You eeeeediots!

[janetlin]

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

I shit you not.

Comments

[allova.livejournal.com]

*winces* Oh dear. Would dirty linguistics jokes cheer you up at this point? Or would they just make things worse?

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

So this is a first year linguistics course, yes? Some people were shorted in high school and are trying to catch up. A lot of them turn up in first year courses.

I can understand your frustration.

I still prefer people asking questions to reduce their ignorance though.

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

I've found that people who learned English as a second language tend to know a good bit more grammar than people who grew up with it. One of those funny things.