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Re: the lingo
Trig,
I see your point. It's just that I get frustrated at times, as I try to learn the lingo. To use your example of the flying wedges, I probably need those 5 or more sentences to make sure that I understand them. Once, I *do* understand them, then I can speak about them, but only with other TGMers. Having said that, you're undoubtedly correct that most golfers could not care less about the terminology.
To clarify where I'm coming from as a teacher, I teach U.S. History, not golf, but I believe that the learning principles are the same. Every single day, I take the most important concept of the lesson, and dramatize it with my students.As an example, when I want to show why our first foreign policy was one of isolationism, I walk into the room wearing a diaper over my pants. The kids go wild because I look ridiculous, but they see that we were too young as a nation to get involved overseas. The point is, I go "where the students are" at first. Then I can stretch them intellectually. First I hit them with the slapstick, then they can learn to back up their thesis statements with evidence, etc. They don't need an AI to translate for them and they don't need to learn a new language.
I just feel that Homer's ideas were fantastic, but that the golf world badly needs "TGM For Dummies." Thanks for your thoughtful response.
teach
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