This post will be less confusing to English speakers if you replace "backboard" (presumably backformed from the German 'Backbord') with 'port'. :)
Which does raise the etymological question of why English has the Germanic starboard meaning "right, but on a ship" (German Steuerbord, Norwegian styrbord) but not the corresponding "left" - German Backbord, Norwegian babord. What's this "port" stuff?
This post will be less confusing to English speakers if you replace "backboard" (presumably backformed from the German 'Backbord') with 'port'. :)
I did.
What's this "port" stuff?
The english language is messed up as usual.
Although my 8-year-old son likes his teacher, he is frequently bored at school. He attends a high quality suburban public school in the United States. He has a lot of traits in common with LessWrong readers, and we would like advice for what he can do to counter his boredom. Many of you must have found grade school more or less tedious. What were your coping strategies?