Comments | haloolah: patience

haloolah

patience

Nov 24, 2008 13:18

I have none. Why can't our students ever use a pronoun antecedent ( Read more... )

Comments 5

jtglover November 24 2008, 21:12:51 UTC

My sympathies -- that's a peeve of mine as well. :-/

haloolah November 25 2008, 07:09:11 UTC

At least there's only one more week of the semester after Thanksgiving. I'll probably be more sympathetic after a break.

susansbeeswax November 24 2008, 23:37:05 UTC

I was noticing that Friday & this morning in usability studies -- everything was "it, they, it..." *What* it? *Who* they? GNAR!

haloolah November 25 2008, 07:10:29 UTC

Yeah, poor Rick's been grading papers for his three writing classes, and they all do this constantly. He has freshmen *and* seniors. And now you're telling me it continues into the workplace? Sheesh.

susansbeeswax November 25 2008, 07:15:07 UTC

On the upside, these people all happened to be college student age, but... having had to talk to people in the workplace, yeah...