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“Kids today can sit on their phones for hours, not even saying a word.” | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. July 31, 2015. 8220;Kids today can sit on their phones for hours, not even saying a word.”. The problem is merely the choice of verb and its modifiers, but the image for the reader is something else again. My own phone is smallish and flat, but still I think sitting on it would be sufficiently uncomfortable that I would not want to do it for hours, and if I. To sit on it for hours I am sure I would have some words to say, most of them unpublishable. Their phones for hours”. Student...
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“Everywhere you go, you’ll indefinitely see people glued to their phone.” | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. August 6, 2015. 8220;Everywhere you go, you’ll indefinitely see people glued to their phone.”. Another phone essay, another bizarre image. People glued to their phone. I won’t make much of the plural possessive pronoun that refers (properly) to a plural noun doing the possessing but disconcertingly refers to a single object possessed, giving the impression (okay, giving. For an illuminating discussion of that celebrated theological debate; here. For a relevant cartoon.). Or at leas...
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“He was calm, cool, and collective.” | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. December 21, 2011. 8220;He was calm, cool, and collective.”. Ah, a union man, ready to bargain. Or a one-person flock. Or a communist farm. Or a person with multiple personalities! Or perhaps it’s his habit of mind: advocating control of resources or operations by a body representing the people as a whole. At any rate, he’s calm and cool, probably very reasonable in any of those roles, and I like him! All right, what my student meant was that he was calm, cool, and collect. Student...
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RAB | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. Teacher of English writing and literature (college-level); academic-freedom activist; editor and copy editor; theater director, costumer, actress, playwright. October 25, 2015. 8220;On the Greek island of Lesbos”. In my classes, attraction to a piece of writing pretty much means you’ll have to write about it; hence today’s horror. Through the murky sentences I think you will still feel the affection:. On an island; who wrote them remains unspoken)! Made them into classic poems.
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Forgive me for waxing political, but I had to share this! | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. August 6, 2015. Forgive me for waxing political, but I had to share this! A brilliant collection of Shakespearean quotations for tonight’s debates! 8220;Hell is empty; all the devils are here.” Posted by the Folger Shakespeare Library, from Timothy McSweeney’s blog, a post by Emily Uecker. Teacher of English writing and literature (college-level); academic-freedom activist; editor and copy editor; theater director, costumer, actress, playwright. View all posts by RAB. 8220;A politi...
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tippy teaches: June 2012
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Reforming education one period at a time. Monday, June 4, 2012. This year, Kristin Veenema. And I continued to pilot the use of online tools to increase student collaboration. In September, we set ourselves the specific goal of tracking the improvement in collaborative skills. We tracked individual students and looked for increased use of collaborative language and the corresponding increase in depth and creativity of ideas. So the student can be asked to go back and reflect on his improvement, and the t...
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In Print | You Knew What I Meant
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You Knew What I Meant. This page is dedicated to the same kinds of lapses and horrors my students fall intobut here, the examples appeared in print, were written by someone paid to write, and either NOT copy-edited, or copy-edited by someone not doing his or her job. Since nothing in my blog is meant to hold any individual up to ridicule, I will not post the source citations (you’ll have to trust me); if you want to track them down, Google will probably find them for you. One response to “ In Print.
