Comments on: Bolivar’s Finest

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:22:14 +0000

For your faithful readers, could you please post a picture of your cousin Brian? I miss his good looks. Happy thanksgiving. Luckily, this year I only have to bring the desserts!

By: lcreekmo

lcreekmo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:38:49 +0000

Ha, you are lucky. I had one of my favorite professors point out to me I’d used masculine third person nouns in a paper, scold me for not being gender-aware since I worked for the paper, and then he STILL marked me down a letter grade over it.

I’m still not sure whether to be mad at him or Helen Johnson over it. But I am the master of writing grammatically correct sentences while avoiding all gender-specific pronouns in the abstract now.

By: NYC sister

NYC sister — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:04:48 +0000

It’s true about the word hails. I used it in a college paper once, and one of my favorite profs pointed that out to me. Thankfully, he is a big sports fan and knew I wrote for the school paper, so he didn’t hold it against me.