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2Likes- 04-Aug-2011, 19:03 #1
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Pen Down Hello people,
can anyone pls explain me the meaning of Pen Down?
- 04-Aug-2011, 19:18 #2
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Teacher Re: Pen Down What is the context?
Originally Posted by prattsishunk 
- 04-Aug-2011, 19:23 #3
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: Pen Down I don't know actually...
Just got an expression on my status, as Pen Down!
That's it!
- 04-Aug-2011, 19:27 #4
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Teacher Re: Pen Down Without context it makes no sense at all to me. Originally Posted by prattsishunk
- 05-Aug-2011, 06:24 #5
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Teacher Re: Pen Down If it's a status for something like messaging, it could mean that the person is not writing anything- inactive.
- 05-Aug-2011, 17:24 #6
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Teacher Re: Pen Down Other possibilities:
- Traditional command given by invigilators after an exam.
- A command in Turtle Graphics - a popular beginners' programming language. (Well, popular about 35 years ago - there was an implementation on CPM, which dates it.).
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See? Context is eveyrthing.
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- 06-Aug-2011, 02:24 #7
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Re: Pen Down Bob, you might find it interesting to know that a bazillion years ago my brother was getting his doctorate at MIT and I got to play with the early, early Turtles. If was way cool.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
- 06-Aug-2011, 09:19 #8
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Teacher Re: Pen Down Wow
Cool indeed! It was such a neat idea - I'm surprised there isn't a version that runs on the X-Box or PS2! (Maybe there is... 
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