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Graduation is not cancelled Students still graduate. It is the ceremony that gets cancelled.
My father went back to college on the GI bill. He had promised himself that he would never âstand formationâ again after he got out of the Air Force. The S.O.B. head of the college refused to give my father his diploma because he did not attend the ceremony.
Father didnât care. What was he going to do with that piece of paper?
A few years later, the successor noticed the slight and personally delivered the diploma with an apology for the delay.
Pardon me while I indulge a pet peeve. The convention for word endings in English is to use a double consonant to indicate that the preceding vowel is short rather than long. For example, you can kÄ«te a check or kÇt out an expedition, but the past tenses are kÄ«ted (1 âtâ) and kÇtted (2 "t"s). Someone who Ć«ses is Ć«sing (1 âsâ), something that goes thÇd is thÇdding (2 "d"s). And so on. So, in this case, is âcancÄledâ pronounced as if it rhymes with âconcÄaledâ? Because thatâs the way it looks to me. Would you write that somebody had âexcÄledâ at a task (which would apparently make them âexcÄlentâ)? I sure hope not. Youâd have no hesitation referring to a âcancÄllationâ. Why, then, eschew âcancÄlledâ? And donât even get me started on people who abĆ«se âbĆ«singâ.
Humanist 10 months ago
Does he mean due to protests our graduation was delayed ?
Perkycat 10 months ago
Lots of different things go on at Walmart!
kaffekup 10 months ago
âBut as long as youâre here, we do have an opening as a greeter. You can put your new education to good use!â
mistercatworks 10 months ago
Graduation is not cancelled Students still graduate. It is the ceremony that gets cancelled.
My father went back to college on the GI bill. He had promised himself that he would never âstand formationâ again after he got out of the Air Force. The S.O.B. head of the college refused to give my father his diploma because he did not attend the ceremony.
Father didnât care. What was he going to do with that piece of paper?
A few years later, the successor noticed the slight and personally delivered the diploma with an apology for the delay.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 10 months ago
Pardon me while I indulge a pet peeve. The convention for word endings in English is to use a double consonant to indicate that the preceding vowel is short rather than long. For example, you can kÄ«te a check or kÇt out an expedition, but the past tenses are kÄ«ted (1 âtâ) and kÇtted (2 "t"s). Someone who Ć«ses is Ć«sing (1 âsâ), something that goes thÇd is thÇdding (2 "d"s). And so on. So, in this case, is âcancÄledâ pronounced as if it rhymes with âconcÄaledâ? Because thatâs the way it looks to me. Would you write that somebody had âexcÄledâ at a task (which would apparently make them âexcÄlentâ)? I sure hope not. Youâd have no hesitation referring to a âcancÄllationâ. Why, then, eschew âcancÄlledâ? And donât even get me started on people who abĆ«se âbĆ«singâ.
GaryCooper 10 months ago
They should be protesting Walmart.