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radiotrash ([info]radiotrash) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-05-13 01:10:00


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Battle of the Best English Students!
Over in [info]were_not_hungry [info]run__ho makes a post featuring an editoral that will run in her school newspaper.

[info]aestheticwishes starts the ball rolling by pointing out something that could be fixed in the article, [info]run__ho is not amused.

Then [info]plainoljane also decides to give [info]run__ho some grammar and writing tips.

[info]run__ho declines. [info]plainoljane fights back!



run__ho: "Mmm, I disagree. I'm a good writer, I'll stick to what I think is right unless the Editor in Chief suggests different."

plainoljane: "I'm an Honours English student at one of the best universities in Canada, and you're rejecting my writing tips. Foolish of you, being that you're a high school student."

run__ho: "You're not that great a writer. Get off your high horse and come back when you have had something published (not in a high school paper)."

plainoljane: "I am a great writer, and you're the one on the high horse."

----

aestheticwishes: "Quit kidding yourself. You're not a good writer and everything plainoljane said was right.

run__ho: "Yes. I am a good writer. I wouldn't have three teachers writing me letters of recommendation to universities due to my articles if I wasn't."

plainoljane: "You probably blew them."



[info]sherimei stops by on page two to tell us that "No one cares, it is fucking Canada. Maybe if it was Havard, Yale, something that we all know about, but no one knows anything about Canadian Universities." and "..puncuation is now a style and choice of writing according to most teachers/professors." (*sniff* Someone should have told that to my English teachers.)



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sharonapple
2006-05-13 08:38 am UTC (link)
Sherimei seems to have attended the Chancery Stone School of Writing, where punctuation is optional!

Also, wow, I never knew that my fellow English students had egos this big. *cries*

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[info]wankismyfandom
2006-05-13 09:01 am UTC (link)
Wow, it's a whole buffet of loathsomeness in that post.

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hereforthewank
2006-05-13 09:07 am UTC (link)
Er, isn't that Lindsay Lohan in her icon? She thinks of LL as emblematic of society's dangerous obsession with weight... then sticks her in her icon? I, for one, am confused.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-05-13 11:03 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-05-13 11:03 am UTC
(no subject) - hereforthewank, 2006-05-13 11:30 am UTC
(no subject) - soula, 2006-05-13 08:06 pm UTC

[info]avari
2006-05-13 09:12 am UTC (link)
Then [info]plainoljane also decides to give [info]run__ho some grammer and writing tips.

Be fair, [info]plainoljane does know how to spell "grammar". ;)

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(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2006-05-13 09:02 pm UTC

[info]sheep
2006-05-13 09:28 am UTC (link)
I would think she was a troll for correcting Briticisms, except that I have had people do that to me before, usually while trying to make themselves sound smart in a debate.

It tends to take me a while before I can stop laughing enough to post a reply... it's not often that I get to put the smack down on someone regarding spellings and grammar, so I relish the moment while it lasts. Hee!

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-05-13 06:36 pm UTC

[info]puipui
2006-05-13 10:10 am UTC (link)
"You probably blew them."

I haven't even been over there yet, and I think I'm in love.

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[info]renata_hpjc
2006-05-13 10:12 am UTC (link)
Gramatically, this should read "In my experience of this same situation during my second-block class, a group of women and myself were putting off working on our group project. In that short time, I learned every girl, save one, had, at one point in time, intentionally starved herself."

I love it when the cure is worse than the disease.

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(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2006-05-13 03:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2006-05-14 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-05-15 01:57 am UTC

[info]slavekitty
2006-05-13 11:19 am UTC (link)
That went from essay critique to a tiny dick-waving contest in about one post flat.

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dracothelizard
2006-05-13 12:27 pm UTC (link)
So, the OP wants feedback, but ONLY feedback that doesn't actually criticise her post? She should've done a PS with 'no flames plz' then.

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[info]mathilde
2006-05-13 01:05 pm UTC (link)
Wow, run__ho's skin is so thin I'm surprised her organs haven't fallen out. Something tells me a writing career is perhaps not the best choice for this one.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2006-05-13 02:12 pm UTC (link)
"...puncuation is now a style and choice of writing according to most teachers/professors." (*sniff* Someone should have told that to my English teachers.)

They've heard it. And mocked it.

(Because we all have.)

