Wednesday, June 11, 2014

We Can Only Hope The Prom Theme Was Meant Ironically


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  1. Especially the address.

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  2. If you read stuff written by teachers - not students, the people who are supposed to be teaching them - this sort of thing is not surprising at all. Why care about usage if you don't care about communicating in general?

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  3. Maybe the Prom Theme is, indeed, indicated by the word 'Are' - the Theme is "Ontology of a Multiverse."

    jj

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  4. It's like an unresolved chord. I want to insert punctuation, however inappropriate it may be: "This is/are story."

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  5. Gentlemen, you've got it all wrong.

    Clearly, it's a pirate-themed prom, the 'e' in 'Arr' is just a simple typo.

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  6. If I wrote this into a news story, my headline would be "This is A(real) Story"

    But what I really suspect is the case is that we are taking high school to mean the wrong thing: it's where you learn how to get high, not where you learn anything else... (what could be more important?) ;-)

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