Arael1307

Arael1307 t1_ja8htax wrote

Not sure why they put a Swatstika on the can. I looked it up, it's a Taiwanese company. Maybe some of the company owners are very religious and thought it was appropriate to put it on the can as good luck or positive message to it's customers?

I once had some business with a Taiwanese company and each time they sent a pdf file with their promotions, the first page was a quote from the bible with some extra text around it (don't know what, I generally skipped that page). So I know of at least one company that was including the owner's religion in the business. Not sure if this is something that happens often or not.

I'm also not saying this is definitely religion related, but it is the first explanation I can think of.

Edit: I did some more research. Apparantly some Taiwanese restaurants put a swastika symbol out to show they're a vegetarian restaurant. As it is (among other things) a buddhist symbol and some buddhist don't eat meat. So as this is a vegetarian sauce, the swastika is probably just symbolizing that it's vegetarian.

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Arael1307 t1_j5q9ykq wrote

I can't tell you what method will work for you, I can only tell you what method I found worked for me after a few years of struggling really hard in uni.

I discovered 2 important things for myself. Sitting down just reading my book/notes made me feel really tired or lose my focus really quickly. What helped:

  1. When reading my book/notes: I was making a summary, so I was writing things down, trying to put them in an organized/logical manner (in a diagram if appropriate). That way I was more 'busy' more 'involved' than just sitting down and reading. That helped keeping me focussed for longer.
  2. When actually memorizing the stuff, I took one or a few pages of my summary and got up. I generally paced back and forth in my room. Pacing around made sure I felt less sleepy than sitting down.

Another thing that worked well for me was 'teaching'. So I made the summary, tried to memorize a section and then to see if I actually could do it, I 'taught'. I imagined I was the teacher of this course. So I explained the info to my imaginary students. That way I fairly quickly found out what pieces I was good at and which ones I lacked in. Bonus is that I actually had a whiteboard in my room, so I even wrote things down for my students on the whiteboard. I did it a few times until I could do that section completely. Sometimes it was a matter of filling up a few blank holes, so I had to glimpse at my summary. But occasionally I did so badly I had to stop and go back to the memorization stage before returning and doing 'the class' all over again.

Funnily enough, I remember at one point I was 'teaching' English grammar and during my explanation I realized I made a mistake. I remember I actually felt a bit embarrassed and had to tell my students I made a mistake and re-explain an entire section. Just funny how I could actually feel embarrassment, while my audience was completely fictional. Though I am happy to say my students were always attentative, forgiving, never interrupted me or asked annoying questions. :-)

Some people revision audibly, some by writing. For me I thing it was a combination, but writing was more important, whether that was on a sheet of paper or on my whiteboard. BUT writing down did not mean I had to waste huge amounts of time on writing it down. Writing was more of an evidence that I had mentioned the point. I know some people don't even write words but would just write a point or line to show they've mentioned the point.

An example for me. Let's say the question is: What fruits are in the teacher's favorite fruit salad?

Answer:

-Apple

-Grape

-Blueberry

-Melon

-Pineapple

When I reviewed it, I would name the things in my mind or out loud and at the same time write (so quickly, my handwriting was barely legible):

Q: teach fav frtsalad frts?

A:

-Ap

-Gr

-Bb

-Mln

-Pine

It doesn't matter that afterwards these abbreviation didn't make sense. Their only function was to show myself in that instant which items I had mentioned.

I hope there was something in here that was of use to you, even if it was just inspiration leading to a completely different learning method for yourself.

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Arael1307 t1_j2czkkj wrote

Where do you see this happening? Can you give some more context?

English is not my native language, but I come in contact with it on a daily basis. [Internet, work, etc] I've seen writing in English from many native and non-native speakers and never seen (as far as I remember) anyone do this. Apart maybe for stylistic reasons in titles of books or movies (generally they then don't capitilize the smaller gramatical words like 'of', 'and', 'the' etc).

The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe you've specifically met people who speak the same language in which they capitalize every word, so they copied it in English. Like in German all nouns are capitalized, so I can imagine some Germans sometimes making the mistake of capitalizing words in English that normally aren't capitalized in English.

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