La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 09, 2024

Does he mean due to protests our graduation was delayed ?

Lots of different things go on at Walmart!

“But as long as you’re here, we do have an opening as a greeter. You can put your new education to good use!”

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 “stand formation” 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 didn’t 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 kīte a check or kǐt out an expedition, but the past tenses are kīted (1 “t”) and kǐtted (2 "t"s). Someone who ūses is ūsing (1 “s”), something that goes thǔd is thǔdding (2 "d"s). And so on. So, in this case, is “cancēled” pronounced as if it rhymes with “concēaled”? Because that’s the way it looks to me. Would you write that somebody had “excēled” at a task (which would apparently make them “excēlent”)? I sure hope not. You’d have no hesitation referring to a “cancěllation”. Why, then, eschew “cancělled”? And don’t even get me started on people who abūse “būsing”.

They should be protesting Walmart.