My favorite story about the Modern Language Association convention was in an
article in the New York Times many years ago. I no longer have
the citation, but I copied down the relevant bit:
Posted on a convention announcement board is an agitated adolescent
scrawl:
Did your parents force you to come to MLA? Are you going stir-crazy, like me? Call if you are age 18 and just want someone normal to go sightseeing with!!Red-inked below, in a firm professorial hand:
Watch punctuation. Vary sentence structure. Try not to end sentences in prepositions.Posted by Bill Poser at December 28, 2004 12:13 AM