what grinds my wheel
One of my biggest pet peeves. Actually, it's most definitely beyond a pet peeve, but it's rather small of me as a person so I hate admitting it.
One of the first things we as humans learn to do is to speak. Effectively, we have our entire lifespans to practice and develop our words. TIHS ABSOLUTELY INCLUDES OUR WRITTEN WORDS. I had high hopes for college, the social institution where the purportedly "educated" go to develop their minds and philosophies (among other things). This naturally precludes the notion that, as graduates of an esteemed education system, students have a certain mastery of the basics of language.
I guarantee that 25-50% of my HONORS rhetoric class would fail to distinguish the different situational uses of the following:
their: there: they're
your: you're
it's: its
That doesn't really anger me so much as the complete lack of interest in self-improvement held by the vast majority of EVERYWHERE. It infuriates me even more that I am here, at a place whose Writer's Workshop is internationally renowned and whose writing program's status is virtually undisputed as the nation's premier and the problem is still prevalent. "Hey, u 2 hott baybee lets go over their to you're room."
If I was ever teaching an honors class and you handed me a paper that had identical structures every other sentence (subject, verb, order, etc.) you can be GODDAMN SURE you wouldn't be getting a good grade. I'm actually a giant douche who would fail you (to be perfectly honest).
If you've been painting for 18 years, you don't hand in a stick figure with two circles on it and call it a nude. Think hard about it, then come tell me what's the problem and what you should do about it.
One of the first things we as humans learn to do is to speak. Effectively, we have our entire lifespans to practice and develop our words. TIHS ABSOLUTELY INCLUDES OUR WRITTEN WORDS. I had high hopes for college, the social institution where the purportedly "educated" go to develop their minds and philosophies (among other things). This naturally precludes the notion that, as graduates of an esteemed education system, students have a certain mastery of the basics of language.
I guarantee that 25-50% of my HONORS rhetoric class would fail to distinguish the different situational uses of the following:
their: there: they're
your: you're
it's: its
That doesn't really anger me so much as the complete lack of interest in self-improvement held by the vast majority of EVERYWHERE. It infuriates me even more that I am here, at a place whose Writer's Workshop is internationally renowned and whose writing program's status is virtually undisputed as the nation's premier and the problem is still prevalent. "Hey, u 2 hott baybee lets go over their to you're room."
If I was ever teaching an honors class and you handed me a paper that had identical structures every other sentence (subject, verb, order, etc.) you can be GODDAMN SURE you wouldn't be getting a good grade. I'm actually a giant douche who would fail you (to be perfectly honest).
If you've been painting for 18 years, you don't hand in a stick figure with two circles on it and call it a nude. Think hard about it, then come tell me what's the problem and what you should do about it.