"partslgavermentslete"

[wishfulaces]

That was a word somebody wrote on his short essay concerning the significance of the Communist Manifesto.

I took one look at it yesterday, when perusing my essays, and dissolved into near-hysterical laughter.

nsempress believes the author of said gibberish (which is in no way related to *my* dialect of gibberish) fell asleep while writing, woke up,

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[jenlev]

oh, i'd be unbearable tempted to write "wtf" in the margins. and i'm sure many teachers took one look at my grammar and wished to do the same. hee!

[wishfulaces]

There was really only one essay this time around that I had to hold myself back from writing "WTF?!" Though there were a couple that made me go, "oh crap, these essays weren't supposed to get *that* political..."

[jenlev]

i had a wonderful history professor who would write "awk" in the margin when i went on a flight of run on sentences. hee!

[wishfulaces]

Let me know when she does, so I have precedence.

*sunny smile*

[troyswann]

Welcome to my world. Misery loves company. er, I mean, "Solidarity!"

[wishfulaces]

Essay-graders of the world, unite! Overthrow the oppressive regime of, uh...students with bad handwriting and no grammar skills!

Instead of writing about it, academics need to organize. Yeah.

[trinalin]

I've not written "WTF?" on a lab report yet, but I have written "What the???" before. And the ever popular "This makes no sense!" And of course, in science, you get a lot of kids writing "Word Soup." Basically, they just use a bunch of terms from the chapter and stick 'em in a sentence hoping they'll make sense. (Often the last resort of short answer test answers). They never do make sense.

[wishfulaces]

I can't even bring myself to write "what the??" Perhaps when I am fully established and look at least a little older than most of my students. For now, I just stick to lots of question marks.

I get something like word soup--where they're throwing in all the historical terms from the chapter/review sessions they can, in the hopes that at least *some* of it will be accurate. It's somewhat disheartening.

[nsempress]

partslgavermentslete

Upon looking at this... amalgation of words, I have decided that it is "parts I government sleet." Which is still gibberish, but maybe they felt it worked in the context they were using it in.

Stand-by for gems. :)

[wishfulaces]

Yeah, when I was looking at it on the computer screen, I was thinking "government" was part of that--phrase--but when I looked at it again on the page...it still looks like nothing in the English language.

Sigh.