Timeline for Didn't understand joke about No Child Left Behind [closed]
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 17:59 | comment | added | Mitch | @jsw29 Yes, I considered that (that you don't know the answer ahead of time when you ask). But in this circumstance it is simply 'explain this text to me'. Maybe ELU should do that but that would open the door to proofreading and language instruction and such that even English Language Learners doesn't do. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | jsw29 | @Mitch, while the question is indeed off topic, it is one of those tricky off-topic questions, of which one can know that they are off-topic only if one already knows the answer. It is quite understandable that the OP could have thought that 'no child left behind' was some kind of an established idiom. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:38 | history | closed |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:01 | comment | added | Mitch | @Scottie ok, then change 'the joke' to 'this'. ELU isn't an 'explain the passage to me'. English Language Learners doesn't even do that. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 22:43 | comment | added | Scottie H | @Mitch I don't believe the OP is actually asking to explain a joke. I believe the OP is not a native English speaker and just phrased his question inappropriately. Seems he is really trying to understand something about the culture, and not really the joke itself. Since we ARE native speakers, we ought to give him the benefit of the doubt, and, maybe, help him phrase the question better, so he can learn English better. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 22:20 | answer | added | Scottie H | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:56 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Also Chomsky went to school wayyy before NCLB | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:27 | answer | added | Sidharth Ghoshal | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 16:34 | comment | added | Mitch | @raffaem You may not think so but there is a long consistent history of considering jokes as off-topic. Jokes that are based on language (often puns) are usually either directly resolvable by looking up words in a dictionary (and thus more appropriate for English Language Learners) or the humor is very opinion based (which is SE incompatible. If they're not based on language, like the one in the video, then it's totally off-topic. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | robertspierre | @Mitch I don't think explaining jokes is off-topic because there is a "jokes" tag that I found and I didn't made up. Moreover, jokes in the english language may be incomprehensible to foreigners (for example, "Two fish in a tank. One says: “How do you drive this thing?” - this one cannot be translated at least in Italian, because "tank" as container and "tank" as the military weapon have two different words in italian). | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 15:47 | vote | accept | robertspierre | ||
| Nov 23, 2020 at 14:35 | answer | added | hb20007 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 14:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 14:10 | comment | added | Mitch | I’m voting to close this question because explaining jokes is off-topic because it is so opinion based. Explaining social and historical issues is off-topic because it is not about language. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 10:38 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 23, 2020 at 6:14 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 5:25 | vote | accept | robertspierre | ||
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:39 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | MarielS | He might be making fun of the law by implying it makes it ridiculously easy to "excel" in school, even if you aren't actually learning? | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:26 | answer | added | Elliot | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 3:37 | comment | added | Robusto | It's just some ironic humor. Obviously his success in school had nothing to do with the NCLB act. He was just smart. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 3:07 | comment | added | Turin | Not a native speaker, but maybe he used the term in the sense of passing to the next class? | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 3:02 | history | edited | robertspierre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 2:46 | comment | added | robertspierre | @Robusto Yeah I suspected it, what how it does relate to the joke and what he was telling about his chemistry class? I don't find a connection | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 2:45 | comment | added | Robusto | That was the name of a US law: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 2:37 | history | asked | robertspierre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |