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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

650.0. "Educational gafflebab" by KAOFS::S_BROOK (Here today and here again tomorrow) Mon Apr 10 1989 21:48

    How about a list of your favourite gafflebab emanating from those
    people who 1) ought to know better, 2) are in the dangerous position
    of propogating this verbal diaorrhea and 3) should be hung drawn
    and quartered for using it:
    
                            TEACHERS
    
    Starting with the eternal classics

    Could do better.  =>  Is just downright lazy.
    A valuable learning experience  => school
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650.1and the catchall...VINO::MCGLINCHEYSancho! My Armor! My TECO Macros!Mon Apr 10 1989 22:3612
    
    
    
    	"not living up to his (her) potential" - cheap shot
    	to inflict guilt.
    
    	I really dislike this one, as it makes little sense.
    	As a parent, I really don't want my child living up
    	to his/her potential while in school. I want them
    	to keep some in reserve for later.
    
    	-- Glinch
650.2more lazinessIOSG::LAWMMathew Law (only *one* T), Reading UKTue Apr 11 1989 13:527
    
    Another synonym for lazy, often found in my school reports was
    `complacent'
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    
650.3Could apply to Notes?NEARLY::GOODENOUGHWed Apr 12 1989 00:475
    A lively contributor to classroom discussions
    
    = never stops talking.
    
    Jeff.
650.4The teachers' point of view?MARVIN::MACHINWed Apr 12 1989 14:1012
    I think these phrases are invented by teachers to break the
    news to parents that their offspring are not the impeccably behaved
    genii they might have imagined. And also to avoid the punch in the face
    on parents' evening that might follow to forthright an appraisal.
    
    Richard. (Whose wife is a teacher, and says parental stroppiness is
    proportional to income times the sqwuare of the thickness of their
    offspring plus the the opinion they hold (on a scale of one to ten)
    with an additional factor related to whether the husband has had a
    vasectomy and regrets not being able to beget a brighter one).
    
    Richard.