What do you think of this accountability mixed metaphor?
I’m now done with the preface and chapters 1-2 of Accountability Frankenstein, and I just noticed the following mixed metaphor: For a school official to say blithely that elementary teachers should deemphasize -ing word endings in language arts because -s and -es endings are on the test but -ing endings are not is letting the […]
Did I really say that? and other interactions with journalists
This morning, I was quoted in a local newspaper article on our school district calendar as saying, “There was much kind of grumbling on the committee about those options.” Much kind of?? Someone please remind me to write everything down before I respond to off-the-cuff questions of a journalist. Peter Jennings I’m obviously not. Marilyn […]
Adventures in postmodernist typos
By Sherman Dorn on September 7, 2006
So after reading Michel Bérubé’s blog entry yesterday, wherein he discusses “residual humanism at work in Marxism [Raymond] Williams-style,” and why he likes it, among other things, something in it reminded me of his July 25, 2005, entry, wherein he had discussed the latest Harry Potter book and cultural studies, writing at the end, If […]
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