There has been, historically, a great way of enumerating the difference between skills-based writing instruction and the discipline that I have chosen to commit myself to.
– Jeff Ward
Irony rears its informal head from the slough of academe.
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William "Papa" Meloney 03.16.08 at 7:47
A young southern gentleman of great intellect was on the campus of an Ivy League university for the first time, and was running late for an appointment with the registrar. He stopped a passing student on the quad and asked, “Pardon me, but could ya’ll tell me where the registrar’s office is at?”
The student harumphed, and with great condescension replied, “Sir, at this school we don’t end our sentences with a preposition.”
The young southern gentleman quickly responded, “Well, all right then. Let me try again. Could ya’ll tell me where the registrar’s office is at, ya big jerk?”
http://www.ivpress.com/blogs/behindthebooks/archives/2007/11/good_english_versus_good_titli.php
madame l. 03.17.08 at 7:19
shouldn’t it be “skillz-based”, Pilgrim?
as in: you see that guy hittin on the pipe? that’s some skillz-based shit right there. that’s what you and me was talkin about.
W”P”M: laughing.