You eeeeediots!

[janetlin]

Someone in my Linguistics class today asked, "What's a preposition?"

I shit you not.

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[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Granted, it is Intro. to Linguistics, but it's an upper-division class, which are generally for juniors and seniors (third-year of college and higher).

It totally should have a prerequisite of Advanced English Grammar (actually, even just a survey course sounds like it would help most of the students in with me), and/or Linguistics of the English Language. It's a pretty broad and abstract subject to try teaching to people who have never taken anything like it.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

You should see some of the folk I end up with in my respeckerbal job.

English Down and Dirty

*twitch, twitch*

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

I don't mind people who aren't as fanatical about their language as I am, as long as they don't hamper my education in the process...