After having been work-shopped I am very pleased with the level of honesty and sincerity the class has shown to my work as well as to the rest of the class. I enjoyed reading everyone's essays and was surprised at the level of writing our 'techniques' class has. The only thing i wish was different is if everyone could comment on everyone's essay; I know the class is entirely to big but just by having that many more minds looking and dissecting your piece can give it that much more appeal to other readers. The workshop process has always been an important part of my writing style and I am thankful that it will continue to be a part of this class.
This next little bit is more of a rant and completely off topic. I recently had a heated debate as to what the plural of mongoose was; I figured goose are geese so mongoose are mongeese. WRONG! The plural is 'mongooses;' I feel slightly stupider when I say it. I know it doesn't come up in conversation often, if not at all but it still pisses me off. After I found this out i remember a while ago seeing fish spelled ghoti. The 'gh' as in couGH; the 'o' as is wOmen; the 'ti' as in naTIon. I have always been a terrible speller and the English language does absolutely nothing to help me with my problem. I have always been amazed when a foreigner grasps the English language at any level because of its many backwards and misleading rules. I just had to get that off my chest.
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mongooses? OUCH! That is painfully awkward! >_<
Well, you know what they say about English (among other things...):
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways, beats them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar."
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