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I'm correcting an onslaught of essays from the 3rd year students because it's University entrance exam season.
Kids, I hope this excerpt from one young woman's essay about global warming can convey the importance of forming your English letters properly: there is a big difference between what she meant to write, "a few scientists and researchers," and what she actually wrote, "Jew Scientists and Researchers." Had she not written "of" in the previous sentence so that I recognized the malformedness of her "f"s, I'd have wondered where her dislike for The Chosen People came from...Though I can't say it's the first time I've heard someone refer to anti-global warming researchers as "Jews."
On another essay, I actually had to cross out a sentence and write, "You're so retarded." Never in a million years did I think I'd be doing that, especially after being an RA. But I couldn't help it, it was an essay about name-calling, and the author wrote a quote about what he used to call his friends and how inappropriate it was. He had something like, "you is so impairment!" What could I do other than make the correction and let out a little lulz.
Some of these kids are pretty good at telling crazy stories to begin with, even without the grammar blunders. For example, the story from the kid who claimed to learn that stealing was wrong when he tried stealing a game from his brother while his brother was in the bathroom, but in the process fell down and broke his arm.
I love exam season :)
Kids, I hope this excerpt from one young woman's essay about global warming can convey the importance of forming your English letters properly: there is a big difference between what she meant to write, "a few scientists and researchers," and what she actually wrote, "Jew Scientists and Researchers." Had she not written "of" in the previous sentence so that I recognized the malformedness of her "f"s, I'd have wondered where her dislike for The Chosen People came from...Though I can't say it's the first time I've heard someone refer to anti-global warming researchers as "Jews."
On another essay, I actually had to cross out a sentence and write, "You're so retarded." Never in a million years did I think I'd be doing that, especially after being an RA. But I couldn't help it, it was an essay about name-calling, and the author wrote a quote about what he used to call his friends and how inappropriate it was. He had something like, "you is so impairment!" What could I do other than make the correction and let out a little lulz.
Some of these kids are pretty good at telling crazy stories to begin with, even without the grammar blunders. For example, the story from the kid who claimed to learn that stealing was wrong when he tried stealing a game from his brother while his brother was in the bathroom, but in the process fell down and broke his arm.
I love exam season :)