But English was my thing. As it happens, I am now a professional writer and editor. This is in no way thanks to him! He was the kind of English teacher who nitpicked about rules and sucked the joy out of reading and interpreting literature. He would dock you for every spelling or grammar error made in a paper—so if you could make a solid argument that the pig in Lord of the Flies was a metaphor for lost civilization, but you spelled “civilization” wrong throughout the paper, you’d get a D. He almost ruined books for me. Now, apparently, he’s moved on to trying to ruin democracy.
It's literally his job.
It's to reinforce the idea of proofreading your work for errors and verifying there are no mistakes. It's like these whiny entitled dickheads see accountability and quality standards as a terrible accostments to their fragile ego.
I didn't need an entire article of a person crying just to say he's pedantic and thinks people should have enough pride in their work to make sure they present it in the best way possible.
Who the hell is going to take a piece seriously if it's littered with plainly obvious mistakes?
It's par for the course, isn't it? There's no way to disprove an interpretation because it's all based on feelings, not even a compelling argument is needed. Spelling on the other hand is fixed, you get it wrong you get marked down.
These people want to be rewarded for things that hold no objective value because their work never holds objective value.
The state of journalism in 2020, everyone.
It's literally his job.
It's to reinforce the idea of proofreading your work for errors and verifying there are no mistakes. It's like these whiny entitled dickheads see accountability and quality standards as a terrible accostments to their fragile ego.
I didn't need an entire article of a person crying just to say he's pedantic and thinks people should have enough pride in their work to make sure they present it in the best way possible.
Who the hell is going to take a piece seriously if it's littered with plainly obvious mistakes?
It's par for the course, isn't it? There's no way to disprove an interpretation because it's all based on feelings, not even a compelling argument is needed. Spelling on the other hand is fixed, you get it wrong you get marked down.
These people want to be rewarded for things that hold no objective value because their work never holds objective value.