Some days I’m more mature than others about my pet peeves. This was a student’s paper where the student committed one of my cardinal writing sins – substituting the lowercase u for you. I try to explain that including this advertises to the world, “I didn’t bother to read my own paper!” Alas, sometimes I have to send the message in a different way.
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March 10, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Fuuny, luv it;)
March 10, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Yes, sometimes a stick figure gets our point across. I spent much time drawing little things in the margin. Made me feel better.