Kaiser Wrote:

roberth Wrote:

Kaiser Wrote:

roberth Wrote:and you never did it to your teachers?? lol



If they were anywhere near as patronising as my teachers were, i expect he was glad of the chance to one-up the bastards

oh a million times, specially on math, but i made it humiliating for them and hilarious for my fellow classmates xD

but the way it looks like, its like he stated the mistake in a uber nerd kinda way, since most of people won't realize it or won't care about it...

idk maybe im the one being a douchebag here lol :P

i can see where your comnig from, but, remember, with nerds its the best they can get

touché

lol I hate really nerdy nerds cause they're so nerdily nerdy!!!!

Slushba132 Wrote:the english teacher found an error on our test this year...
he ripped up the test booklet right in front of us he was so mad

that's a nerdy thing to do,

I often found big errors, spelling errors, grammar errors, and the like in books and in presentations.  I'll list a few I can remember off the top of my head.

I walked into out assembly that talked about our graduation, and saw in HUGE letters on their 60 foot presentation slide, "Welcome Oak Mnt High school".  I'll bet I was the only one who knew that it was supposed to be Mtn and not Mnt (which is still wrong, as it should be Mt) if saying mountain instead of mount... and yet no one caught it (or more likely no one cared).

When I was 12 years old, my art teacher was showing off some of her paintings that she has sold over the years, and got to one in which it had a woman under a tree, reading, with a huge clock taking up the whole background, and I noticed that one of the Roman numerals on the clock was IV instead of IIII.  It isn't often noticed, but the way those clocks are made, the four is supposed to be IIII, and not IV.  I mentioned the mistake in the middle of class, and got nothing but condescending looks, and an argument out of my teacher.  I was 12 and knew of this trivia.  IMO, that is a lot more esoteric and probably less likely to be noticed than omission vs emission.

Heck, I even once found a glaring mistake in the Princeton book of studying for the SAT, which is considered one of the absolute authorities on SAT studying.  One of the questions asked to choose the correct word to complete the sentence so that it was grammatically correct.  Basically, it had a linking verb, and all 4 choices were in the objective case.  Therefore ALL of the answers were wrong, and yet no one seemed to notice this...?

Lastly, I remember seeing in a book once "Then again, whoever heard of a talking tree?"  It drives me nuts when people combine words incorrectly!  It is "who ever" since who is the noun and ever is an adverb. Combining them together means they become one noun, and now the sentence is a fragment.  

Really, I have always been a stickler for correct grammar (even brought it up in many futile chatroom corrections XD), historical accuracy, and any other corrections that seem glaring to me.  IMO, "omission" vs "emission" is extremely obvious, and I can't see why it'd actually received NATIONAL attention.  Was it really that slow of a news day all across the nation?  Or is the entire nation completely befuddled when it comes to which vowel to use and when?  People are stupid; get used to it.

And the Princeton studying guide for the SATs is nationally accepted as one of the authorities on SAT study guides... and yet it has an obvious mistake that was missed by countless students using it to study as well as the editors and everyone else.  IMO, it probably should have been corrected very soon, since such a reputable school put its name on this old study guide.  And yet no one seems to care?  It still bothers me...