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Archived Discussion => 2009 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => English => Topic started by: magnum on October 30, 2009, 04:59:26 pm

Title: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: magnum on October 30, 2009, 04:59:26 pm
This seemed to cause quite a debate at my school. Personally, I started off by saying 'the writer', but I was getting too repetitive, so eventually I just reffered to Voxi as 'she' lol  :P

How about everyone else?
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: benbatt17 on October 30, 2009, 05:02:02 pm
as it wasnt specified i used Voxi a few time along with the writer and the author for variation but most of the time i didnt need to even use a term to describe Voxi because i varied my structure
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: rajah21 on October 30, 2009, 05:09:53 pm
Haha, I used 'he' because it has only has two letters and 'it' sounded too mean :P
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: dejan91 on October 30, 2009, 05:12:03 pm
By "it" do you mean "Voxi"?
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: phuiii on October 30, 2009, 05:40:40 pm
I just used "the writer" mostly as It didn't clearly state who the author was.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: PepsiMax on October 30, 2009, 05:45:55 pm
'The author'

I think Voxi was just a part of the website.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: krzysiek on October 30, 2009, 05:54:26 pm
It didn't state if Voxi was male or female, so I am not sure how one would come to some solid conclusion of which one it would have been.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: PepsiMax on October 30, 2009, 05:59:18 pm
It didn't even state if Voxi was the writer of the piece or not.

Do not make assumptions.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: benbatt17 on October 30, 2009, 06:00:40 pm
yes it did... at the end it said Voxi so therefore is that no someone signing off at the end of their piece of writting?
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: d0minicz on October 30, 2009, 06:01:15 pm
i used Voxi because they also put that at the end of the piece
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: PepsiMax on October 30, 2009, 06:05:00 pm
I was taught that if does not explicitly state the author's name, you call them the 'writer' or the 'author'.

As you can see, there is mass confusion so I believe that it was not explicitly stated.

I think the examiners will be lenient (I mean, what kind of name is Voxi?).
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: kendraaaaa on October 30, 2009, 06:05:55 pm
I think it's a pretty clear assumption to make that Voxi (an online alias) was the author of the article.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: almostatrap on October 30, 2009, 06:10:15 pm
Haha, I used 'he' because it has only has two letters and 'it' sounded too mean :P

+1

i knew i was not correct but cbf'd
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: skinny on October 30, 2009, 06:23:53 pm
good question! i actually said "Voxi" most times, otherwise it was he. Hope he wasn't actually a she....awkward....
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: mystikal on October 30, 2009, 06:26:00 pm
it doesnt matter which one you put as long as you were constant through out the analysis on using the same one right?
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: benbatt17 on October 30, 2009, 07:09:16 pm
i dont no how you could say it was a he or a she because it didnt say... thats probably one big thing examiners will harp on this year instead of the analysis of the visual image it will be the fact people assumed that Voxi was male or female...
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: kdgamz on October 30, 2009, 08:13:56 pm
thats probably one big thing examiners will harp on this year instead of the analysis of the visual image it will be the fact people assumed that Voxi was male or female...
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: okeydoke7 on October 30, 2009, 08:55:38 pm
I used a maxture of "the writer," "the author" and "Voxi."
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: invalid on October 30, 2009, 09:04:54 pm
"The writer" and when referring to Voxi's arguments/contention "his or her"
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: dejan91 on October 30, 2009, 09:10:17 pm
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=166143802569&ref=nf
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: PepsiMax on October 30, 2009, 09:13:27 pm
"The writer" and when referring to Voxi's arguments/contention "his or her"
This is what I did.

I assumed the author was male though because females don't know how to use the internet.

Someone discovered the author's blog where the article originated from and he is in fact a male.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: sophx on October 30, 2009, 09:47:48 pm
i dont no how you could say it was a he or a she because it didnt say... thats probably one big thing examiners will harp on this year instead of the analysis of the visual image it will be the fact people assumed that Voxi was male or female...

i'm sorry but the gender of the writer has no influence on your writing at all, i highly doubt they will take off marks for something so trivial
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: benbatt17 on October 30, 2009, 10:24:09 pm
hoe can you find the place where the article originated? it is made up from by the VCAA in order to create a fair advantage for all so people didnt analyse the same articles before the exam so thats a load of crap... No the gender may not have an impact but it may when determining between a 9 and a 10... shows a bit about your understanding of the text does it not? whether you could understand that it was not in fact specified as to whether Voxi was male or female
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: Over9000 on October 30, 2009, 10:31:07 pm
Did anyone laugh at the article when they saw superhomosapiens, sounded so much like supersiayan that I had goku powering up to super saiyan in my mind which suked coz it takes him like a couple of hours to fukn power up.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: hxleong on October 31, 2009, 10:10:33 am
I went "the author", "Voxi" and "he"
...at least I'm hoping I didn't accidentally use "she" as well
 :-\
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: green04 on October 31, 2009, 10:29:17 am
do we get penalised for not using the authors name?!
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: kdgamz on October 31, 2009, 12:44:36 pm
Did anyone laugh at the article when they saw superhomosapiens, sounded so much like supersiayan that I had goku powering up to super saiyan in my mind which suked coz it takes him like a couple of hours to fukn power up.

Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: Over9000 on October 31, 2009, 01:51:58 pm
Wait I remember it was homosupersapian, lol even closer to supersaiyan.
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: dekoyl on October 31, 2009, 01:54:13 pm
I used "the writer". Did anyone think of using "s/he" or "him/her" as in including the forward slash as well?
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: Squida on October 31, 2009, 02:14:35 pm
I used "the writer". Did anyone think of using "s/he" or "him/her" as in including the forward slash as well?

yesh :)
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: kendraaaaa on October 31, 2009, 02:21:37 pm
I used "the writer". Did anyone think of using "s/he" or "him/her" as in including the forward slash as well?

yesh :)

Me toooooo
Title: Re: POLL: Language Analysis: Voxi?
Post by: The on November 02, 2009, 02:02:16 am
This seemed to cause quite a debate at my school. Personally, I started off by saying 'the writer', but I was getting too repetitive, so eventually I just reffered to Voxi as 'she' lol  :P

How about everyone else?


ame as me i got sik of saying writer n replaced it with she :)