That spelling steps on my nerve endings. Damned Limeys.
I've been noticing a lot more of the single quotes among the younger generation lately too. I don't get it.
My students do it constantly (but, then, so do a lot of academic clients). If there's a consistency, it's that stuff that you're definitely quoted properly uses doubles, but if it's in the textual form of air quotes, they use singles. It's so common and the distinction fairly clear that I can only assume it's being taught at the secondary level.
How do those of us that are no longer in school keep up with things like this? There should be an amber alert on my phone or something.
Just be glad that it's not part of your job description to do battle with that crap. I want to talk with students about thinking more boldly, not explain over and over the difference between a footnote reference and a bibliographic one. But guess which one occupies more of my comments in papers?
Hello,
I usually tell my grad students they're going to think I'm an English teacher for the first half of class. I've found that "nip it in the bud" (correct use of double quotes?) works best. Thanks, Barney Fife!
I've been noticing a lot more of the single quotes among the younger generation lately too. I don't get it.
My students do it constantly (but, then, so do a lot of academic clients). If there's a consistency, it's that stuff that you're definitely quoted properly uses doubles, but if it's in the textual form of air quotes, they use singles. It's so common and the distinction fairly clear that I can only assume it's being taught at the secondary level.
How do those of us that are no longer in school keep up with things like this? There should be an amber alert on my phone or something.
Just be glad that it's not part of your job description to do battle with that crap. I want to talk with students about thinking more boldly, not explain over and over the difference between a footnote reference and a bibliographic one. But guess which one occupies more of my comments in papers?
Hello,
I usually tell my grad students they're going to think I'm an English teacher for the first half of class. I've found that "nip it in the bud" (correct use of double quotes?) works best. Thanks, Barney Fife!
Every class I've taught I've set aside time to talk about writing. I encourage bold ideas, even if they aren't fully persuasive, but I'm a serious hard ass about stuff like citations and treating writing as something more than just functional. Never had more than two or three that really took it to heart, tho. And they were already quite capable writers.
On mobile, I go to check my notifications and this is what happens. A72ACAB4-6FF0-45DA-B9F0-08D15E1D6650.png
a little triangle appears. Nothing else happens.
Try logging out, clearing your browser cache, then logging in again?
AKA the online version of "turn if off and on again" or "is it plugged in?"
& as such the first thing I tried--before reporting the error. It works fine on desktop, just not on mobile.
Re: We're back!
Posted: 08 Nov 2018, 8:22pm
by 101Walterton
Inder there seems to be a problem with embedding You Tube clips?
