Re: tutor perks/name tags

[Lee Hammer <lhammer@culver.edu>]

At 10:52 AM 2/22/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Jeanne and Lee,
>
>I think I see your what your problem was: the name tags should have
>read "GRAMMAR POLICE" or "LINGUISTIC LITIGATION" or some such
>nonsense.  :-}
>
>Cliff Barnett

Yes.  It's all clear to me now.  Maybe "RHETORIC RECEPTIONIST" or "SYNTACTIC
SURGICAL TECHNICIAN" would do as well.

I confess in some of my darker, more cynical moments I've envisioned even
better--especially as I toy with "satelite" tutoring ideas: How about
Grammatical Inquisitors, equipped in black capes and wide-brimmed black
hats, charged with hiding behind trees and lurking around the corners of
buildings, carefully listening for language heresies in passers-by, and then
leaping out with the accusatory cry, "NO ONE ESCAPES THE GRAMMATICAL
INQUISITION!"  The accused would then be carted off to the High Dean's
office where they would be made to sign Grammatical Retractions or be exiled
to a neighboring state.

I've watched too much Monty Python.

-- Lee

Dr. Lee Hammer 
English
Culver-Stockton College
Canton, MO