Wednesday
Sep012010
September 1, 2010 Bromance is in, Officially
So are staycation, chillax and about 2,000 others, according to NPR. What a good day for the English language!
I would be a lot more distressed by this news if I had not just read this wonderfully satirical piece, complete with rudimentary illustrations, which constitutes a brilliant and positively-charged smack in the face to people who can't be bothered to spell and punctuate correctly. I am tempted to reproduce one of the hysterical drawings here (I'm a teacher, so I'm allowed) but it's really much funnier if you read the whole series.
Could I get away with using this in the classroom? Probably not -- besides the alcohol references and insensitivity to the disabled, I don't think the kids would get the subtle mix of highbrow and lowbrow humor. But it did make my week, and for the first week of school, that's no small feat.
I would be a lot more distressed by this news if I had not just read this wonderfully satirical piece, complete with rudimentary illustrations, which constitutes a brilliant and positively-charged smack in the face to people who can't be bothered to spell and punctuate correctly. I am tempted to reproduce one of the hysterical drawings here (I'm a teacher, so I'm allowed) but it's really much funnier if you read the whole series.
Could I get away with using this in the classroom? Probably not -- besides the alcohol references and insensitivity to the disabled, I don't think the kids would get the subtle mix of highbrow and lowbrow humor. But it did make my week, and for the first week of school, that's no small feat.
Reader Comments (2)
Oh, man. Now I have to update my slang flashcards.
Nice. There's *alot* of whit in there!