This sums up how I approach it.
I get what essentially amounts to straight A's in core classes.

Yea I do this...a bit. I kinda half-ass my music class and w.e. dumb class I have to take and focus more on the important ones.

I agree many are just lazy, but I majored in Economics and Political Science. It was unbelievable how terrible many of my fellow students in these two majors were at math. Many could not even do basic algebra that I could do in 6th grade. For example, we would have problems like this:

Y = 30 T + (50(1-T)) + 100 T
Solve for Y when T = 0.3, 0.2, & 0.15

The majority of my economics class looked at this like it was writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. This isn't laziness. This is complete inability to do basic math.

I'm not going to lie. I became an English major cuz....i'm...not very good at math haha I can get it done it just takes me a while to learn things.

This made my laugh more than it should. Also: STOP TALKING! MORE FUNNY PICS!

I am suddenly reminded of a scene from the movie Roxanne with Steve Martin.

When I was in college in the English dept. in the 70s, if you made a grammatical or punctuation error in a ppr. you got an F.

Taught you to never make the same mistake twice.

Better for What Grinds Your Gears thread: Like saying "a myriad of..." when myriad is an adjective, not a noun. Sports announcers make this mistake all the time.:explode:

Yes, but one could argue that you are viewing language from a prescriptive rather than descriptive linguistics, which is silly because language is constantly evolving.

From dictionary.com

It can be used as both a noun or adjective

Great ad

I love **** like this and probably won't stop laughing at it...ever.

Reminds me of:

Haha that's ******* great.

Looks photoshoped.

Who ******* cares? Just enjoy the funny damnit.

haha word... did anyone actually think it was real?

Fix'd yall

Hoorah! I had to settle for a lesser picture.

I care. Deeply. All of the internets has to be true.

Says the guy who has purposefully altered Wikipedia.

The Secret Weapon man

Never trust the Amish. You're from the South, so you don't know of their dastardly ways.

Looks photoshopped to me.

i will stab you for the fifth time. descriptive linguistics as applied to the english language is ******* idiotic. it amounts to, 'well i can call this zebra a pizza and if enough other idiots join in, i can still act like i'm using the right word.' or like suggesting that text-speak is completely ok for an english paper because like whatever man, language is like evolving.

descriptive linguistics is this field that was probably really useful when tracking trends in language but then became really useless the first time someone tried applying it to right now.

tl;dr - i will totally liberal arts fight you. i think that involves reading poetry in the quad later.
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I agree with you, but someone has to be the Devil's advocate around here. Also, I, too, majored in English.

I'll bring the hackey-sack!

Zebras? That's silly.

If anything, giraffes have more of a pizza color to them.

i have no idea. my sister apparently taught her montessori kindergartners that the word for zebra was pizza and vice versa.

A-*******-men.

Liberal yuppies who send their kids to Montessori schools would be better off just dropping them off at the park and giving them 10 dollars. You can still basically do whatever you want and "learn creatively" but you'll save a lot of money.

...sister?

totally agree. i laughed at some of her 'lesson plans'. i felt bad, but it was so ridiculous. it was like when my cousin (distant) came over and my parents got yelled at for scolding her for putting her hands in the mashed potatoes. she was apparently 'exploring' or something.

trade? i'm much prettier than she is, but i'm sure we have at least some of the same genes.

A trade?! WHY YES!

Hijinks will ensue since they won't be able to tell us apart!

They were always passing out their literature on my campus.