Today’s quote comes from a student’s journal. I can’t remember the topic, and I’m not totally sure about which student crafted it, but to be completely upfront about it: Journals are meant to be prewriting and are not graded on spelling, grammar, or sentence structure.
What I like about today’s quote is that it gives me an opportunity to say that the only time I really ever take on the Grammar Snob persona is when someone is giving someone else a hard time about being (insert any given synonym of unintelligent here) and, in the process, shows that he or she, in fact, does not know it all. That’s when I’ll step in a point out that he or she who is feeling so high-and-mighty might just need a little reality check.
So, without further ado, our very first Student Quote of the Day:
“Like some people I know is about so dumb that he probably don’t know how to spell.”
Not exactly the best reflection on his or her English teacher, but — hey! — we’ve still got a couple months to go!
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