[0317] White Knight
└ posted on Monday, 17 October 2011, by Novil
The current story arc started with this comic: Irrhetorical Question.
- Landon: Call me a naysayer, but I don’t think it’s possible to learn geometry through osmosis with a math book.
- Larisa: I don’t understand this stuff at all.
- Landon: Can’t you just ask somebody?
- Larisa: Sandra’s sick, Cloud’s not exactly a math genius, Justin prefers playing stupid soccer, Tim’s not answering his phone and my parents are in Boston.
- Landon: Well, I guess I could help you…
- Larisa: You could?
yeahhhhhh smart people!
Hope comes in a sweater vest!
Okay seriously! Why must smart ppl always talk like if they were martians? 😀
Also yaaay for a more positive view of Larisa by the page. :3
I bet this boy will get a pretty long smooch if it works lol
@ Chelis:
Heh ! Who knows ? ^^ Maybe it will utrn out that way.
@ Holly dooly:
*turn
hmmmm………
Learning through osmosis……
I say it’s worth looking into.
Landon and Larisa sitin’ in the library G-E-O-M-E-T-R-Y
Had to say it
Sorry, Zenn – too many syllables.
Not for lack of trying, though! 🙂
sweatervests are so classy.
@ gaboris:
It comes naturally with a huge vocabulary 😉 …. the rhyme was not planned. And it is not a good rhyme…
D’awwwwww, say it with me, d’awwwwwww.
Landon, you approach the fire, but can you handle it?
@ IndigoRei:
Some people from various countries have silly myths to imporve their learning skill.
In Japan stuff were written in small papers so it can be easily carried around, when the student feel they already mastered it, they eat the paper.
Also internationally believed you can sleep while wearing a headphone that playing the objects you study while you sleep.
And in Indonesia after you learn and remember the things you want to know, you burn the paper and mix the ash with a glass of water and drink it.
And in America (or is it internationally?) you can create a fun way to shorten some formula to a catchy songs/poems/words.
And many more.
@ Zenn:
Or: Larisa and Landon are in the library, doing her geometry. First comes math, then comes a crush. Then their lips come close and Landon tells her hush. [You can tell Larisa is the focus of the “poem,” because Landon doesn’t get replaced by a pronoun.] Cloud she doesn’t miss, when they first kiss. <3
I’m the only one who’s thinking that she’s going to forget about his existence after an “A” and will only remember about him after another “F”???
well….you know…a Girl did that to me once and after she got a low grade again she came after me …too bad I helped her to get worse
maybe it was cruel…but I don’t think someone could understand me…
@ AckAckAck:
Could you share more of those? It’d be fun to see all sorts of learning myths/quirks that people from different cultures have. That last one though, are you talking about mnemonics? Because those aren’t a myth, and are actually incredibly helpful in learning just about any subject (like PEMDAS for order of operations [math!]). Maybe Larisa will have a few from this tutoring session. 🙂
@ gaboris:
It comes quite naturally, I do this all the time much to the embarrassment of my less linguistically literate brother.
According to my AP Biology teacher in high school, the reason I did so well while sleeping during every lecture was cause I was sleeping on my book and learning through osmosis XD
lol he gets his just friendship (ahh, the kindly nerd)
Landons a liar. the book i not water, therefor its diffusin not osmosis! Nobody liten to this lies or you will end up with a B+!
I’m a new reader of this comic, i just caught up today and i love it!! oh and i found it really interesting that in the little poll questions on the side, i happen to be in the majority for all of them lol
Then the day after Larisa begins to use brackets, glasses a sweater and also begins to speak in a geeky manner.
@ Ken:
Well, I only know one more, in Japan some students will buy/getting charm from a Shinto temple so they can have good luck doing exam.
also NEVER EVER saying words (in Japanese, but I try to translate it to English) Slipped or Fall to studying for exam students, because the words are identical with failure.
