From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gordon Asher
Sent: 23 August 2013 15:25
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Subject: People who highlight minor grammar points are amazing

People who highlight minor grammar points are amazing

Professor Henry Brubaker said: “In no way are any of these people vain, arsey pedants.Researchers at the Institute for Studies found that people who loudly exclaim about apostrophes and ‘who versus whom’ are actually better than everyone else.

 

“Grammar perfectionists are both intellectually and morally superior to other types of human.

 

“The way they selflessly dedicate themselves to correct punctuation, for example by pointing out to the staff of a chip shop why the term ‘chip’s’ is a sloppy obfuscation, confirms they are bold and righteous individuals.

 

“If grammar people just learned to let things go sometimes, where would we be as a civilisation? Just fighting in mud, probably.” 56-year-old Roy Hobbs said: “Heaven forbid that my scrupulous attention to linguistic detail should be driven by intellectual vanity. “The reason I loudly vocalise my frustration about a writer confusing ‘that’ and which’ is because of my passion for good English.

“It’s not that I want a crowded room to know how clever I am.”

 

43-year-old pedant Mary Fisher said: “So we are ‘generally better’? Better than whom? Better is a relative term. “But perhaps you didn’t know that.”

 

Work like you don't need money
Love like you've never been hurt
and dance like no-one's watching

 

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate
integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system
and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."  
Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)