Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.
My 7th grade English teacher changed me. Hope you’re still busting balls and wearing outlandishly chunky necklaces, Mrs Locke.
Granted she only managed to change me from an idiot kid into an idiot who wanted to be smart, but it was a start.
Yeah, English was always a fucking pain. As an adult though I wish I remembered the parts of speech and how to structure English documents well. A huge part of my job in tech is explaining things in English text.
Engineer on an enablement team
In high school an English teacher helped start me on the path to wind up here by making us learn about McCarthyism and making me do a report on the Vietnam war (everyone had a 20th century event to report on). The whole incident left me more open minded towards left wing anti authoritarianism
I wish there were more like that, who have you engage with topics and reach your own conclusions
My 6th grade English teacher was the hottest teacher in the school. She’d sit in a boys lap and then ask them to come to the board to answer a problem.
Later it came out publicly that much of the school administration and teachers, city council, and some of the religious leaders were involved in a large and well-known (among the adults, I guess?) swingers club. Small towns get down.
It did largely change the dynamic of the town after they all moved and got fired from what I hear. The abusive kids elementary gym teacher and later high school boy’s weight lifting coach became the principal, one or two principals after one fled the country because of rumors of inappropriate relations with a minor.
Edit: I’m curious if this is going to be one of those comments that get 10 replies from 10 different people from small towns of “Was this in Y city/state?”
you laugh until your STEM-only software engineer tries to write marketing copy, he circumnavigated the marketing department and sent the ads at a conference straight to the contact without getting it approved.
I can’t post the text as it’ll dox me but here’s an approximation, about running, but instead imagine it’s a software product
#NO RUNNING
or exercise
^just ^running ^ability ^made ^better
Yeah I made the mistake of learning to write well in high school then majoring in engineering and being good at it. Unfortunately that meant I was the designated person in group projects for both doing the thing and writing it up
No one needs marketing copy.
yeah but we all, unfortunately, need jobs, and jobs are at companies, and companies make money from sales, sales happen on a market, and you need marketing so people know it exists.
I’d happily abolish the whole stack for a free house, garden, entertainment and groceries for life.
God, if only
Marketing these days goes far beyond putting out awareness of existence (that step I’m aware of and support - it’s great when a YouTube ad shows something interesting I actually need). These days it’s all psychological reinforcement of an invented need.
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀 always has been
Just working utilities. Send text files as marketing copy. If everyone did that it’d be fine.
“This is what we make, at this price. Reply to inquire. Goodbye”.txt
that is precisely what SERP and sales prospecting marketing is. Except paid SERP placement and plaintext email displayed in a browser or email client rather than a text editor.
All billboards and everything. One sentence only.
Circumnavigated? Like, sent it around to everyone in marketing, one after another?
That…doesn’t make much sense in the context you provided. Autocorrupt strikes again?
navigated around, to mean avoid, definition 2 here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumnavigate
That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but really there’s little etymological or metaphorical difference except personal preference
but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
EN-UK vs EN-US thing
That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.
This resonates. I had 3 English teachers from 3rd to 6th grade that were replaced by either long term subs, which was decent, or a rotating cast of clowns that shouldn’t have been around children.
Yeah you either luck out and get great ones, or it’s a job equivalent of adult daycare
Also ruining children’s love for books by making them read “classics”.
That’s often the state curriculum. Don’t hate the player hate the game baby
Some classics are good enough to read. The problem is in forcing kids to try to do in-depth analysis. Even Charles Dickens or Charlotte Bronte isn’t all that bad to read, until you are squinting at every third word and wondering if this could mean something in the context of the whole book and just maybe you can write about it well enough in your stupid journal that you really want a B in so your parents don’t whip you with the belt again.
can’t relate, all of my English teachers have been male and they have almost without fail been insane
As a former English teacher, I can say that I have made some rash decisions in my life
I always thought my English teachers were really insightful… then I realized most of the insight was from the teacher’s guide :/.
Man, I taught English for 6 years… It was year 6 when I found out there were teacher guides.
I had spent the whole time actually making curriculum. No wonder I burned out
Good for them
this is wildly out of pocket, english teachers are CATCHING HANDS right now, jesus.
English mother fucka, do you speak it!
I had exactly two English teachers who were good, which was all I needed.
One when I was young, taught me how to communicate and understand complex ideas properly.
Another my first year of college, who taught me that deeper meanings and subtleties in fiction wasn’t entirely bullshit. Surprisingly, she did this by making us read Frankenstein and watch Blade Runner.
Everything in the middle though…woof. Learning to write academic papers has no value unless you’re an academic, and the other 10 literature courses I took all just made me hate reading, even the year where we just read my 4 favorite books.
Hey, getting pregnant is hard work
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Reminds me of that psycho english teacher i had .
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