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Okay, I just liked that title, although my gripe is fairly particularized. I'm sick of thinking about grammar. At least in an organized way. Explicit grammar has been surrounding me lately, and so I use expletives (such as "it" - sometimes an expletive).
But yes. Grammar. Tutoring an English test for teachers. Correcting the second batch of Sociolinguistics papers (28 down, 17 to go). Syntax, semantics, and German class.
Not to babble on, to babelize biblically, but when I get ocassional glances of the real world beyond these trivial concerns, I get silly:
-News: the U.S. midterms
-Response: Can't be worse than an Advanced Syntax midterm!
(Har, har. As if this is a widespread concern.)
-News: Ontario government uses the "notwithstanding clause" to stop teachers from striking.
-Response: 'Notwithstanding' isn't even a clausal connector. It's a preposition. Wait, is it always? Do I even know what I'm talking about??
(Only somewhat, sometimes. Quantifiers! Like how I wasted my already ill-advised time on a certain sister site of this last week, but refrained from shaking it and screaming, "GET SOME FUCKING NUANCE!" I'm no fun at parties, but my imagination is.)
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