tonguetied
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« Reply #360 on: November 11, 2009, 01:39:59 PM » |
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"Just as the Power Rangers did not have their incredible fighting powers until they put on their suits, so do we not have the power to broadcast our identities until we put on the clothes that inspire and create our performances."
Shoot. Me. Now.
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« Reply #361 on: November 11, 2009, 08:31:25 PM » |
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"Just as the Power Rangers did not have their incredible fighting powers until they put on their suits, so do we not have the power to broadcast our identities until we put on the clothes that inspire and create our performances."
Shoot. Me. Now.
It's a Homeric simile for the 21st century! Get excited! Here's mine: "We are now long past the French revolution, and women have gained many of the rights that literature prevented them from enjoying." D*mn that literature, oppressing women and stuff, preventing them from using their determination to enjoy their rights... |
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E: (staring at his phone) "Well? Shall we go?" A: (also staring at his phone) "Yes, let's go." Only their thumbs move. |
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #362 on: November 12, 2009, 01:17:01 AM » |
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"We are now long past the French revolution, and women have gained many of the rights that literature prevented them from enjoying."
D*mn that literature, oppressing women and stuff, preventing them from using their determination to enjoy their rights...
Obviously, Melville was valiantly trying to fight for their rights, by having the noble Ahab track down and do battle with that obvious symbol of male literary oppression, Moby-Dick. Perhaps by having Ahab die in the end, he was showing us that they could not prevail, at least not without the ultimate sacrifice from the most virtuous of them? |
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"A pun is primâ facie an insult to the person you are talking with. It implies utter indifference to or sublime contempt for his remarks, no matter how serious." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Hedgie loves to read. |
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« Reply #363 on: November 12, 2009, 02:08:20 PM » |
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"Smiles are good, but not when they're racist."
No explanation offered, just tossed into the middle of an essay.
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« Reply #364 on: November 12, 2009, 05:33:02 PM » |
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Amazing what this thread does for my enthusiasm for grading...for the first time in a while I have actually looked forward to finding horrific lines in my students' work.
Just started grading exams and found this one:
"When a seismic hazard is trying to be found, it is usually in a more heavily populated area where considerations in different earthquakes needs to be taken into account when constructing new buildings."
Those poor seismic hazards, desperately trying to be found. It almost makes you cry. Never mind the "considerations in different earthquakes".
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drmooks
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« Reply #365 on: November 12, 2009, 06:25:56 PM » |
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Amazing what this thread does for my enthusiasm for grading...for the first time in a while I have actually looked forward to finding horrific lines in my students' work.
Just started grading exams and found this one:
"When a seismic hazard is trying to be found, it is usually in a more heavily populated area where considerations in different earthquakes needs to be taken into account when constructing new buildings."
Those poor seismic hazards, desperately trying to be found. It almost makes you cry. Never mind the "considerations in different earthquakes".
Seismic hazards suffer from middle-child syndrome? |
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #366 on: November 12, 2009, 09:34:26 PM » |
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For some reason, I can't get the movie Tremors out of my mind now.
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"A pun is primâ facie an insult to the person you are talking with. It implies utter indifference to or sublime contempt for his remarks, no matter how serious." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Hedgie loves to read. |
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« Reply #367 on: November 13, 2009, 09:02:06 AM » |
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"Smiles are good, but not when they're racist."
No explanation offered, just tossed into the middle of an essay.
Did the student mean "similes," by chance? I'm having a hard time imagining a racist smile. |
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short4bob
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« Reply #368 on: November 13, 2009, 11:40:55 AM » |
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"She lived amazingly with a few injuries to the head, jaw, and clavicle but will make a full recovery."
Do you have to get injured to live amazingly?
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short4bob
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« Reply #369 on: November 13, 2009, 12:17:34 PM » |
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Here's one for CTG:
"Ever since people have been keeping track of tourism patterns, they have been on the rise."
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« Reply #370 on: November 13, 2009, 06:06:41 PM » |
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The question was about economic motives for migrating to New World colonies:
"For white men there was the advantage of being able to get rich. Africans had only the opportunity to be slaves but sometimes they got rich anyway and lived good lives in spite of being slaves."
I don't know where on earth that startling nugget of information came from---not the textbook, not the lectures.
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« Reply #371 on: November 13, 2009, 06:09:51 PM » |
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My favorite from my current stack:
"Christine de Pizan reassured that she would remain a woman even while transforming herself into a man."
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« Reply #372 on: November 13, 2009, 06:17:57 PM » |
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My favorite from my current stack:
"Christine de Pizan reassured that she would remain a woman even while transforming herself into a man."
Sorry, Nameless Student. I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Norah Vincent. |
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fosca
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« Reply #373 on: November 13, 2009, 07:33:37 PM » |
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From an online assignment about persuasion and commercials--sorry, I mean comericals:
"Comericals that make me stear away from there product would be revlon products. There products can't match cover girls. The other one would be a WII I dont see how anyone could play a gave with a hand held remote."
The whole post is written like that, including a lot of references to her husben. Ye gods, the Park Service is looking better and better.
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They equate learning with "understanding magically everything that [the professor] teaches us because it's all so easy" not "expanding their knowledge and ability to apply that knowledge to new situations and problems." |
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« Reply #374 on: November 14, 2009, 12:48:28 PM » |
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From an online assignment about persuasion and commercials--sorry, I mean comericals:
"Comericals that make me stear away from there product would be revlon products. There products can't match cover girls. The other one would be a WII I dont see how anyone could play a gave with a hand held remote."
The whole post is written like that, including a lot of references to her husben. Ye gods, the Park Service is looking better and better.
For you to flee into, or towards which to toss this student? |
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