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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