As a member of the 18-25 demographic that is shelling out +$20,000 a year to get a formal education, blatantly obvious typos piss me off. A LOT MORE THAN THEY SHOULD
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I blame high school :/ I remember my principal would write staffs' continuously instead of staff's when he sent out memos. It was a running joke in the English department.
I also had a teacher that urged the importance of education, and said that we had to graduate high school and that he was smarter than us since he had his degree.
If they have such a hard time spelling it, then they should just use "university." That's even easier to spell--just look at any report anywhere that mentions So-and-So University.
Speaking as someone with a research paper to write in the next week, I fucking wish.
Although actually, if they're at "collage" it would explain why no one in those stories ever seems to spend any time studying, doing homework, or going to class.
Yeaaah. I mean hell - I've done stupid shit and I'm an English MA student/Research Assisstant/Teach University courses....The last paper I got back, which I got an "A" on, I managed to forget to underline a book title. SMOOTH MOVE. But um, that's a tiny thing compared to misspelling all over the place.
Random fact: What's really funny is that every time I hear "College", I think of community college.
I used to pull a O_o?!? when I heard my (American) friend refer to her attending "Yale" as attending "College"
In Canada, we refer to institutions like "The University of Toronto" or "The University of Western Ontario" or "Wilfred Laurier University" (mine) as Universities. College means a Community College.
In Australia, it's the same. Only I sometimes say 'college' offline, too, which weirds people out -- because I spend too much time on the internet, I've picked up quite the vocabulary. And the sad thing is that I get mocked for saying 'candy' now. D: Oh, well.
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I also had a teacher that urged the importance of education, and said that we had to graduate high school and that he was smarter than us since he had his degree.
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Collage...ooooh.
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Although actually, if they're at "collage" it would explain why no one in those stories ever seems to spend any time studying, doing homework, or going to class.
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Random fact: What's really funny is that every time I hear "College", I think of community college.
I used to pull a O_o?!? when I heard my (American) friend refer to her attending "Yale" as attending "College"
In Canada, we refer to institutions like "The University of Toronto" or "The University of Western Ontario" or "Wilfred Laurier University" (mine) as Universities. College means a Community College.
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Congratulations on your A!
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