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lil  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Write Better, Dammit!: Men, Women, and Truck Drivers - and Parallel Structure

Dude!!! You get $5 per typo found. That's what I give my daughter. I give her money anyway. She may as well work for it.

When my students find my typos, they only get chocolates. But note: they are good chocolates.

    It suggests that truck drivers are somehow a class unto themselves. It's actually a provocative sentence.
Not exactly, dude. It suggests that truck drivers are somehow a gender unto themselves.

Speaking of teaching, I have to give a shout-out to my finest teaching moment.