[lit-ideas] Re: A Rant You Can Embellish
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:25:36 -0230
I'm right behind Julie on all counts here, even if others couldn't care less.
Walter O.
P.S. I'll add: covering letters for fulltime, tenure-track positions containing
typos, grammatical errors, invalid inferences and/or stylistic awkwardnish.
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> That's almost enough to put one off both artichokes and liquor.
>
> I'll add
>
> misusing, abusing, mispelling, mispronouncing, and generally interchanging
> allusion/illusion
> affect/effect
> wreak/reek/wreck
>
> confusing imply & infer
>
> "I *could* care less"
>
> English teachers who distribute printed material containing typos and
> grammatical & punctuation errors to their students.
>
> Gravy, turkey, green bean, etc. flavored soda.
>
> Infomercials
>
> On 5/20/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > New additions from other sources:
> >
> >
> > Artichoke liqueur
> >
> > Alphabetical order
> >
> > Branded clothing
> >
> > Cliché masked as clarity
> >
> > Chaos paraded as spontaneity
> >
> > Discussions of how unbelievably ignorant Americans are
> >
> > Doomsday diatribes
> >
> > Ellipses pawned as profundity
> >
> > Frequent alliteration and allusion
> >
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