This one is JMG's extra credit for doing the assignment ahead of schedule and being verbo....I mean exceeding the 300 word minimum.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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Ha! That would be my luck--I complain, so they get too deep on me and I'm in way over my head.
Was that my extra credit?
No. I will post another one for your extra credit (on this same post). More of a MD one, like the last Red & Rover. Keep watching.
Tony
That's great Tony!!
LOL =-)!
Those are great and right up JMG's alley.
Gee, Tony, I don't even use the word verbose with my students. Half of them wouldn't know what it means.
Question JMG, can students use Hope Scholarship money to purchase a dictionary and thesaurus?
And everyone, I hope you know I was kidding about the verbose, because that would be the pot calling stainless steel black.
Parsimony in communication is not my strength, although I work at diligently.
Tony
I don't have any idea how the Hope Scholarship works. However, I just looked up some statistics and found that in the Fall 2005 semester, 72% of MTSU students received financial aid, and the average award was $7093. Considering that full-time tuition (not counting residence, books, meal plan, etc.) is about $2400 per semester, most students are receiving a free education, having to pay only for their books and housing. What is left over from their financial aid after paying tuition gives the student about a thousand dollars to pay for other expenses.
So no excuse to not have a dictionary and thesaurus. You are free to use words like verbose then.
You need to teach them the art of sesquipedaliansim.
Example: The gentlemen was notably proficient in the utilization of sesquipedalianism to illuminate current events at the conventicle he customarily frequented.
Anyone--feel free to attempt a translation and I will provide the answer later.
Tony
Your gentleman was probably so condescending and pedantic that he was run off from the more reputable and legitimate venues. I wouldn't give him an audience either.
Show off!
:-)
The gentlemen was notably proficient in the utilization of sesquipedalianism to illuminate current events at the conventicle he customarily frequented.
Translation: Everyone knew the man like to use big words in making church announcement.
Tony
He was probably a college professor.
That reminds me of a funny limerick:
There once was an old man from Esser
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
It at last grew so small
He knew nothing at all,
And now he's a college professor!
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