Thursday, October 4, 2012

...punctuation...

I was teaching a group of Juniors about some punctuation rules in preparation for the ACT English test.  It went a little something like this:

Me:  Who can tell me what a colon is?  And don't tell me about your body...

Students give a little chuckle.

Student 1:  I hate when people spell cologne like colon.

Me:  Yeah, that is unfortunate.

Student 2:  I know how to spell cologne!  (He did not say the letters, but changed the pronunciation.)  CO-LOG-NE!

Me:  Good...

Student 1:  Yeah, like I hate it when people say things like, Your colon smells really nice today!

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