NaBloPoMo #17 - Linguistic WTFery

Nov 17, 2008 18:58

1. The sad, sad state of college EnglishBy Michael Olesker ( Read more... )

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ladybluestar November 18 2008, 13:17:59 UTC
“I was absent on Monday because I was stopped on the Beltway for erotic driving.”
Well, as we don't know what the student was doing, it might have been erotic driving... lmao

Otherwise, yes, that is very disturbing, but not at all surprising.

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annearchy November 18 2008, 14:46:27 UTC
I haven't figured out yet what erotic driving is...

Ohhh... maybe s/he meant 'erratic' driving. That could work. So was s/he driving erratically or someone else? Hmmm.

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shantari November 21 2008, 16:42:49 UTC
I'm reminded of once when I was teaching and a kid (that was very obviously lying) said "It's true, I swear on my momma!" (in Swedish, this is a rough translation) and I said to him "I don't care if you swore on your momma!" to which the kid replied "I not swore, I swear on my momma!"
At which point I went through each of the temperal forms of swearing in Swedish: Svär, Svor, Svurit. And then angrily added that the class in question was supposed to be one in math, and not Swedish...

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