Take that, teacher! Screw you, sir!

[MyBareTorso]

The only English teacher I ever think about these days is the very pretty, wonderfully pneumatic Miss [name redacted to protect her identity...and mine!]...and to say any more would contravene Literotica's very strict age related rules. I will say though, it was just thinking and not doing!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Yeah. I enjoy seeing "improper" sentences in books by well respected authors.

From Cat Valente's latest, discussing a star system several thousand light years away:

*As an American, I refuse to use the term "Oxford" comma.

 

[Bramblethorn]

My own English teachers were all lovely, but I know one aspiring novelist who's motivated primarily by spite against a high-school teacher of fifty-odd years ago.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

My English teacher actually got me to write my first ever piece of slash fiction - so my GCSE coursework folder includes 500 words of iambic pentameter of Antonio pining after Bassanio at the end of Merchant of Venice, with a fair bit of fantasising. She'd pointed us at a book on Elizabethan slang, which I drew heavily from.

She was good at explaining all the filth in the books we did. Well, Shakespeare and Mayor of Casterbridge - there wasn't any in Lord of the Flies or war poetry...

She'd probably be quite impressed by a few of my stories, and think others needed better editing, but I'm not getting in touch!

 

[AG31]

I take pleasure in reading good authors' wllingness to start sentences with "and" to leave out subjects, and... and... But the one thing I find myself bumping into is the use of "them" instead of "they" (senior moment... can't remember the names of the types of pronouns) in sentences like "the younger crowd was louder than them." I know it sounds impossibly stilted to say "than they," but in my head I always correct it. Sometimes adding "were," to give my compulsive brain a better reason for "they."

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

The only English teacher I remember used to encourage me to write. I was too self-conscious to take her advice. While I'm sure she wouldn't ding me too hard for starting sentences with a conjunction and that she wouldn't approve of what I'm currently writing(could be wrong here, she was pretty liberal), I know she'd be ecstatic that I was actually writing.

 

[NotWise]

My school teachers--English and otherwise--were all well-intended but bound to a curriculum they didn't invent. Some of them worked it well. Some of them, not so much.

 

[Ian_Snow]

This is not what I was expecting this thread to be by the title, but I am delighted nonetheless.