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 »
Whatever floats your discourse.
Posted in rant, tagged english, grammar, sentences, teaching on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I started teaching English, friends started apologizing for their grammar. Some got all apologetic about their emails, while others started correcting their grammar in-sentence as if they had some mental Word grammar-check turned on, and they couldn’t get it to quit putting green squiggly lines under half their sentences. [You'll notice that my use [...]
