bladesjester
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British student gets credit for expletive on exam
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A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.
The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.
"It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying.
The part where I almost sprayed my drink across the screen? lol
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Buckroyd said the student would have received a higher mark if the phrase had been punctuated.
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7/1/2008, 16:45
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Re: British student gets credit for expletive on exam
I'm sure many a student has thought it during that prof's class.
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7/1/2008, 17:06
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That sentence ends in a preposition. Doesn't grammar count anymore?
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7/1/2008, 18:10
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Re: British student gets credit for expletive on exam
It seems that bib is a proscriptivist rather than a descriptivist when it comes to grammar.
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7/1/2008, 18:33
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