Categories: teaching
Tags: procrastination, essays
Date: 05 April 2006 13:38:38
I have a public health alert. There has been a major outbreak of semicolonitis amongst 1st year undergrads. Major symptoms include liberal random sprinklings in the most unexpected and uncomfortable places, with a corresponding complete lack of semicolons in the rare places where you would actually expect them. This unfortunate state of affairs has a knock-on effect in producing involuntary head-in-hand movements and deep despairing groaning from anyone (particularly hapless tutors) unfortunate enough to be unable to step out of the way in time.
I have also garnered a new set of comedy typos, but am saving them up for the end (should be by the weekend) when I can regale you with the whole lot in a post of extreme merriment/excruciating embarrassment depending on your perspective on these things.
It's no fun being a pedant you know. Life would be so much less stressful if I didn't care.