Upserd Student Misspellings, Reeducks

[Langue_doc]

"post pardon depression" [following childbirth]

[Parasaurolophus]

I haven't gotten this one in a while: tempura instead of tempera. Makes me want sushi while I'm grading.

Prolly not such a great fresco medium, although I will grant that the batter sticks to the fish.

[paultuttle]

"post pardon depression" [following childbirth]

So pregnancy = incarceration?



Huh.

[Parasaurolophus]

"post pardon depression" [following childbirth]

So pregnancy = incarceration?



Huh.

For the foetus, anyway. That's why they kick and punch and try to build an annex behind your ribs.

[Biologist_]

Or when Autocorrect goes in by stealth after you think you've checked everything and changes stuff behind your back.

My phone does that when I'm writing in French. I have to double-check everything twice before hitting send on a text because it refuses to 'learn' the words I use often enough that it ought to 'know them' by now.

(I know I could change languages, but finding the place to do that from keeps changing and making me mad..."

M.

My phone sometimes inserts a word from <alternate language> in the middle of a text message or switches to the foreign language keyboard on the fly. On my phone, I just have to long-press the spacebar to pop up the language selection menu.

I have informed a few of my frequent correspondents that I will leave some of the autocorrect errors in place for their amusement. That way I can balance the annoyance with some mirth when I'm trying to compose something on my phone.

[mamselle]

I'm always worried that, if I did that, the error might turn out to be considered an obscenity in their language...

;--》

M.

[apl68]

I still think it's hard to beat the elementary Spanish student from some years back who turned arroz con pato into arroz con gato.

[mamselle]

Oh, no!!!

Poor kitty....

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

J-walking.

Probably related to canoeing...

[poiuy]

I often get students in my (social science) field who write 'martial' for 'marital', or 'birth rate' instead of 'birth weight'.

Last week I got one new to me: "something oblong those lines"

[paultuttle]

This was in the U.S. News & World Report this morning, not a student paper, but "galavanting" instead of (I presume) "gallivanting."






[Side note: Who knew that the fantasy musical medieval TV show called "Galavant" was so popular? After all, it was canceled after only two seasons . . . .]

[apl68]

J-walking.

Probably related to canoeing...

It's walking like they walk in Japan.  There was a fad for it awhile back among anime fans in North America.  I've got a couple of CDs of J-pop music, but I've never tried J-walking.

[AmLitHist]

I'm grading final 101 papers for summer.  I was just breezing through when one stopped me in my tracks:  it explained the debate over the evils of global worming.

Since we've been talking about basic new kitty care for Kid #1's little family of barn cats, you can probably imagine that it took me a good deal of head-shaking to figure out what was going on, and a little more time to realize that, no, it wasn't just me misreading the text.

Being the curious type, I couldn't resist, so I ran a "find"--the student misspelled "warming" as "worming" 47 times in a 700-word paper.

I'm gettin' too damn old for this......

[mamselle]

Did you search for it online?

Sorry, but, you know...

Could have been plagiarized and they didn't know any better than to let it stand...

M.

[the_geneticist]

Classic example of why you can't trust software to proofread for you.  And some folks cannot hear the difference between "worm" and "warm" so it might be a genuine misunderstanding.

But you should also run that through a plagiarism checker.