pet peeves
1. The inability of some people to properly use "their", "there" and "they're".
2. The inability of some people to properly use "your" and "you're".
3. The inability of some people to distinguish among other homophones (like "hear" and "here").
4. The misuse of the word "prove". Science doesn't prove a whole heck of a lot. But that's ok. Science isn't a court of law. But scientists, with the use of experiments and statistics, have very rigorous ways to support hypotheses. Although things such as global warming are not "provable" by science, the data can be overwhelmingly convincing. Moreover, one piece of data does not force me to accept an argument or dismiss one. Show me a Ph.D. and I'll show you someone retarded.* Average their IQs and it'll be the same as yours. Don't show me someone so mentally challenged and expect me to conclude we're all retarded.
5. High society and high class are poor substitutes for "those with high income". High society is an empty term. High class implies social stratifications. There are many rich "lower class" people. There are many poor people with "high class" tastes (blogger among them). The term "middle class" is generally acceptable as a scholarly term, but please, let's not be too strict classifying ourselves in social class. Let's just keep it all on the 1040 form, meaning people are "rich" or "wealthy" or "poor" or somewhere in between. Jeff Foxworthy is wealthy but the dude ain't high class or high society.
To my students: you should lose at least 5% on any assignment for each time you commit such an error.
*The term "retarded" is often used in a derogatory sense. I am not using it this way. No offense to anyone with mentally challenged love ones. I could use the phrase "mentally handicapped" or "mentally challenged", but those are merely definitions of "retarded".
2. The inability of some people to properly use "your" and "you're".
3. The inability of some people to distinguish among other homophones (like "hear" and "here").
4. The misuse of the word "prove". Science doesn't prove a whole heck of a lot. But that's ok. Science isn't a court of law. But scientists, with the use of experiments and statistics, have very rigorous ways to support hypotheses. Although things such as global warming are not "provable" by science, the data can be overwhelmingly convincing. Moreover, one piece of data does not force me to accept an argument or dismiss one. Show me a Ph.D. and I'll show you someone retarded.* Average their IQs and it'll be the same as yours. Don't show me someone so mentally challenged and expect me to conclude we're all retarded.
5. High society and high class are poor substitutes for "those with high income". High society is an empty term. High class implies social stratifications. There are many rich "lower class" people. There are many poor people with "high class" tastes (blogger among them). The term "middle class" is generally acceptable as a scholarly term, but please, let's not be too strict classifying ourselves in social class. Let's just keep it all on the 1040 form, meaning people are "rich" or "wealthy" or "poor" or somewhere in between. Jeff Foxworthy is wealthy but the dude ain't high class or high society.
To my students: you should lose at least 5% on any assignment for each time you commit such an error.
*The term "retarded" is often used in a derogatory sense. I am not using it this way. No offense to anyone with mentally challenged love ones. I could use the phrase "mentally handicapped" or "mentally challenged", but those are merely definitions of "retarded".
posted by Atomic Kid at 4:20 PM
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