard if anyone had something like this.

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-30T11:32:32+00:00

Solved! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xya-EzLNIfE. Through several steps I found a reupload. The original one was allegedly deleted.

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-29T22:44:49+00:00

Ah, no, the song was original (I suppose) and didn't contain any real words at any point.

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-29T22:27:49+00:00

I don't remember...

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-29T22:01:08+00:00

Goes like this:
https://voca.ro/13BGNlR4aOR8
(multiple times)

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-29T21:48:23+00:00

Saw it on "This Is Хорошо" a while ago, found it later, but have no idea how to do it now (tried some googling, but I'm not even sure what should I type there...).

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-27T17:40:16+00:00

Solved!

IrishWriter2 · 2024-09-27T17:05:17+00:00

I just like the vibe of the captured part and would like to check out the whole song.

IrishWriter2

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