She Stopped the Class
I feel like Semantics is an alternate universe. I'm really not sure I understand it, but apparently I'm pleasing the right gods.
My semantics class is difficult, I have trouble following it and focusing during lecture. I skimmed the book. It's a decent size lecture, 1 hour and 15 minutes, mostly graduate students except for me. Last time we turned in an assignment, I swear she told us we should type our assignments, but when I passed up my typed assignment she stopped, demanded to know in front of the whole class whose it was. I timidly said, "oh, my name should be on it." and she said, "Oh, it was so beautiful that the name blended into the typing."
Then today I walked in nearly 10 minutes late, bowed my apologies in embarassment but before I could open my mouth her face lit up and she said, "You're Stephanie!" and stopped her lecture which was well underway to give me back my homework with 100 percent on it. Flawless. Not even a typo in the world of linguistics in which 5 errors is as close as you usually get to perfection. She stopped the class to make everyone wait so she could dig up my homework.
There's only one possibility here: there is a conspiracy at work. People are conspiring for me and I don't deserve it.
And I must say, the woman has a gift for rhetoric.
Student: "Why aren't 'the' and 'a' treated the same? They're both called articles, so why is 'the" a determiner here?"
Teacher: "What, and that makes them the same?"
Student: "Well, people call it the same."
Teacher: "Who?"
Student: "I don't know, people in books."
Teacher: "My uncle calls them that too, but we don't listen to him."
And it's demeaning rhetoric, FTW!
LOLOL the best part is that this student guy is a tool.
My semantics class is difficult, I have trouble following it and focusing during lecture. I skimmed the book. It's a decent size lecture, 1 hour and 15 minutes, mostly graduate students except for me. Last time we turned in an assignment, I swear she told us we should type our assignments, but when I passed up my typed assignment she stopped, demanded to know in front of the whole class whose it was. I timidly said, "oh, my name should be on it." and she said, "Oh, it was so beautiful that the name blended into the typing."
Then today I walked in nearly 10 minutes late, bowed my apologies in embarassment but before I could open my mouth her face lit up and she said, "You're Stephanie!" and stopped her lecture which was well underway to give me back my homework with 100 percent on it. Flawless. Not even a typo in the world of linguistics in which 5 errors is as close as you usually get to perfection. She stopped the class to make everyone wait so she could dig up my homework.
There's only one possibility here: there is a conspiracy at work. People are conspiring for me and I don't deserve it.
And I must say, the woman has a gift for rhetoric.
Student: "Why aren't 'the' and 'a' treated the same? They're both called articles, so why is 'the" a determiner here?"
Teacher: "What, and that makes them the same?"
Student: "Well, people call it the same."
Teacher: "Who?"
Student: "I don't know, people in books."
Teacher: "My uncle calls them that too, but we don't listen to him."
And it's demeaning rhetoric, FTW!
LOLOL the best part is that this student guy is a tool.