wide array of death euphemisms

Bethany K. Dumas dumasb at UTK.EDU
Thu Sep 2 22:47:00 UTC 2004


>It seems that children today are not tested enough on punctuation.  When
reading
>something someone wrote, the idea is for it to speak for them, they sound
>ignorant and uneducated to not be able to use the correct punctuation when
>writing.  That bothers me to no end, especially when grammar, syntax,
semantics
>and the english language is concentrated on so greatly in schools.  Someone's
>not doing their jobs, is it the teachers or the students??

"to no end"?

Let's test on idioms as well as punctuation. I.e., "By the way, does '[bothers
me] to no end' mean
[bothers] without purpose'?" [quoted from Vocabula]

Or was that last century?

Bethany



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