within another generation or two, they will be reduced to smacking their forehead, pointing and grunting for what they want...
Posted on 11/23/2013 8:44:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Edited on 11/23/2013 8:46:39 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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
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My mother kept some of her father’s school work where he had diagrammed sentences. She was very proud of him. Schools in the late 1800s to probably the 1940s actually taught. I always said my mother had a much better education than I did.
Thanks, Still Thinking! I just glanced at it, then had to drive my daughters to a party.
All this time, I thought I was teaching, when actually I was engaging in acts of micro-aggression! I kind of like the idea; after all, we Southern church ladies carry a painful burden of suppressed hostility most of the time.
That’s fine with me-we definitely need work in these dismal times, and the language and work-challenged can starve for all I care.
As long as there are motivated people like me to work, understandable English and the best price and customer service will be available-and no one will tell the customer something rude in any language/dialect/slang.
Since you teach English, perhaps you will answer some questions that have been bothering me for the last few years.
Whatever happened to the use of the word “whom”? I never hear, or read, it any more.
What about the subjunctive after a phrase starting with “if”, as in “If I were...”? People now seem to all be saying “If I was...” (grates on the ears.)
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”?
Once English forms pass out of common usage, are they passe? I won’t even touch the mis-use of the apostrophe, my personal crusade.
And then there is “my bad”. Really!
LMAO, and I just had to send that to my contractor compadre-I hope you don’t mind...
Anyway, the students got lazy, got caught and then played the racial card as smoke and mirrors so their original laziness was now not the issue.
Excuse me, micro-aggression?
A lot of his former students are defending the professor.
I think we're seeing evolution of the language. "Lose" becomes "Loose" in about two thirds of the usage I see.
Don't know what "Loose" evolves to; it probably won't be "Looose".
Perhaps "untight" will take the place of loose.
And calligraphy is like NSA grade encryption?
Geeesh! I have an error in that statement! It should read: Whatever happened to the use of the word “whom”? I never hear, nor read, it any more. And, that brings to mind another question. Whatever happened to the word "nor"?
Lazy is the key. Why bother actually learning and doing the work when you should get an A for being black?
Yo. Dissin’ Ebonics be racis.
Yo, mentioning Ebonics is rasis?
Keep it going..
How do the aids that actually do the correcting know? Professors don’t get involved in the mundane task of correcting papers.
Tomorrow, expecting employees to work will be racist. Soon, requiring people to wear clothing will be racist. When we`ve devolved to the point that expecting your fellow man to use toilet paper is a racist mentality, the fan will have fallen into the shyt pool and drowned unnoticed.
I recently brought home boxes of keepsakes and pictures after we sold my 100 year old mother’s house. (She’s in assisted living now.) Amongst a collection of my old school materials I found 2 autograph books collected from my classmates when I was 12 and 13. Although I always struggled sith my handwriting, partly becuase my mind travels faster than my hand and partly because I was just unco-ordinated, my classmates wrote beautifully. Some of them wrote as nice as any teacher. Even a couple of the boys, whom I suspect might be classified as special ed in today’s classroom, wrote better than any of my grandchildren.
I want to know why they suddenly decided to stop teaching cursive? How can these kids take notes? Don’t tell me that they are texting their notes. That seems to me to be highly impractical.
within another generation or two, they will be reduced to smacking their forehead, pointing and grunting for what they want...
Great minds think alike ... I was looking for the “satire” tag too.
Whatever happened to the use of the word “whom”? I never hear, or read, it any more.
What about the subjunctive after a phrase starting with “if”, as in “If I were...”? People now seem to all be saying “If I was...” (grates on the ears.)
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”?
Once English forms pass out of common usage, are they passe? I won’t even touch the mis-use of the apostrophe, my personal crusade.
And then there is “my bad”. Really!
It all started going to the dogs when we became infatuated by newfangled ideas and drifted away from speaking like this:
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wait for it
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wait for it
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wait for it
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It's not racist, it's anti-semantic...
This is all so far out of line it’s unimaginable. This is what comes from them thinking everyone should go to college. Everyone should NOT go to college and everyone should NOT be admitted.
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