Yup, truthly. That is a word a student of mine used in a paper. I assume it is somehow related to "truthiness," the word Stephen Colbert coined which eventually made it into Webster's. Well, truthly it has been too long since I have posted, so let's get to the rest of the fun. As always, these sentences are from student work, and my comments are in ( ).
- As teenagers self a steam is always tricky. (Sure it is; you don't want to get burned.)
- When he is on the merge of dying...
- (Macbeth) worried that Banquo would get suspension of his reign.
- Macbeth hires three murders to kill Banquo.
- The only reason to kill Duncan is Macbeth's ambition for the throne due to ambition. (Department of Redundancy Department.)
- Macbeth murdered King Duncan in a cowardly was.
- Lady Macbeth is a women.
- Lady Macbeth becomes more physical and involved with her plans of becoming queen. (I am not sure how to take that.)
- Lady Macbeth wants to get rid of her feminine weakness because she believes it is weak. (Department of Redundancy Department.)
- Iago is... giving Othello the oppression that he cares for him.
- Desdemona and Emilia are similar and different in different ways. (That's deep?)
- ... a woman moving, trying to get out of the confinds of the wallpaper.
- Iago calls his wife names such as foolish and wrench. (I think you mean wench. I think.)
- Social media: killer of social stills. (And writing skills, apparently.)
- People are more judged mental to others over social media.
- ... the freedmen enjoys all of lives offerings.
- This shows how cowardice Peyton Farquhar is.
- She found console in writing.
- He portrays (the rich) as vacant and carless.
- (She) milks cows and sows. (No, she sews. She does not milk pigs.)
- So really if everyone started being reasonable human beings this could all be avoided. (But then the stories would be boring.)
Happy spring!
J
In Javascript (programming language ubiquitous on the web) there is a word "truthy" which is often used to describe a variable that evaluates to true when in a boolean context. This is born out of the fact that javascript isn't a strongly typed language so a variable could represent anything and when you ask it whether it is a boolean unless it explicitly says "true" or '1' or some obvious cases you have no idea whether it should be true or not, so it is said to be true unless there is some definition of "falsy" (the juxtaposed word) for the variable that maches.
ReplyDelete1. I understood less than half of that. 2. I am quite sure my student was not accidentally importing Javascript into his essay. Quite sure.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
Delete