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« on: November 02, 2007, 10:12:34 AM » |
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I had to laugh when a student used the adjective "upserd" in a paper.
Any more curiously appropriate misspellings? I'm looking for laughter, not complaints about idiotic students.
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2007, 10:15:59 AM » |
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Pregist.
Used over and over again in a paper about how one's life would be different if they were born of the other sex. This particular paper devolved into a rambling rant about how much men screwed women over because they were "biast and pregist". It took me a few reads to figure out that the author meant prejudiced.
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2007, 11:35:45 AM » |
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Rediculous.
It's always the whining students who use this, in whining contexts. It's just funny to find that they misspelled ridiculous in their belligerent message.
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2007, 11:47:29 AM » |
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inbarased embarrassed
conplane complain
benelty penalty
presude persuade
make en's meat make ends meet
parins parents
soupier superior
uncalmin uncommon
Some students do not feel inbarased that they do not have soupier skills to spell uncalmin words, but they conplane to me and try to presude me that the grade benelty was too severe because they had to work all week to help their parins make en's meat.
Oh, this is maybe one percent of a list I have kept over the years.
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I'm a teacher, Jim, not a customer service representative.
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2007, 11:51:23 AM » |
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What is troubling about these phonetic misrepresentations is that they indicate that the student is not hearing the pronunciation correctly. We can blame that on Ipods, I think.
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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2007, 11:57:08 AM » |
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Not my student, but I've never forgotten a colleague's story...
Student wrote a paper on Salman Rushdie. Student used spell-check and did not proofread afterward. Student's paper was all about Salmon Residue.
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2007, 12:00:39 PM » |
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I had not one, but two students turn in papers this semester discussing their locust of control.
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2007, 12:03:20 PM » |
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No one has mentioned the global hedgehog yet?!? ;)
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2007, 12:07:28 PM » |
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I posted these elsewhere, but the two most common . . .
writting (or writter)
grammer
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« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2007, 12:12:01 PM » |
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No one has mentioned the global hedgehog yet?!? ;)
Yes, that was my student. America, the global hedgehog. That was the only paper I laughed so hard over that it brought tears to my eyes. |
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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2007, 12:42:17 PM » |
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Locust of control (it's locus of control)
Not spelling, but still irksome:
Incorrect capitalization (e.g., There were 200 Participants in this study...)
Incorrect use of apostrophe's (e.g., There were 200 participant's in this study...)
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2007, 12:46:17 PM » |
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I've posted on this before, but the one that can still make me laugh to the point of tears is my Am. history student who railed against the injustice of persecution, such as that suffered by the Morons.
(You remember the Morons...those folk who followed Brigham Young westward to Salt Lake City.....?)
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2007, 12:51:05 PM » |
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I've posted on this before, but the one that can still make me laugh to the point of tears is my Am. history student who railed against the injustice of persecution, such as that suffered by the Morons.
(You remember the Morons...those folk who followed Brigham Young westward to Salt Lake City.....?)
That may have been intentional. *snort* |
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« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2007, 12:58:18 PM » |
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I've posted on this before, but the one that can still make me laugh to the point of tears is my Am. history student who railed against the injustice of persecution, such as that suffered by the Morons.
(You remember the Morons...those folk who followed Brigham Young westward to Salt Lake City.....?)
That may have been intentional. *snort* I wondered about that too. |
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2007, 01:11:06 PM » |
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One that I have repeatedly seen in is 'thrown' instead of 'throne'.
But I think my favorite this past semester was a student's reference to "an adenoidal issue" when they meant anecdotal (this was a history paper).
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