Professor: Students Held Sit-In After Complaining Grammar And Punctuation Corrections Were Racist

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[ilovesarah2012]

Current and former students in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies expressed their support for professor emeritus Val Rust following a demonstration in one of his graduate classes last Thursday.

Student demonstrators alleged that there is a

[gundog]

I forget the issue...may have been Zimmerman trial. There was a black, Harvard educated female lawyer, middle-aged, that said “’posta” rather than “supposed to.” I had to cringe...like being around the local illiterates.

[Graybeard58]

I grew up in the same era as you and the following is me to a "T":

I had the most difficulty with commas, and the difference between dependent clauses and independent clauses

Makes me think, "ummmmmm".

[gundog]

BTTT

[Still Thinking]

Perhaps "untight" will take the place of loose.

And if something's really really loose (like loooooooooose), will that make it double-plus-untight?

[Still Thinking]

Why do so many people (especially those Ivy League-educated news readers on TV) get away with saying “me and him” instead of “he and I” and other such offenses? Or, “John gave it to Brian and I” instead of “John gave it to Brian and me”?

One of my pet peeves, especially since it's hard to see why it's hard. People who would never say "John gave it to I" are suddenly at a total loss when faced with a compound subject or object. Seriously?

[untenured]

"Is," because as a pronoun "what" needs a referent, and here the referent is not the plural entity "people" who are responsible for my being bothered, because it has yet to be established that I am in that state. The referent for "what" is "the condition that you are about to learn has caused me to be bothered," and that condition is "the existence of people whose English is so poor."

I perhaps for completeness could've written "What bothers me is the subset of people whose English is so..." or "What bothers me is that there are people whose English is so..."

[untenured]

If it makes you feel better, objective pronouns and the subjunctive are well- and oft-used in my household, including by the children. :) More generally, I think we just have to accept that the language changes, partly for reasons of laziness and social decay. The good news is that people who use it properly, and are more likely to be fun to be around, are now easier to spot.

BTW, I didn't mean to ping you to post 86; sorry about that.

[Texan5]

I can easily count the people I know who still use that phrase in correspondence. There are people who abbreviate or shorten every other word in e-mails, as if they are texting, and have limited space-I always want to highlight every “RU”, “CU” “WTF”, and send it back to them, with everything written out.

[bgill]

Lynzee apparently hasn't found a wealthy husband and her FB lists “People against Sheriff Joe Arpaio” among other telling kinks.

https://www.facebook.com/lynzee.stauss

[kitchen]

Sadly, most students graduating from high schools are not prepared to do college work.

[Salvation]

Our exchange student from Argentina told us that there the children learn to write cursive first, because their pen or pencil never leaves the paper. Much faster.

Then in high school they learn manuscript.

[kearnyirish2]

“Parading around with a placard somewhere and chanting mindless slogans is a lot easier then sitting down and learning correct grammar and punctuation.”

As much as I bemoan the falling education standards, I’m glad these turds won’t be competing with anyone I care about for a job. I’ve had others tell me the same when we started importing Asians to undercut white collar wages; no matter how many degrees they have, if they can’t send a coherent email or write a letter their options are limited.

[Salvation]

Take a Parts of Speech Quiz

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_speechparts_beg.htm

noun
pronoun
adjective
verb
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection

[Salvation]

Not ten

noun
pronoun
adjective
verb
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection

Take this test.

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_speechparts_beg.htm

[ladyjane]

I would have always assumed that a dissertation proposal with any grammar or spelling errors would be automatically rejected.

Any professor who would correct spelling on a dissertation proposal is - to put it nicely - suspect.

[informavoracious]

It all started when her parents named her “Lynzee.”

[ladyjane]

A lot of his former students are defending the professor.

Great idea to let illiterate education 'doctoral' students evaluate the professor.

[bubbacluck]

Great idea to let illiterate education 'doctoral' students evaluate the professor.

According to what I read, his students are defending him based on their observation that he is not racist. They are not evaluating him.

Big difference.

[OldPossum]

Even the Ivy League dimwits couldn’t even know the difference between “lose” and “loose”.

That would also be true of a huge number of Freepers. I see it all the time.

[max americana]

“That would also be true of a huge number of Freepers.”

Yup. Tis’ true. ;)I’ve seen it as well. I even read one calling the subject a “looser”.