Re: graphics considered harmful (was Re: NYT on Rick Adams and Microsoft)

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In article <Alex_Currier-1802952134350001@slip-2-86.ots.utexas.edu>, Alex_Currier@attpls.net (Alex Currier) writes:
|> In article <house.792904832@helios>, house@helios.usq.EDU.AU (ron house) wrote:
|>
|> > Who has ever heard a dinosaur roar? In other words, in an encyclodedia
|> > for young children, they are peddling outright fabrications.
|>

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|> I think dinosaur roars, as fabrications go, are the least of our education
|> worries in this country.
|>

So... why didn't they give the dinos a different sound? Perhaps a "meow" or
"purrrrrr" would do the trick. How about allowing the kids to choose their own
sound for the dinos? At least then they'd use a little imagination.

Ken

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