You Know You're an English Nerd When...
I've been having a lot of these experiences lately.
6) When what a student says reminds you of a line from yet another Shakespeare play.
5) When your break time teacher's lounge discussion includes the sentence, "Now that's dramatic irony!"
4)When you watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory purely for the Merchant of Venice references (and didn't watch the right parts!)
3) When your 9-year-old nephew asks you about a baserunner getting thrown out by a mile, and you launch into a 5 minute explanation of hyperbole.
2) When you can't fall asleep at night, and you design a Shakespeare course in your head - including which plays you would teach and the educational rationale for adding a Shakespeare course to an already-full curriculum.
1) You receive not one, but TWO daily tear-off English usage calendars for Christmas - and you keep both on your desk.
If you have any to add to the list, let me know.
posted by KBush @ 3:37 PM
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6 Comments:
I once heard Joe Carter say that a baserunner was "literally out by a mile" during a Cub broadcast on WGN. He may have been the worst broadcaster ever as far as saying things that made no sense go (well, maybe with the exception of Harry Caray once he went senile and the Sox wised up and sent him up north).
Here's one an English nerd will appreciate: I was at a conference at Hope College (not sponsored by Hope) and the president of the organization said "I know some of you had trouble finding your way around last year so this year we have life sized maps posted in all of the buildings."
your brother walks into the room where you are hanging out with a friend and says "I have a grammar question" and you both perk up.
You take photos of odd uses of punctuation with your cell phone.
This doesn't really count, but it probably shows that I have been spending way too much time on the internet...
I was driving by the drive-thru liquor store (which is no longer drive-thru) in downtown Ann Arbor. I saw a neon open sign in the window, and below it another neon sign that read "ATM". The first thought that popped into my head was: "open at the moment? huh?". I hope that wasn't the intended meaning, because it would be pretty poor business practice.
Of the course of three weeks (and counting) you exchange a whopping 27 e-mails with various members of your family about the usage of a single word in the annual Christmas missive (which has been mailed, though the debate is far from cleared up!) culminating in a defiant response which contained the phrase "grammatical fascist."
Sorry, that should have read "Over the course of..."
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