Re: grammar tricks

["Carol Finke" <finkec@k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us>]

Yeah, epiphanies are easier to share than anchovies.

> Date:          Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:47:22 -0600
> Reply-to:      wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> From:          Margaret Clark <clark@uhdux2.dt.uh.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu>
> Subject:       Re: grammar tricks

> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Carol Finke wrote:
> 
> > Nevertheless, the more I think about it, the more I think the 
> > join/separate distinction is pretty arbitrary.  After all, don't 
> > semi-colons not only join two independent clauses within one sentence 
> > but also separate them for the reader?  This strikes me as a true 
> > "trick" (as opposed to a trick?) -- it may help some students, but it 
> > certainly wouldn't stand up to those students who like to scrutinize 
> > one's explanations.
> 
> Should I ask you to explain the difference between a "trick" and a trick? 
> Nah. 
> 
> Okay, I had this epiphany in the shower this morning. About commas, yes. 
> I really irritate myself when I forget that the function of some things is
> to indicate a relationship between elements, and that of course (I know
> you just said this, but I wanna tell my epiphany) that relationship is by
> definition at least bi-directional if not multidirectional
> (omnidirectional? perhaps not.) and I was just plain silly for trying to say
> that the darn things work in just one direction. 
> 
> Did you say anchovies?
> 
> > And now for something completely different . . . 
> 
> Yeah, like grrrrrading papers.
> 
> See you --
> 
> Margaret 
> calrk@dt.uh.edu
> 
> 
> 
Carol G. Finke
Writing Center Coordinator, Kirtland Community College
Roscommon, MI 48653
517-275-5121 ext. 386
finkec@k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us
Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer should be. --B.F.Skinner