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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2023, 01:24:31 pm »
Camp isn't great but in this case, but given the variance in form it takes, this is probably the best. "Summer school" generally has a remedial context. "Summer class" is usually for college and the like.

English Camp would probably equate to what was called "Rec & Ed" back home. Half education, half "campy" stuff focused more on activities and crafts.
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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2023, 01:51:10 pm »
Dude, enough. Did you never go to summer camp as a kid?  Were you studying
English or math? Would anybody outside of Korea think, "Oh, yes. Summer camp.
That is where we go and not camp, but to study."

What are you talking about?  Camp doesn't mean you're going to go camping in the woods.  Where did you get that from?  Have you never heard of sports camp or tennis camp?  I went to a YMCA Camp as a kid one summer that was held on the Toronto Islands.  Went on a ferry in the morning and came back on a ferry that day.  It was just sports and games. Camp implies a temporary set up.  There is absolutely nothing wrong about using the term English Camp.  That's what it is. 

Have you ever worked in a public school?  No one studies at camp.  You are organizing some activities around a theme that involves crafts, puzzles, games, meals and maybe watching a film or TV show and you're conducting a fun camp in English.  Ergo; English Camp, which most native speakers at a public school just refer to as winter or summer camp.  It's not like I have a variety of camps going on and need to specify English. 
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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2023, 03:34:33 pm »

I guess. I went to a camp in Ontario called Camp Otterdale.

It was six weeks of swimming, fun, crafts, canoe trips. Pretty
much unheard of in Korea.

That's "my" idea of camp.


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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2023, 03:40:59 pm »
I guess. I went to a camp in Ontario called Camp Otterdale.

It was six weeks of swimming, fun, crafts, canoe trips. Pretty
much unheard of in Korea.

That's "my" idea of camp.

I also went to a camp in Haliburton in Ontario from the age of seven up until was nineteen.  Was a Counsellor and Kayaking instructor and spent two glorious months of summer on a lake for three years.  Some of the best times of my life and I still have close friends from there.  But, I also know there were loads of day camps for losers that got stuck in the city all summer. 


Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2023, 03:43:55 pm »
Yeah, lots of camps are single-subject and don't involve camping.

What, you think Space Camp involves you roasting marshmallows and canoeing? Science Camp? Coding Camp? Basketball Camp? Band Camp?

This is a textbook example of first impression feeling vs. thinking. The word "camp" conjures certain feelings or images for SPQR, and since he is the type that follows his first impulse and believes that his first impulse is correct, he asserts that this is the actual meaning of camp.

Contrast this with someone who thinks- while they may have the first impression that SPQR does, they also consider any examples outside of their definition and work the word in their head to see if in fact, their first thought is true in all cases.



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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2023, 11:10:35 am »
My father didn't let me sleep anywhere else because i contend he didn't trust human nature (i say this because even at my aunt's home he wouldn't relent).

My friends had great summer camp stories of girlfriends,.. er,  . .. girlfriends. (Nothing else was diff than the outdoors swimming, hiking, camping, hunting (i made sure i never hit a hare; had to defeather geese, have documented my disgust here years ago).

I can slit a throat in seconds; and cry afterwards for hours.

My dad was like Clint Eastwood (almost the exact same age), certainly never confronted. I could yelp or sniffle,   
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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2023, 05:19:21 pm »
My father didn't let me sleep anywhere else because i contend he didn't trust human nature (i say this because even at my aunt's home he wouldn't relent).

My friends had great summer camp stories of girlfriends,.. er,  . .. girlfriends. (Nothing else was diff than the outdoors swimming, hiking, camping, hunting (i made sure i never hit a hare; had to defeather geese, have documented my disgust here years ago).

I can slit a throat in seconds; and cry afterwards for hours.

My dad was like Clint Eastwood (almost the exact same age), certainly never confronted. I could yelp or sniffle,   


A few movies have made tears trickle down my face but for the life of me, I can't remember most of them. One that did get to me was 'Legends of the Fall'....so much sad shit happened in that movie. I'm pretty sure 'The Last of the Mohicans' put a lump in my throat, as did 'Mystic River', for some reason.
Nothing as sad as the 'Life and Times of Van's childhood' ,though. That seems like a real tear-jerker.

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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2023, 02:10:28 pm »
Summer Camp = fun and games

We have them at my school and with nary a textbook in sight.


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Re: What movies make you cry?
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2023, 02:16:37 pm »
I watched Good Will Hunting on Friday night. Had a good cry during it.