Grammatical Errors or Sheer Genius?

Posted by StSean at 8:24 PM
Nov 152007


I teach English as a Second Language for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students – grammar & writing classes and reading & vocabulary classes. God love them, they try really hard to understand English, but with all the rule-breaking and twists and turns there are times I want to throttle an OED. Sometimes, though, I come across sentences that are unutterably beautiful and others that are slightly hysterical. Were they written in error or were my students touching the heart of the language?

Here are this week’s selections:

  • I transcended time to get off work.
  • I have a lot of excess cakes in the yard. (completely unlikely they’ve heard of let alone heard MacArthur Park, and yet, there it is.)
  • I do not tolerate my videophone’s talking with my friends.

    Awesome.
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