An “international school accent” is a dialect of English that is mostly US/Canadian, but is shaped by exposure to other dialects such as English, Australian, and Kiwi, as well as the local language where the speaker grew up, or the speaker’s heritage language.
An international school accent is most often spoken by an international school student, but generally by people who grew up in environments where multiple native English dialects co-existed.
An international school accent is most often spoken by an international school student, but generally by people who grew up in environments where multiple native English dialects co-existed.
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Definition: A person who is radically authentic, brutally honest, and emotionally "high-resolution." Like the culinary process, their personality is concentrated—rendered down to its purest, most potent form. They wear their heart on their sleeve and possess a magnetic, unapologetic energy that makes them the life of the party.
Key Traits:Intense confit refers to someone or somethng who is brutally honest, wears ther heart on their sleeve, owns up their action with intense emotion. They are usually unapologetically authentic and confess their thoughts/ feelings with passion.
Definition: A person who is radically authentic, brutally honest, and emotionally "high-resolution." Like the culinary process, their personality is concentrated—rendered down to its purest, most potent form. They wear their heart on their sleeve and possess a magnetic, unapologetic energy that makes them the life of the party.
Key Traits:Intense confit refers to someone or somethng who is brutally honest, wears ther heart on their sleeve, owns up their action with intense emotion. They are usually unapologetically authentic and confess their thoughts/ feelings with passion.
"He didn't just apologize for the mistake; he went full intense confit on us, and now the whole team feels more inspired than ever."
"She’s such an intense confit—she walked into a room of strangers and had everyone laughing and sharing their deepest secrets within ten minutes."
"She’s such an intense confit—she walked into a room of strangers and had everyone laughing and sharing their deepest secrets within ten minutes."
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A term from research methodology referring to the factors that can influence a study's results, specifically highlighting the gap between controlled experiments and messy reality. Internal Variables are the conditions carefully managed inside the study—the specific lighting, the homogeneous participant pool, the standardized instructions. External Variables are the chaotic, real-world factors that exist outside the lab—distractions, peer pressure, lack of sleep, economic stress, and the general unpredictability of life. A study's failure often comes from perfectly controlling the Internal Variables while completely ignoring the External ones that actually drive behavior in the wild.
Internal and External Variables "That study proving people prefer classical music for focus is a joke. They controlled for every Internal Variable in a soundproof room. But they ignored the External Variables: my neighbor's barking dog, my phone buzzing, and the existential dread of my unanswered emails. The lab is not reality."
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Internal and External Ecology "The company's Internal Ecology was toxic—backstabbing and silos everywhere. But they ignored the External Ecology: a recession and a new competitor. You can't fix the fish tank's water if the whole room the tank is in is on fire."
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Internal Variables Example: "They thought they were measuring the drug's effect, but the internal variable of participant expectation—they all knew they were getting the real drug—confounded everything. The improvement might have been pure placebo."
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Get the Internal Variables mug.International School of Nanshan Shenzhen, also known as "ISNS", if my memories wasn't annexed by important details related to the Summative Assessments. ISNS is infamous for being the greatest psychiatric hospital in Shenzhen, thousands of rich students is incarcerated in a facility that's in possession of the size of a cabin, with limited functions that perfectly describes the school's scarcity in effective architectural designs. To trap the inmates both physically and mentally, the penitentiary adopted a narrow structure which prohibits the prisoners from arbitrarily wandering on the campus; or, if they dare - laying their fingers or buttocks on any recreational facilities that are absolutely not fabricated to entertain nobody; to trap the patients mentally, the school stipulates a schedule with immense assessments and exams, arranged closely to guarantee no students may take refuge in their precious holidays.
The school's teachers hold an unhindered freedom on deciding the fates of their students, especially the High School math department. For instance, the math teachers retain the right to arrange or alter the curriculums for the entire school year. A 9th Grade teacher sewed lectures of abstract algebra and even precalculus features into the curriculum in the first three units. The assessments in the subject was so advanced that it may as well been created to trial Chinese high schoolers.
The school's teachers hold an unhindered freedom on deciding the fates of their students, especially the High School math department. For instance, the math teachers retain the right to arrange or alter the curriculums for the entire school year. A 9th Grade teacher sewed lectures of abstract algebra and even precalculus features into the curriculum in the first three units. The assessments in the subject was so advanced that it may as well been created to trial Chinese high schoolers.
Student A: I heard the news about few people gettin' stabbed.
Student B: Oh, me too, I reckoned it's really bad. Hope they survive.
Student A: They say the victims irritated the suspect, what an irritation!
Student B: You sound like someone from our school, but anyways, they say the suspect stabbed 'em because he's a student from the International School of Nanshan Shenzhen; they provoked him by uncovering the fact that he scored a 2 on the probability unit SA.
Student A: Gee...
Student B: Oh, me too, I reckoned it's really bad. Hope they survive.
Student A: They say the victims irritated the suspect, what an irritation!
Student B: You sound like someone from our school, but anyways, they say the suspect stabbed 'em because he's a student from the International School of Nanshan Shenzhen; they provoked him by uncovering the fact that he scored a 2 on the probability unit SA.
Student A: Gee...
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Bro 1: Dude did a goth girl come to your house today? Apparently today is International goth girl breaks into your house day
Bro 2: Fuck yeah bro I did, finally got me a goth gf
Bro 2: Fuck yeah bro I did, finally got me a goth gf
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