SDN lingo

[MonkeyBALL]

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What's with "write the MCATs" and "I made (score)"? I've always used "take the MCATs" and "I got or scored..."?

-confused/curious

 

[Schaden Freud]

It's the Canucks.

What's with "write the MCATs" and "I made (score)"? I've always used "take the MCATs" and "I got or scored..."?

-confused/curious

 

[CptCrunch]

It's Canadianese.

 

[MadHopsMD]

What's with "write the MCATs" and "I made (score)"? I've always used "take the MCATs" and "I got or scored..."?

-confused/curious

I apologize...i am still getting americanized. take it has humour for now. i mean humor

 

[joanofarc0907]

if that is your only confusion, you aren't doing so bad

the vernacular of SDN is quite interesting

 

[MonkeyBALL]

good deal. you guys are fast. thanks.

 

[CptCrunch]

good deal. you guys are fast. thanks.

Not the first time I've heard that before.

 

[Pemberley]

I apologize...i am still getting americanized. take it has humour for now. i mean humor

I thought that commonwealth types "sit" exams... does writing them mean the same thing?

 

[MadHopsMD]

I thought that commonwealth types "sit" exams... does writing them mean the same thing?

I am afraid to correct you with that MCAT score of yours 😀. Correcting you would be like correcting Lt. Col. Samantha Carter.

But here in Canada I have heard the use of both "Write" and "Sit" ...

 

[Robizzle]

What's with "write the MCATs" and "I made (score)"? I've always used "take the MCATs" and "I got or scored..."?

-confused/curious

they mean they actually wrote the MCAT! they're the authors!!!

 

[kypdurron5]

What's with "write the MCATs" and "I made (score)"? I've always used "take the MCATs" and "I got or scored..."?

-confused/curious

I can't stand any phrases which use the word "MCATs." There is nothing plural about the MCAT; it is a test, a single test. Even if you take it more than once each score you make is an individual score. The only time this might be acceptable would be if someone says "How did you do on your MCATs?" ONLY if they know you took it more than once.

/end rant

 

[NY Musicologist]

I can't stand any phrases which use the word "MCATs." There is nothing plural about the MCAT; it is a test, a single test. Even if you take it more than once each score you make is an individual score. The only time this might be acceptable would be if someone says "How did you do on your MCATs?" ONLY if they know you took it more than once.

/end rant

Amen! 👍 👍 👍

 

[Mr. McDuck]

They say "wrote" and "made" in Europe too.