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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Everything currently wrong with my term paper.
Passive voice. This kills me. For years my teachers have harangued me for use of passive voice and I haven't got the faintest idea of what they're talking about. They mark me off for it without properly explaining what it is. Apparently one small error of MLA format (a double space in one place that should be single) can get 1/4 of the Grammar grade cut. Use of acedemic language. The expletive was part of a quote, and the quote was to show how stories are perceived differently based on words chosen to tell them. Citations. I could easily find some person somewhere that's said everything I've said before and cite them to augment my sources, but if I add more citing then it ceases to be my paper and becomes a jigsaw puzzle of other people's words taken from context and made to seem like they're all talking about the same thing. Theses. Yes... my thesis has an issue: when the professor said that "the thesis on a research paper is found at the conclusion of the introduction," I totally missed out on the "of the introduction" part of the statement. My paper's official conclusion is currently playing host to my thesis and my professor thinks it's non-existent because it's not on one of the first two pages of my paper. My professor's issue with my friend's paper can also go to Mordor. I can assign this issue because it's because of me that she's got the issue, and I don't find it to be an issue at all. In her term paper, she discusses linguistic taboos. She uses profanity, but she uses it acedemically in terms of why these expletives are considered taboo. Our professor wants her to bleep out the words, or at least most of the words. It's not like she's randomly swearing for the heck of it, she uses curse words in terms of "And in England, 'X' means something entirely different than it does in the States." How lame is that? I want to go argue my friend's case to the professor to convince her to let the words stay in all of their naughty splendor. Besides... it's not like we can't use words like "transubstantiation" and "cannibalism" and "bubble" and "acetone" and "rhetoric". Words are words. Anybody who has an issue with a certain word can go become a Knight of Ni and hang out in Mordor. So there.
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Agreed, Fea, agreed. I can't stand all this MLA or APA or whatever they want us to do. I'd like to toss them into Mount Doom.
I'd like to add portfolio projects to the general homework hate pile.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2005
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And Fea just listed all the reasons why I failed argumentation.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Someday, I'll rule all of it.
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Passive voice: "The bag was carried along by the little girl." (something done to the subject (the bag)) Active voice: "The little girl carried along the bag." (The subject (the little girl) doing something.) Passive is acceptable in small doses just to change the tone when necessary, and to add a little variety, but it's not supposed to be used to excess. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Back on topic, to Mordor with PC. Merry Christmas.
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Blithe Spirit
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PC?
Personal computers? Police Constables?
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Political Correctness.
There is this thing at the moment about not calling the winter celebration Christmas because it is insulting to other religions. To me this seems the tiniest bit insane, but then I already assigned overzealous political correctness so I can ignore it ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment.
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Oh Fea, I hear you!! but I think we should cast all essays to Mordor. Specially for us, science students. I know, I have to learn how to comunicate but.... do I REALLY have to write an essay on something I don't care about written by someone who is not really THAT relevant?
Also, I'll cast essay writers who try to sound really smart and use big words to say simple things. For example "the subconscious tendency of the main character in this segment of the plot..." to say "What Frodo really thinks... Edit, posted at the same time than Kath Politically Correct speech should skip the Mordor stage and be sent right to heck!! (see? I should have said hell yet I'm censoring myself because someone might find it offensive) The "Winter Celebration" is obviously Christmas... and hey, Jewish people have Hanukah usually around the same time of the year (and it really upsets me that Hanukah has become a Jewish Christmas) and I don't really think other religions would find it offensive. If anything, they'll enjoy the day off work!! Or for example, a topic I always struggle with. A person with black skin is called an "African American" yet what if they are from the Middle East? or if they came from Europe? furthermore, what do you call an "african american" who does not live in America? African? so you'd have an European African woman or an Asiatic African man? I mean, I honestly don't know if being called "black" can be found offensive but at least, find a different word to replace it for!! [/End_rant] Last edited by Farael; 11-29-2005 at 01:37 PM. |
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Teachers who memorise long words to sound intelligent, and use them repeatedly or out of context. E.g. "My notes today aren't very expletive."
