Wednesday, April 05, 2006
A Grading Gem
While reading a student essay I encountered the following phonetic rendering of a common aphorism: "despite times call for despite measures." I suspect it has to do with the local accent making desperate sound somewhat similar. Not quite as bad as the innumerable comments in the past few years about the "doggy dog world" in which we live...
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"doggy dog world!"
This made me laugh! :-D
Does that mean you're no longer cranky, Yankee? ;-)
but it is a doggy dog world!
Not outside of Westminster! Hee hee -- so you have entered blogosphere at last? When will you be giving us the inside story on a certain granola-chomping, Earthshoe-wearing campus? ;-) Not that I don't chomp granola myself, and let the record show that I did once own a pair of Earthshoes...
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