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Siobhan Curious Says: Teachers are People Too

FYI

Dear Composition 101 students:
“YOLO” is not a topic sentence.

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9 responses to “FYI”

  1. shadowmountains Avatar
    shadowmountains

    I don”t even know what YOLO means.

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    1. Meredith L. Avatar
      Meredith L.

      You Only Live Once. My favorite is when people use “LOL” in a formal proposal or resume.

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      1. kevinsterne Avatar
        kevinsterne

        Wow. That just blows my mind.

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  2. kevinsterne Avatar
    kevinsterne

    ugh. Luckily as a peer writing tutor I have never come across that. How sad is the education system now that students are that inept at writing?

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  3. Kathleen R Avatar
    Kathleen R

    And don’t forget the topic sentence “Today I’m going to write about…”

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  4. kevinsterne Avatar
    kevinsterne

    sometimes I want to file a missing person’s report for the time I lose reading awful papers

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  5. bbutler627 Avatar
    bbutler627

    Hahahhahaha! It was better referred to as carpe diem, kids :). Stop using YOLO and no more LOL, IDK or numbers in words. I h8 it.

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  6. Jazzman Avatar
    Jazzman

    Also in this category:

    “Student, if you say ‘swag’ one more time, I will slap you with a dictionary until you can describe someone with a word you’re not using incorrectly and ironically (although you don’t know what that means either).”

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  7. poeticargument Avatar
    poeticargument

    Oooh, fantastic! I have yet to come across that one.

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