Talk:Writing lines

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Did you know... that writing lines (example pictured), as cartoon character Bart Simpson does on a chalkboard, has survived even as other forms of school discipline have fallen out of favour?

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Romanes eunt domus

Domus is not *to* the house (a destination - which should use accusative case for destination domum), but *the house* (a subject - nominative case domus) It is correctly stated in the entry about the movie, but not here, so I corrected (or I replaced it with the incorrect original meaning as in the movie). DrYak 11:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See the article Romani ite domum. 195.191.67.226 (talk) 10:37, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Everywhere?

"Lines is a form of punishment handed out to misbehaving students by people in a position of authority (teachers, prefects etc...) at schools all across the world."

Says who? There are no references here. We didn't do "lines" at my school (Coulsdon High), and we can't have been the only one...

WikiReaderer 15:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Schools all across the world) != (all schools across the world).40.0.96.1 12:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Simpsons chalkboard gag.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Effectiveness

It would be nice to have some discussion of the effectiveness of this punishment, or lack thereof. There seems to be something here [1] 195.191.67.226 (talk) 10:39, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

More history would be nice

Here is Ontario 1865. Here is an 1868 English description. Here is a description from 1876 Quebec. Here is a description from 1887 Pennsylvania. Zero^talk 12:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]