Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Teaching Dr. Faustus this week. Love this edgy, heavy metal play!
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What's more cringe?
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This gave me a lot of joy.
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Cooking up new material for my Survey of English Lit course
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My rhetorical device shorts are not doing anything like the numbers my historical slang series did, but I'm proud of this work and I enjoy it and I'm going to keep doing it.
Also, it's helping me remember also those crazy Greek words. after doing two shorts on it, I will never forget what anadiplosis is. Anadiplosis is what I am doing right now.
(Also, why does the Shorts Algorithm™ always pick the most unflattering frame to use as the thumb?)
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New video! Hear me get a little snarky, but in a well-intended way. I got your back!
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coming soon:
An end-of-semester special: 7 Essay Openers to Avoid Like the Plague
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If you're new to the channel, check out my fun little video on "Herbos"-- it discusses linguistic models of semantic shifts as well as pop culture.
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to announce 1) our Wordle rematch with @WhySuda and 2) the soon-to-be released special event video, "How to Use ChatGPT to Write WITHOUT Cheating!"
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For those unconvinced by the association of ersatz's usage in English with WWII, here's the google ngram. It's not a perfect instrument, but this is a pretty clear bump
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