Teachers who manage to bring their children into every single cursed topic. Sigh. |
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Illusionary Holbytla
Join Date: Dec 2003
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English teachers who do not understand the English language. The sentence was something like "During the Revolutionary War, some colonists wanted to break away from England, while others did not." My English teacher was trying to tell us that the dependent clause "while others did not" was also an adjective clause modifying the infinitive "to break" - no! Dependent clauses don't modify anything! And when I tried to explain this to her, she basically told me I was wrong and that she could understand why I was confused.
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Itinerant Songster
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Estelo dagnir, Melo ring
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Not being able to turn down a good RPG. Ever. Even if you're missing all your fingers, or, worse yet, your creativity.
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Teachers who memorise long words to sound intelligent, and use them repeatedly or out of context. E.g. "My notes today aren't very expletive."
Yes! Yes, yes, yes. Also those who don't actually know the phrase they are trying to use. It's 'the be all and end all' not the 'end be all' - what kind of sense does that make! The explanation? I'm Northern therefore it's dialect. Oh no it isn't! My mother comes from the same place as you oh wise one and she knows how to say it! Ahem, apologies. I had psychology today.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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English teachers should not misspell things. Everyone makes mistakes, but those who nitpick about their students' spelling have absolutely no right to make any. Additionally, they should not make things up, nor should they think that they can get away with making things up because we're ignorant teenagers. They should not claim that a character in Canterbury Tales is practicing necromancy, and then they should not try to make excuses when a certain student (*coughmecough*) asks them to show where it refers even remotely to necromancy and they cannot provide a satisfactory answer. How one gets necromancy from astrology I shall never know. (Oh, that was a fun day... I was the hero of the class for that one. ![]() Quote:
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment.
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I won't comment on Christmas as I've had a friend pretty much yell out loud on a lecture in which there are at least another hundred people "WHY DO YOU HATE CHRISTMAS?" and I actually had to explain to the very friendly girl sitting right in front of me that no, I don't HATE Christmas, I just hate chirstmas music and commercials as they start mid-november and by the time Christmas is really around, they became dull and repetitive!!!!!
Plus, Santa never brings me anything.... =( But I'm not sending Santa to Mordor, this time I'll go off a tangent and send people who won't go to the back of the Bus when it starts to fill up. I mean, why do I have to be squished between the fat guy and the girl who glares at me as if I was actually trying to squish her for some weird sexual pleasure? (I mean, by literally pressing my body against hers having about three layers of clothing in between us trust me, I don't get the least bit exited) Edit: posted at the same time as Encantaire.... and yes, I agree, I'm sure that Sauron reads Heart of Darkness every night before going to bed.... my that's a torture. |
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![]() I assign... um... when you cough up too much money for a peach smoothie from Starbucks and it wasn't even that good. I could have grabbed an Odwalla smoothie for less and been healthier and happier about it. ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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To Mordor with my vocal coach (though just for a day, I suppose). Even after casting him several wounded looks and sniffing desperately, he still insisted I should be able to produce a clear high 'C', which is hard enough as it is and becomes quite impossible when you have such a bad cold you can only speak in a whisper. Also, my pronunciation teacher who turns out to be quite an evil dictator. His teaching methods seem to be taken straight out of My Fair Lady, he looks at you as if he will smash your head in when you accidentally say laft instead of left or fail to voice your final d-s and called me 'silly' and said I sounded like 'a valley girl'. I'm not quite certain what a valley girl is, but I don't think I should feel flattered. I seem to be sending a lot of people to Mordor lately. Perhaps I should try meditation. ![]() |
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I assign active and passive voices. Yes, I know I already did it once, but now I actually know they are and can conassign them in all of their illogical glory. Who in the world writes about a dead person like he's still up and doing things in the present tense? Of course Homer was worriedabout his repressed libido*. He isn't still worried about it! He's dead! Of course he doesn't "say" things, he "said" them a long time ago! Argh. *my research paper deals with psychoanalytic theory and Homer's "potentially repressed libido" cameos in it. ![]()
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Valley girls are, like, you know, this! That guy was, like, soo annoying!
