Rachel Kaufman, freelance writer

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Posts Tagged ‘egregious grammar errors’

On alma maters (matri? almae matres? HELP)

By Rachel • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Flickr: cassetteject (Note: I originally was going to post this on Scrapple Spring Rolls, but got so tied up in the language issues that I thought it might fit here.) I graduated 6 months ago. (More than that, actually, but let’s go with the figure of 6.)So why does my school have no official record [...]



LOLcat goes mainstream

By Rachel • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

A coworker pointed me in the direction of this Houston Chronicle piece about LOLcats. Yes, for real. It’s hard to be a twenty-something, cutting-edge Internet hipster and read about cutting-edge hip things written by People Who Just Don’t Get It, but Dwight Silverman is not one of those people. I remember when my sister and [...]



The Internet murdered the term paper.

By Rachel • Mar 27th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

The term paper has been murdered by the Internet. Right? Jason Johnson in Sunday’s Washington Post wrote on this topic; explaining how he was rewarded at work for putting his name on someone else’s writing. “It was an open secret that my entire report, written “by Jason Johnson,” had been composed by others and that [...]