Posting and English whoring
A few people have complained that I'm not posting. Primarily I've been swamped with work - really swamped. I'm spending the entire weekend grading 90+ 6 page essays (they're wretched too). But there's more than just lack of time, it's lack of energy. For me, writing is not a relaxing or energizing endeavor. It takes a lot of effort for me to put together something worth reading. So that's where I've been... drowned and exhausted.
Now, in all this grading I'm seeing a ton of errors in the writing. Improper use of the word "wrong" has shown up repeatedly, enough that I'm now curious what specificly/technically is wrong (there I go) with the usages I'm seeing. For example:
"The department makes wrong financial calculations."
I would never say that and I can't imagine a native speaker saying it either. "The financial calculations were wrong" or "The department makes poor financial calculations" sound fine. So all you language geeks - what is the problem with the example?
Now, in all this grading I'm seeing a ton of errors in the writing. Improper use of the word "wrong" has shown up repeatedly, enough that I'm now curious what specificly/technically is wrong (there I go) with the usages I'm seeing. For example:
"The department makes wrong financial calculations."
I would never say that and I can't imagine a native speaker saying it either. "The financial calculations were wrong" or "The department makes poor financial calculations" sound fine. So all you language geeks - what is the problem with the example?