I Know What You Did Last Chat Thread

[FoolofaTook]

thanks. but i just found out that it's almost impossible to get certified for a radiologist with felonies. there are still some states that don't require certification, but that may change.

[yo soy el mejor]

you'd think the bourgeois son of professors would know what med school is and isn't.

[Elphenor]

i am the best

[FoolofaTook]

http://forums.netphoria.org/customav...tar25775_8.gif

[FoolofaTook]

sounds like you guys could use another absalomic coiffure post from yours truly

also i am the tallest on this board. deal with it.

[FoolofaTook]

my classmates are getting in on the fun. starting to make little snide comments about stealing and giving me subtle sneers.

god i am such a badass!

[FoolofaTook]

sitting in my dad's office alone working on homework. drinking black coffee so i let out a rancid fart. a minute later my dad returns with two of his students (females). lol it was pretty visceral.


SOMEBODY TALK TO ME

[Elphenor]

had a bitch of a time finishing, printing, and turning in an essay last couple days

I ran out of money at just the wrong time, found myself scrounging quarters to pay for printing

always wait until the last minute

[Elphenor]

Then we peer reviewed which was awkward because I felt like these papers were really bad

Just terrible

And that means either I take a lot more pride in what I sweated over or my paper too is trash

[run2pee]

No, it’s not just you

Ppl are dummies about writing

Almost every time i had to “peer review” something it was like...hoooooooooly shit y’all are some IMBECILESWINE

[smashingjj]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

sitting in my dad

Come on man you said you'd stop it

[FoolofaTook]

that's not fair! my fatherfucking nature just won't be repressed.

anyways i just took (CHLAMYDIA!!) the diagnostic test for my grammar class. turns out i SUCK ASS at english.

[Elphenor]

metal?

[Elphenor]

did this today

[slunken]

I finally started playing Magic: The Gathering again, after 20 years.

The marketing is really confusing and the game has evolved, but once you crack those codes it's actually easier (and cheaper) to immediately begin playing now than it was decades ago.

[Elphenor]

MTG was fun the couple times I played but idk if I'm ready to make the leap into going to Friday night Magic and such

[Elphenor]

highest grade in the class on my first paper back in school

an A

the median score was a 68%, so I was right that the papers I peer reviewed were shit

I feel vindicated, and that I've made the right choice

[Elphenor]

I don't have to be smart to be top of class, just smarter than these dumb motherfuckers

professor notes: "this is a well written paper, careful not to resort to name calling"

the use of the word "barbaric" cost me 5 points

[redbreegull]

what was the paper on

[redbreegull]

barbarians?

[Elphenor]

single payer healthcare lul

[Disco King]

I can't imagine using the term "barbaric" in that context without it betraying an academic tone.

I generally try to use as little emotive or value-laden language as possible. Also, very little figurative speech or rhetoric. I kind of subscribe to the Orwell position of making writing as simple, clear, and transparent as possible.

I also resist the kind of academic jargon that's become de rigueur in some fields, that seem to be more about signalling the writer's membership in the club than actually conveying any real information. I want to hurl every time I see phrases like "negotiating discourses" in a sociology text.

[Disco King]

I think that's part of why I've really enjoyed writing styles in analytic philosophy, and have adapted a similar style regardless of what course I'm submitting a paper for. Analytic philosophers tend to be light on jargon, and every time they introduce new jargon for the sake of expediency, they define what the fuck they're talking about before they go on to use it.

Despite liking social sciences, a lot of the writing in it seems to be guilty of falling on buzzwords without a clear sense of what is meant. And then continental philosophy is just rife with this, with people making up complex terms without once explaining what they are supposed to mean. "Oh look, I'm Heidegger, I'm writing an entire book on Dasein while being extremely vague about what that even means; pat me on the back for how smart and hard to understand I am."

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I can't imagine using the term "barbaric" in that context without it betraying an academic tone.

I generally try to use as little emotive or value-laden language as possible. Also, very little figurative speech or rhetoric. I kind of subscribe to the Orwell position of making writing as simple, clear, and transparent as possible.

I also resist the kind of academic jargon that's become de rigueur in some fields, that seem to be more about signalling the writer's membership in the club than actually conveying any real information. I want to hurl every time I see phrases like "negotiating discourses" in a sociology text.

Yeah, good academic writing is generally very stoic and avoids value qualifying, charged language, etc.

But I would say literally everything we do or say is rhetoric. Rhetoric is just the art communicating effectively

[Elphenor]

fair enough but it was a pathos argument in the context I used it

it was meant to be emotional, the paper asked for (1) appeal to emotion argument

I'm not crying over 5 points

[redbreegull]

what's your guyses fav rhetorical technique?

I like logos obviously

[yo soy el mejor]

now we gotta "listen" for 2 years to elph tell us how much smarter he is than kids at his community college...

[yo soy el mejor]

my work is having a luncheon next month and frikkin silver sponsorship (a table for 10 and your name on shit) is $25,000! that's not even the highest...i think a title sponsorship is 95K.

it kills me that for what one dude pays for a table of 10 for one afternoon i could finish paying for college.

[Disco King]

That luncheon better be damn unforgettable.

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

what's your guyses fav rhetorical technique?

I like logos obviously

There is only logos