"Favorite" student sentences

[Parasaurolophus]

A tickling bomb is a terrifying thought!  I can see it being used to deal with crowds of rioters, or possibly turned on peaceful protestors.

Sounds like an egregious human rights violation to me!

[Juvenal]

From the introductory paragraph of an essay:

Time flows and runs like a river, and as time goes, one thing comes after another...

This is a hard-working student who needs some help with the language.

So true.  At least I think so.  See my accompanying thought.

[ergative]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

[apl68]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

[ergative]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

I think it might be a typo for 'deaf'... ? That was discussed in the class, but there's no other discussion of deafness in the essay, so 🤷‍♀️

[Puget]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

I think it might be a typo for 'deaf'... ? That was discussed in the class, but there's no other discussion of deafness in the essay, so 🤷‍♀️

Language development in zombie and ghost children has been greatly under-studied, presenting many important future directions. . .

[onthefringe]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

I think it might be a typo for 'deaf'... ? That was discussed in the class, but there's no other discussion of deafness in the essay, so 🤷‍♀️

Since the dawn of time Llanguage development in zombie and ghost children has been greatly under-studied, presenting many important future directions. . .

Fixed that for you

[apl68]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

I think it might be a typo for 'deaf'... ? That was discussed in the class, but there's no other discussion of deafness in the essay, so 🤷‍♀️

Language development in zombie and ghost children has been greatly under-studied, presenting many important future directions. . .

You're right, it has been under-studied.  Which means that nobody is even trying to do anything about improving how notoriously inarticulate they are.

[Puget]

Children (dead or not), are born with the ability to learn language...

Was the reference to dead children perhaps a tone-deaf attempt to say "children of past times?"  You know, people born so long ago that they can't help being dead by now?

I think it might be a typo for 'deaf'... ? That was discussed in the class, but there's no other discussion of deafness in the essay, so 🤷‍♀️

Language development in zombie and ghost children has been greatly under-studied, presenting many important future directions. . .

You're right, it has been under-studied.  Which means that nobody is even trying to do anything about improving how notoriously inarticulate they are.

Time for a crowd sourced grant application?
NICHD RO1: Innovative Approaches to Improving Language Development Outcomes in Undead and Disincorporated Children

[mamselle]

Go for it!

You start the thread, we'll all pile on.

;--}

M.

[OneMoreYear]

I know we've all had these, but a sentence in the introduction of a dissertation proposal (not quite the 1st sentence, but close):

Play is something that humans have done since the beginning of time.

[Anon1787]

"He uses the slipper slope fallacy." Stu used "slipper slope" twice, so it's probably not a typo. Does this argument involve throwing a slipper like that Iraqi journalist did to President Bush?

[apl68]

I've always been partial to hiking in the mountains in rubber-soled sneakers as opposed to hiking boots myself.  But mountaineering in slippers seems to minimalist.

[AmLitHist]

"Macs and PCs both have occult like followings."

[apl68]

"Macs and PCs both have occult like followings."

Well, I have to admit that users of both who are more proficient than I do seem to me to possess a great deal of hidden knowledge.