Re: editing

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

How about: Nil nimium studeo, Puella, tibi velle placere (fairly polite)
or Otio exultas nimiumque gestis (admonitory)

Should you wish something thoroughly nasty, there are Hittite curses
directed at the breakers of oaths that could perhaps be adapted.

Actually, we had perhaps the ultimate case of attempted "writing center
abuse" the other week.  A young woman showed up with a fax of a paper
written by her friend in China and wanted us to fix it.

Sara


On Fri, 1 May 1998, anne mullin wrote: 

> I just read Richard Marshall's post immediately after reassuring our
> office secretary that she was right in saying NO to a gal who called up
> wanting to have a friend drop her paper off so one of the tutors could
> "mark it up for her" and send it back via friend. The secretary had
> already explained that that was not the way the Writing Lab works, but
> the student fussed that she "just wasn't going to be on campus for the
> next few days and the paper was due on Thursday." I would love to find a
> way to say Tough S--t and have it sound thoroughly professional AND
> scholarly AND, well, ladylike and nice.  Sara -- what words would
> Catullus have used? 
> aAaaaat that was not the way the Writing Lab works, but;1H> the student
fussed that she "just wasn't going to be on campus for the1 e dyad arwuo
sa." I would love to find a;1H> way to say Tough S--t and have it sound
thoroughly professional AND;1H> scholarly A