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(no subject) - [info]issendai, 2006-05-13 04:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jat_sapphire, 2006-05-13 09:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]issendai, 2006-05-14 12:17 am UTC

[info]emiweebee
2006-05-13 03:28 pm UTC (link)
Wow.

Anyway, as an apology on behalf of Americans, I've heard nothing but good things about various Canadian universities, so rock on Canada.

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(Anonymous)
2006-05-13 03:29 pm UTC (link)
Hate to be a party pooper but isn't run--ho underaged. She says she is in highschool and soebody entioned she was sixteen.

~Spacebabie

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(no subject) - [info]amxjm, 2006-05-13 03:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wanktastic, 2006-05-13 05:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2006-05-13 10:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2006-05-13 03:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2006-05-13 09:09 pm UTC

[info]gal_montag
2006-05-13 03:35 pm UTC (link)
I can't believe her editor didn't make her fix some of that, however, slapping people with your credentials peen makes you a loser

puncuation is now a style and choice of writing according to most teachers/professors

Actually, no, it isn't, especially not when you write for a newspaper, and I'd love to know what teacher told her some bullshit like that.

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(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2006-05-14 12:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2006-05-14 01:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2006-05-14 01:45 am UTC
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[info]nevadafighter
2006-05-13 04:02 pm UTC (link)
plainoljane makes some good points--unfortunately, those points are lost in the "Honors Studnet" dick-waving going on. Come on, it IS possible to help someone out without being a pretentious jerkoff about it.

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(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2006-05-13 04:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wanktastic, 2006-05-13 05:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-13 05:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2006-05-13 11:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - verthandi, 2006-05-13 07:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2006-05-13 11:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2006-05-15 02:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gobsmacked, 2006-05-13 09:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-05-13 09:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2006-05-14 01:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gobsmacked, 2006-05-17 07:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-05-13 04:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]gobsmacked, 2006-05-13 09:29 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2006-05-13 11:31 pm UTC

[info]luckdragonfujur
2006-05-13 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Look! I back up my individuality, my non-conformity and my uniqueness by using not one <*small*> tag, but two!

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(no subject) - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-05-14 02:57 am UTC

vomitymcpuke
2006-05-13 05:10 pm UTC (link)
OK, so the OP is whiney and a big baby, but plainoljane is a gigantic bitch. The idea that if run__ho was smart she'd be out of high school already is ridiculous. And since she references a friend who graduated at 14, I'm assuming that she, herself, did not graduate early.

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[info]sorchar
2006-05-13 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I wanna know in what world anorexia affects all classes. I'm pretty sure if you offer a homeless girl a sandwich, she'll, you know, eat it.

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(no subject) - [info]herongale, 2006-05-13 07:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]brown_betty, 2006-05-14 12:18 am UTC

[info]herongale
2006-05-13 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Jesus fucking Christ. I want to wring [info]plainoljane's neck. WTF is she going after a high school student for?!

*utterly baffled*

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(no subject) - [info]herongale, 2006-05-13 07:16 pm UTC

[info]marguerite
2006-05-13 07:28 pm UTC (link)
You can graduate at any rate you want. I have a friend who was in university at 14.

So that's no excuse.


Obviously, the great majority of us are slackers.

Oh well, at least the great majority of us aren't anorexic/bulemic.

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(no subject) - [info]ladyvorkosigan, 2006-05-13 07:48 pm UTC

[info]judyhazeleyes
2006-05-13 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Dear everyone involved in wank:

Good grammar does not necessarily preclude complete dumbassery, and being a resonably coherent dumbass is nothing of which to be proud.

- g

PS: I fucked your mom.

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[info]prettyveela
2006-05-13 08:15 pm UTC (link)
Over, in were_not_hungry

I can't get past this. XD

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[info]moonjaguar
2006-05-13 09:22 pm UTC (link)
run_ho needs to feed her text. It's so starved, shrunken and parched-looking that planaria need magnifiying glasses to read it.

/grumpy bifocals-wearing person control-plusing FF to its limits

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(no subject) - [info]gobsmacked, 2006-05-13 09:30 pm UTC

[info]gobsmacked
2006-05-13 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Now I wish I had the brilliant "Grammar Time" icon...

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[info]rekall
2006-05-13 11:12 pm UTC (link)
No one cares, it is fucking Canada. Maybe if it was Havard, Yale, something that we all know about, but no one knows anything about Canadian Universities.

Dang. I guess I just wasted those 4 years of my life then.

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