Luckily, I carry a Sharpie in my bag.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Honors students need not apply.
A large sorority has blanketed the bulletin boards in my building with a flyer that reads:
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The really sad thing is, some of the sisters may actually think you are (wrongly) defacing their signs.
*sigh*
Never stop trying to make people "get it"! Sharpies are so useful. :)
PS: I still have sentence structure issues and real problems with verb tense agreement. Maybe I should have been in a sorority?
There's something in the air right now. I just got a flyer (sent university-wide, to all faculty mailboxes) advertising the annual LSU holiday craptacular, "sponsered" by the XYZ group. And then this morning's university news bulletin (mass emailed to all faculty, staff and students - probably over 60,000 people) talked about a memorial service for a student who "parished." Dear lord.
Ack.
That, along with confusion over they're/their/there is one of my biggest grammatical pet peeves.
I too, would have taken a sharpie to that sign.
Fabulous blog, by the way. A friend just pointed this out to me.
I hate poor grammar. My biggest pet peeve, however, is the word orientated. I saw the cover letter for a job application the other day from someone applying as a proofreader in which they claimed to be "detailed orientated." I about screamed.
Maybe this will be the push I need to buy one of those mini-sharpies. There are so many signs on campus that need to be corrected.
Doh! I had to read the comments before I even noticed the grammatical error. Hey. I'm a musician.
What gets me are the many announcements in my inbox that lack date, time, location, or other crucial info. As if they are taunting me--they want me to know about the event, but they won't give me the info I need to actually attend. But sharpies don't work on email. *sigh*
My (least) favorite is the use of the term "novel" to refer to any book. Eg.: referring to Escape from Freedom by Eric Fromm, "I really enjoyed this novel." I warn against this at the beginning of the semester. "A novel is a work of fiction. Don't piss off the prof!"
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RE. the last post -- I teach an intro to art history course, and quite a few students on their final exams referred to any work of art as a "painting," even if they were discussing a sculpture or print. I chose to read this as a brain-freeze due to exam stress, but really, COME ON PEOPLE!
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