Hello, I'm here, I'm living in the walls

[zekiwolf]

I'm tentatively making my entries publicly visible again, but if certain professors of biology show signs of stalking me again, I shall have to go back to my hidden ways. XD

Comments

[ceruleanghost]

No, you're not snobby. "Save," used in that context, should be part of the common vocab. I use it all the time, and if anyone ever confronted me about it, I'd tell them to expand their vocabulary. "Puce" is a little obscure, but whatever -- rather than get annoyed, it prompts me to look the word up and learn more about it.

That's really weird that a professor would want to dumb-down an essay for your class. It seems...contradictory?

[zekiwolf]

I have NEVER before had a writing teacher tell me to use a simpler vocabulary. It IS very weird.

[ceruleanghost]

It tells more about her -- and her own discomfort and writing level -- than it does about anything else. Maybe *she* had to look up these words, and as a teacher who should know them already, it probably unsettled her and made her irrationally angry.

[ichiban_victory]

You ought to write your next paper in 'l33t', then your classmates will understand you perfectly!

In all seriousness, I would be in the same boat you are. Why penalize someone who takes the time to expand their vocabulary? Yes, there are times where using more obscure words is not appropriate...but "save" and "puce" are not archaic. You shouldn't have to dumb down anything.

"Puce" actually made me smile since it was used as a running gag in Pixar's Monster's Inc.

On an even more amusing note, you ought to gift the class with that 'Balderdash' board game and make them play. As for me, I'm going to sit until my curple's purple, and contemplate a tuckernuck. Oh wait, I can't use words like contemplate... I'm gonna sit on my butt and think of stuff. I sure sound intelligent now!

[zekiwolf]

I am so glad people agree with me here. XD

[zekiwolf]

Yeah. I don't mind playing by her silly rules till the end of the semester. I'm in her class for the grade, and that's it.

[alueus]

I'm with Sparf. That teacher is STUPID. |: Like.. wow. A COLLEGE professor.. telling you to dumb down your writing? REALLY?

No. Just--NO. omg.
And no I don't think you don't sound snobby at all. That teacher just needs to stfu. -_-

[zekiwolf]

Yep, she's a weird one.

[lukrietz]

Everything's all ready been said, but yeah, you don't sound snobby at all. Though I've had similar thoughts about my own writings and I've even been told, both by Word and a few people - though mostly by Word, that evil program - that I use old-fashioned words, and it annoys me to no end. Usually people like my usage of words, though.
I think it's rather lolz that she didn't want you to use "save". I know what it means, and I'm pretty sure that the first time I saw someone write "save of", I immediately understood what it meant based on the context. And this is coming from a young Swede. Above average, indeed.
I did not know what colour puce was though, but I would at least know that it was a colour. XD

I really don't speak/write the way I do to impress people or to sound important, I just like writing that way and it's my passion. I like how certain words sounds like, and so I use them if I see fit.
Don't change the way you write because of that nincompoop (ohoho).
I'm rather sad that she didn't comment on the Waffle House, too.

[zekiwolf]

I should print off this page of comments and show her that everyone DOES know what 'save' means in that context. XD Even people who speak English as a second language! Perhaps teachers' underestimating of their students contributes to poor education as much as student ignorance and poor curriculum.