Each semester, while I was teaching, I found I had to spend some time within the first few classes on the problem of Engfish. The first assignments always came back in a sort of half-language carefully constructed to reveal nothing, commit to nothing, and generally avoid saying anything dangerous or objectionable.
Reading Maureen Dowd’s piece in [...]
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The Engfish Lesson: for Ms. Palin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election, engfish, palin, politics, teaching on October 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »