[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:20:38 -0700
on 5/6/04 12:34 PM, Judith Evans at judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'd say she shows awareness of a problem. "A hero is only a hero if he has
> some fear" is less acceptable to me than an attempt, albeit flawed, to cope
> with the problem. "They" third person singular is perfectly acceptable, and
> not only of late.
What?
The horror, the horror. I hear fingernails grating on a blackboard, drones
out of tune, a supermarket cart's wheel stuck and rubbing. This is my
native tongue we're talking about. He/she agreeing with "they"?
Aaaaaaaargh.
But give the teacher extra credit for awareness.
>
> I add that "effect" for "affect" is though certainly wrong too often used in
> the media for us to trample on it too heavily.
>
The world is heavy upon us. A cousin's daughter recently said that she was
failing one of her high school classes. What grade is she getting? A "C."
C means failure in her high school. So now we're all officially above
average, or failures. No wonder they're running short of Kleenex.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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