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« Reply #900 on: January 25, 2012, 02:50:07 PM » |
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"Children are becoming more obits every day."
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« Reply #901 on: January 25, 2012, 04:14:41 PM » |
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Obese? That's my guess.
Yep. Obese it is. "Children are becoming more obits every day."
Maybe they'll save the newspaper industry from extinction. Wouldn't that be nice? |
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« Reply #902 on: February 04, 2012, 12:40:23 AM » |
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"thats decusting!"
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« Reply #904 on: February 15, 2012, 04:04:03 PM » |
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adaquit, too, if I had too many of these from students.
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« Reply #905 on: February 15, 2012, 05:32:38 PM » |
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"I am defiantly behind where I want to be in this [project]."
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To me, forums are more of a relaxing period in which the poster can allow himself or himself to be lost in a sea of wonder.
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« Reply #906 on: February 15, 2012, 05:45:50 PM » |
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"I am defiantly behind where I want to be in this [project]."
As it turns out, I'm defiantly behind where I should be in my grading. |
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« Reply #907 on: February 15, 2012, 05:57:03 PM » |
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"I was raised in a very tight nit family."
Reading too much Kafka I guess.
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« Reply #908 on: February 15, 2012, 10:39:43 PM » |
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"I was raised in a very tight nit family."
Reading too much Kafka I guess.
Lice? |
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« Reply #909 on: February 24, 2012, 03:09:15 PM » |
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Just graded the short answer sections of an exam in a 200-level course. Some winners in the "upserd student misspellings" category:
folktell
flocktale
vergian
centerband
conterband
tourted
comfronting (for comforting)
joyess
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heroin, herion (for heron)
Finally, not a misspelling, but a head-scratcher: "She committed suicide to herself."
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« Reply #910 on: February 24, 2012, 03:57:34 PM » |
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I get them all, but "joyess"--what?
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« Reply #911 on: February 24, 2012, 04:05:36 PM » |
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I get them all, but "joyess"--what?
It seems the student meant "joyous." |
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« Reply #912 on: February 24, 2012, 05:40:46 PM » |
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I get them all, but "joyess"--what?
It seems the student meant "joyous." duh, of course! I was stuck on "joyness", which made no sense. |
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« Reply #913 on: February 26, 2012, 10:32:10 PM » |
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Just graded the short answer sections of an exam in a 200-level course. Some winners in the "upserd student misspellings" category:
folktell
flocktale
vergian
centerband
conterband
tourted
comfronting (for comforting)
joyess
disspare
heroin, herion (for heron)
Finally, not a misspelling, but a head-scratcher: "She committed suicide to herself."
Essay portion of the same exam has produced these: injustidly whereass pias kepted accure hotle concedered genderole crule consicuences tradigty . . . and infatuous. |
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« Reply #914 on: February 27, 2012, 08:01:05 AM » |
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I got most of them but is pias meant to be bias or peace? Hotle defeats me, and infatuous should be a word, but I wonder what the student meant, (if the student had any intention).
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