Think stereotypical blonde California girls. (No offense to anyone from California.) |
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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![]() I assign my grumpy attitude that comes with being tired at the end of the day. The person I was ranting about Monday was so nice to me yesterday that I feel guilty about assigning his past behavior to Mordor, even though it was completely exasperating at the time. Honestly, I almost started to think that he saw the post and knew I was talking about him, even though I know that's not particularly likely. I suppose I should send my conscience to Mordor to join Fea's.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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Back on topic, I conassign excessively hard math tests. I didn't even answer two of the questions and there were several ones I did answer that I know couldn't possibly have been right. I thought that was really bad, until I talked to someone else after class, and he said he didn't get to seven questions! That test was just was too hard and long to do in 48 minutes, especially with the very distracting smell of ham cooking throughout most of the period.
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Significant figures in solving Chem problems (especially stoichiometry).
Seriously! Why can't they just be contented with two decimal places? |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Also, to Mordor with the profs who will give you four answers in the multiple choice varying only on the sig. figs.... I mean, COME ON... my answer is 0.856 and the options are 0.85 8.5X10^-1 0.855 0.856 Is it not all the same???? |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Ahhh The Guy Who Be Short!!! you need to review those sig figs!
-0.85 - two sig figs -8.5x10-1 = .850 -- three sig figs -0.855 perhaps I made a rounding error? -0.856 |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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I conassign getting yourself all worked up and angry at somebody, only to find when you go to yell at them that they haven't behaved nearly as badly as you thought they did. You have no way to release all that pent up energy and you feel more than slightly foolish for getting all worked up when the person didn't even really do anything wrong. I also conassign the City of Madison, for never, ever plowing my street when it snows. We got somewhere between 2 and 3 inches last night, and as of right now (5 pm) the street has yet to be plowed. If they ever do get around to doing it (which isn't very likely), it won't make a difference, becaus the snow's already been driven over and packed down so much that the plow won't move it, so it all just turns into a two-inch layer of ice on the street for the whole winter. For the first 5 years or so that we lived in our house our street was always one of the first to be plowed because a member of the City Council lived in our house before we did and it took the city a long time to figure out that he'd moved. Once they finally realized that, they stopped plowing our street! (Suck ups!)
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I conassign Hookbill the Goomba. I might need him in AT-- Er, I mean... because I don't like the way that "hook" and "goom" have the same "oo" sound, but it's pronounced entirely differently. There... *wipes brow* found an excuse.
I also assign my latest tragedy: I went to have a bowl of cereal and when I pulled my soymilk out of the fridge, guess what... yeah... it was frozen solid. So now I'm having a dry bowl of Apple Jacks. And that just ruins my night. ![]() Last edited by Feanor of the Peredhil; 12-01-2005 at 06:19 PM. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
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And two inches of snow? last winter, right before New Year we got two feet!! Gotta love Canada =D |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I'd like to see Wedgies and other assorted Creeping Underpants in Mordor.
Also, those dumb vinyl gloves we have to wear in my food service job, that have a cornstarch powder inside them that stays on your hands and everything you touch. Also, the thought of both of those combined. I live my life in constant paranoia, friends.
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Itinerant Songster
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I (con)assign to Mordor any usage of numbers outside of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I swear, all these (cough) problems showing up on this thread must be some kind of evil code!
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Hauntress of the Havens
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![]() And if Farael, tgwbs, and Oromin don't stop that nonsense they're doing, they'll soon be following it to Mordor. ![]() Dry coughs belong to Sauron and his minions. You know what else I conassign to Mordor? The fact that this thread is longer than that other one over there, outside. *points somewhere to the N&N* Last edited by Lhunardawen; 12-02-2005 at 01:35 AM. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I assign disputes with long time friends that could possiblyend the friendship if either party gets overly emotional while trying to talk it out. I also assign people who get overly emotional over the littlest things. And, completely unrelated, I assign people who keep promising to call at a certain time, and then forget.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
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On a personal note, I send dust to Mordor... yes, dust.... it is most definetly an invention of Sauron or maybe Morgoth himself. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
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![]() I conassign people who try to do things you really should be involved in behind your back in order to cheat you out of things that should be yours. Especially when they're members of your own family.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
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Well, its certainly cold in Alberta! I would like to send that all to Mordor because it is just way to cold. You just have to be outside for a minute and your thighs are frozen. Plus I look like the Michelin Man in my big wintercoat. That can all go to Mordor with the fast express.
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