The whole destroying notes thing probably originated as a statement of confidence of having mastered the material to the point where the notes were no longer needed. In ancient Israel, scribes would copy the Torah scrolls and check each row and column to make sure each letter was in the right place. Once they were certain the copy was identical to the original, they’d burn the original unless they needed more copies.
You know what? Forget the knight in shining armor; his armor’s still shiny because he doesn’t do jack. I’ll go for the ninja any day. 😀
I already feel sorry for the boy. He obviously doesn’t know Larissa like we do.
HEY! IT’S GUNTHER FROM LUANN! (LOL!!!)
@ firedome:
(actually, Gunther is nowhere near this bold…)
Landon? he should change his name to ‘good guy’ Greg. Cause that’s what he is. Not even I’m that nice, and I’ve given back change to a cashier who gave me too much money….
Aww, I like this new guy already. He’s an honestly nice kid and I hope Larissa doesn’t drag him into her self-destructive spiral of nonsense and chicanery.
He looks like a mature version of Kosuke Ochi, from Hikaru No Go. So I think he is smart as hell and have his selfish sides like stubbornes. So Larisa have to learn a lot, to get him satisfied with the result.
@ Virtual Adept:
Oh darn, I knew he looked kinda familiar, and I sure can see the resemblance now that you mentioned it.
If he has similar personality. Oh dear, poor Larissa.
Got to admit, for many other webcomics I’d be sure he’d get hugged/kissed to flusterdom, but… I am not too certain with Sandra&Woo. He might turn out to deny Larissa’s thanks, with a girlfriend already on tow. Bet that would twist Larissa pretty badly for a bit.
i would just like to take this opportunity to say NEEEEEEEERRRRD!!!
*cough*
Is Larisa gonna makeout with Landon as a thank you? Lord knows that girl loves to kiss.
@ gaboris:
Fellow human, we do not talk like the people of Mars. We, like other Earthlings, converse only in the native tongues of humanity.
Intelligence correlates with significant socio-linguistic variation, although this more likely indicates a correlative relationship between intelligence and other cultural factors, rather than any causative property associated with these variations inherent in the level of intelligence itself. Similarly, certain speech patterns distinguish individuals as intelligent according to preconceptions of the outward markers of intellect. To some degree this drives a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’; people of greater intelligence are believed to have certain linguistic, physical, behavioural, and other characteristic markers, and these markers are believed to indicate people of greater intelligence, so the conclusion based on the observation skews the observation in favour of that conclusion.
Of course, other times we’re just showing off.
The guy’s just pretending to be smart – if he was as clever as he makes out he would know that Osmosis is the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane, and so the word clearly does not apply to this situation.
I can so see where this is heading
Darth GW7 wrote:
It does if he’s referring to the ink on the paper, not the paper itself.
Is thispossibly the beginning of a… REAL RELATIONSHIP!? For LARISA!? (Gasp!)
Here comes a new challenger!
Darth GW7 wrote:
Have you ever heard the term “learning by osmosis” before? It’s actually a fairly common joke.
@ Kitch:
@ Ivresse:
Never heard of it before, myself!
And osmosis refers to water and water alone – aka good ol’ H20 molecules!
Alright, enough of me being a smart-arse.
As long as Landon don’t try playing Truth or Dare with her he should be just fine… 😀
Now THAT’S my kinda man. <3
@ Darth GW7:
Aha, perhaps Wikipedia says it only applies to water, but look here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/osmosis
Hey, soccer ain’t stupid! And it is called Football, when are you Americans gonna learn some proper English?
Well not Learn though osmosis. It Does present one wth a number of examples to refer back to though. Also, vests attract fellow vests, just a force of nature.
@ AckAckAck:
Internationally. Coming from german. called Mule-bridge here because it#s so easy that even a mule can remember it.
BTW as far as i remember writing something on a paper and eating it is supposed to help overcome fears in Japan.
@ cmL:
Yes but in America Football is that game that’s a little like Rugby. Football might work in england since noone knows the real football there but…yeah in america that won’t work.
And i say that beeing neither