Buttersnack

I really have to disagree. In my opinion it's usually a lot easier to use scientific notation and base units than prefixes. I've noticed that at my university all the physics professors and students use scientific notation while the engineering professors and students use prefixes, so it probably just depends what you're doing.

I'm a percussionist (former music major, not a professional musician). While I haven't had experiences as drastic as in the movie, I'd say it was at times "painfully realistic" (with a few exceptions). The movie shows a terrible environment that would absolutely NOT be good for actually learning music, but there are definitely people who approach it in that way. Perhaps the least realistic thing is that this teaching method does seem to somehow make him better at drums in the movie.

It's "octopuses"

Korean is another language where most words are pronounced exactly how they are spelled.

I'm a young composer who hopes to write for wind ensembles and orchestras. What specific things do you like/dislike seeing in clarinet, flute, and sax parts?

I ask because, as a percussionist, it's very easy to tell when a composer knows very little about percussion. Since I don't play any wind instruments, I want to make sure I don't appear clueless about them.