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My "old man" thing that drives me up the wall with students

Posted by Reagen Apr 7 '22, 10:23

You've grown up with spell check embedded in everything! There's no excuse for "teh"s and "nad"s!

And then there's the people who type the whole damn message in the subject line. It's not a text! Plus stop adding "lol" as a fucking nervous tick to everything.

Responses:

Uh, you realize typing the whole damn message in the subject line is our (slackertalk) *thing* right. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 7, 10:44 1
- Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 7, 11:18
I was moderating a student chat board when I was in grad school and a student was like - amanda Apr 7, 10:35 6
- It's the "Smurf" of punctuation! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 7, 11:47 1
  - ROTFLMAO - zork Apr 7, 11:57
- you'd better study lol otherwise you'll fail lol -- nm - Roger More Apr 7, 10:47
- I expect we sound like "Dearest Martha, I hope this letter finds you in good tidings..." to them. -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 10:41 1
  - By text, most def -- nm - Beryllium Apr 7, 11:35
- lol now generally means “take pity on my terrible situation.” -- nm - Qale Apr 7, 10:38
"I seen", "how come", and lack of Oxford commas drive me up the wall -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:34 24
- Secret Door#3, rewrite your awkward sentence! -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 10:39 7
  - I loathe that there are apps out there to correct this. - Mel Profit Apr 7, 12:19
  - There are lots of instances of their use in a non-awkward sentence. -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:44 4
    - 99% of the "see!" examples are contrived and require a complete ignorance of context. -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 10:47 3
      - Just like your example against it below. -- nm - zork Apr 7, 11:02 2
        
        Which is why rewriting for clarity is the correct answer. -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 11:03 1
        
        But my jar of white out is almost empty and it's getting really hard to read the computer screen -- nm - Baruno Apr 7, 11:07
  - I'm feeling targeted, harassed, and defiant. -- nm - Baruno Apr 7, 10:44
- Lack of Oxford commas is actually a style thing here, took some getting used to. -- nm - znufrii Apr 7, 10:35 15
  - Man buns were a style, too. That doesn't make it OK. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 7, 10:36 14
    - Exactly. Adding it can never hurt your communication but leaving it out can. -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:41 13
      - Incorrect! -- (link) - Reagen Apr 7, 10:45 12
        
        *points to the millions of positive examples next to the baby in the bath water* -- nm - zork Apr 7, 10:59 8
        
        You're the one who said never. - Reagen Apr 7, 11:01 7
        
        ~well…hardly ever!~ -- nm - znufrii Apr 7, 11:06
        
        They prefer the term ecdysiasts. -- nm - Baruno Apr 7, 11:03
        
        Statistically never - zork Apr 7, 11:03 4
        
        Can you find a singular example of not being able to find a singular example of something? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 7, 11:09 3
        
        Are you trying to short circuit the Borg? -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 11:12 1
        
        Picard spoilers - Beryllium Apr 7, 11:17
        
        Give me a moment! -- nm - zork Apr 7, 11:09
        
        Is the comma a sandwich? -- nm - Baruno Apr 7, 10:54 2
        
        Or….is it CAKE?! -- nm - znufrii Apr 7, 10:54 1
        
        Please hold while I fetch my knife. -- nm* - Beryllium Apr 7, 11:07
My "old man" grumble: "And then there is the people..."? "People" is plural and requires "there are". -- nm - TWuG Apr 7, 10:30 13
- A group of people is singular. -- nm - con_carne Apr 7, 12:18
- We've got enough homonyms for "there" without throwing "there're" into the mix. -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 10:38 8
  - You're not wrong, but it still grates on my ear. -- nm - TWuG Apr 7, 12:25
  - Also I'd say it's basically established as an informal contraction form for the plural now - Reagen Apr 7, 11:12 6
    - You willn't convince me. This is English, not something logical like German. -- nm* - zork Apr 7, 11:13 5
      - The beauty of English (and really any language) is that if you convince enough people to follow your rule, it's the right one! -- nm - Reagen Apr 7, 11:16 4
        
        Except French. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 7, 11:23 2
        
        Even that only does so much. - Reagen Apr 7, 11:26 1
        
        Plus Joual and l'Acadien -- nm - zork Apr 7, 11:44
        
        Beauty? *Marge grumble* - zork Apr 7, 11:19
- (We is small, we contain solitude.) -- nm - Baruno Apr 7, 10:34
- "The GenX-ers are fighting" "let them fight lol" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 7, 10:31 1
  - Lol! -- nm - TWuG Apr 7, 10:32
"I can assure you that you did *not* actually laugh out loud" -- nm - Raygun Apr 7, 10:27 1
- You should make a rule ... nmbrule - zork Apr 7, 10:37
so true, lol -- nm - decline Apr 7, 10:23 2
- *throat punches you* - Reagen Apr 7, 10:25 1
  - wol - Beryllium Apr 7, 10:30

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