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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From yet another student essay:
“When I arrived to [sic] West Lake High School, my senses began to swirl in a world wind.”
The word “swirl” suggests that the student has heard the phrase “swirl in a whirlwind” but has never seen it. A “world wind,” of course, would be a wind that shakes your world.
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It’s a good one, though it has been noted before). I thought the rationale, explicated by a perpetrator, in the post David Bird uncovered here , was especially good.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Ah—my student wrote it as two words, which probably explains why I didn’t get any Google hits. Love the idea of a “worldwind romance.”
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