Posted on 11/03/2016 7:45:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bronx Latina wants to teach her professor a lesson.
Tiffany Martinez said in a blog posting last week that she was publicly humiliated when one of her professors at Suffolk University in Boston accused her of plagiarizing her sociology essay simply because she used the transition word “hence.”
She said the professor rudely tossed the paper back to her in front of the class, saying loudly, “This is not your language.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I use that word in laying out reasons for doing something.
Most of my speech is not performing that function.
The professor is not as intelligent as he pretends to be.
It is no surprise at all that he is teaching law.
Would you rather be called antiquated?
That wasn’t what the professor was saying. She was not saying that it wasn’t a Hispanic word, but that wasn’t the way she usually writes her reports.
Maybe the professor did google phrases in her report to see what would come up.
Por consiguiente, el Prof es un tarado.
Prefer Antediluvian. Antiquated makes me feel too modish.
She should have said “like, you know”.
The teacher asked her if she knew what it meant. My daughter said, “Of course, do you?”. Teacher got a funny look on her face and that was the end of the conversation.
Oh, when she was in grade school and the teacher sent home notes to the parents, my daughter would correct the spelling and grammar and give the note back to the teacher. We did not know until the end of the year that she was doing this. The teacher complimented her and said that she (the teacher) was scared to death every time she sent a note to the parents, knowing what might be coming back. She said that our daughter made her clean up her act. ;o)
You can not judge a book by its color nor the author’s last name.
La Verdad!
Tengo sueno, ahora me voy a la cama.
I’ve done that all my life. Writing and speaking are two different arts and people adjust each to the audience they are presenting to.
Heck I can use Hillary’s fake southern accent as a speaking example of the same. ;)
Maybe the student should have used “ergo”.
Or maybe he (or another prof) told her previously not to reuse the same words/phrases in her writing so many times and she was using a thesaurus to improve her writing...I’ll take the bet on the side of the latter.
suenos con los angelitos...
lol. I can write very well when I want to but speaking, I’m just a Staten Island gavone.
I can switch to Formal when in a meeting etc., but the natural way is the first.
What can ya do :)
Eh? Cite the source?
Maybe she just heard the word the day before and thought it sounded good. After all, in college, sometimes students like to throw around lesser-used words they have picked up, to sound smart. Hence, the usage.
Now, if the prof can come up with copied or near copied text, that is a different story, of course.
For my own part, prior to tonight, I have not used the word “hence” in anything I’ve written, for months, to the best of my recollection. However, having read it here, now I might find reason to use “hence” again, tomorrow. I’ll wager I have not even used the exact word “recollection” any time recently. Nor do I habitually use the word “wager”, and “habitually” does not often pop up in my lexicon....
Ok, I’ll stop, so as not to disrupt the convivial (HA!) atmosphere here on FR. But, it was jolly for a moment! :-)
Yeah, my kids make fun of me when my SW Indiana country starts to come out after a few drinks....warsher instead of washer, etc. lol
If we met and had some whiskey we’d be doubling over at our accents :)
I’ve heard myself on tape and was horrified :)
My sister was similarly accused of plagiarism at college, with a professor saying a paper she wrote was too well written. My sister is rather shy and unassuming, which I guess is all the professor saw, but our family is somewhat literary, so the quality of my sister’s work should not be surprising for someone from that background.
I’m at the stage in life (60) where I see ‘age’ as something of an achievement. An ‘achievement’ (Cogito, Ergo Sum) worth celebrating from time to time, with one’s favorite movie, music, meals , media and make-out-artists.
I was driving home this afternoon at a bit of an unusual time for me, flipped on the radio, and caught Hannity with a montage of (I think) “person on the street” questions. Apparently (I missed the beginning), first, some white libs were asked about the supposed suppression of black voters by voter ID laws. They agreed strongly, with most referring to supposed difficulty of blacks to get I.D.’s. Then a series of blacks were asked about this “difficulty”, and what they thought of people who thought they were incompetent to even get an ID. The blacks thought this was ridiculous, and that people who thought them somehow incapable of getting an ID were racist or ignorant. (The blacks were right.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.