This made my day!! Well played, Harvard - well played...😎
This made my day!! Well played, Harvard - well played...😎
She worked in professional wrestling.
I love this!!
This is not a Harvard response. It’s a grad student at MIT having fun. It’s hilarious. But it is not an official response.
This is the reply I was looking for! There was a flood of “they should answer with corrections” posts the other day so my “incorrect post” alert was high. The OP is now flagged as an engagement farmer for me.
I like to think that all depths will now hire grammar specialists. Good piece of job creation.
Thanks for the fact check--I retweeted too soon
I wondered where it came from.
From where it came?
From whence it came
Sorry. That is what I thought I typed.
Lol
Age
;)
I know.
Ofc MIT… this time a hack that didn’t involve hoisting a plastic cow (or a police car) onto the top of the dome :)
Ma’am, please don’t come here and yuck my yum.
Sucking slurry from the pink slime nozzle: "Hey, don't judge me"
I wish it was tho lol 😝
Who posted this where?
Love this!
Why do people just lie, and obviously lie? The writer is a grad student at MIT. His name is Daniel Luo. As an aside he’s the best theorist in some time, and is uncomfortably brilliant. Go check out his work.
Satire.
Wow, it’s Nicholas Decker! I didn’t recognize you without the cat ears.
Proof that it wasn’t written by her.
This cabinet are literally the stupidest people I have ever seen.
Excellent! Major burn 🔥
IT IS NO REAL!!!
Wishful thinking 🤔
Linda McMahon is totally unqualified, but this is unsubstantive.
So much red ink.
😂😂😂
When an unqualified uneducated incompetent person runs anything they screw it up!
Why refuse Her?
Harvard WILL cut a bitch! 🤣
Clearly written by someone they would call a DEI hire.
Nah, clearly a white frat bro
scratching my head wondering how “This is like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation…” is an incomplete sentence.
Because it’s a dependent clause of the preceding sentence.
In the sentence in question—and, yes, it is a sentence—“this” is a demonstrative pronoun, referring to the previously stated idea. Not including the antecedent “is an error of formality, not correctness.” (Garner’s Modern American Usage, p.260, 3e)
What is “this” referring to?
This is the biggest question people are failing to grasp about why this is an incomplete sentence
This [statement] is incorrect. The sentence is complete. Its issue is a matter of formality, not correctness. Review the entry for deictic terms in Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage, 3rd edition.
It wasn’t bad navigation that sunk the Titanic, it was the iceberg and the construction.
It doesn’t state what is like hiring the captain of the titanic. It’s half a metaphor.
Half a simile, rather than a metaphor
It's not an incomplete sentence, though.
Not in the grade school sense but when writing at the college level, any sentence that expresses half a thought is incomplete.
I feel bad defending her - it is a horribly-written letter and she is an awful person - but the thought expressed is surely complete, given that the subject is clearly identified in the previous sentence.
And that’s fine in casual writing but academic writing is much more nitpickey about stuff like that.
I think the biggest problem with this sentence is that it doesn't explain what's wrong with the captain of the Titanic teaching to future captains. I'm sure he knew well his job and it would be great for a future captain to know more about an incident from the perspective of a captain.
I'm absolutely not defending the content - which is childish and idiotic - but this still does not make it an incomplete sentence, in academic or any other writing.
Well, I had better give my PhD back, then.
This is a weird thing to get super defensive about. I don’t have a PhD but I teach college students and my university style guide would suggest that if a sentence doesn’t express a complete thought it’s an incomplete sentence.
Key point: “style guide”. Style guides express a preferred way of writing but are not on the same level as grammatical rules. Your university and the AP disagree on what constitutes a complete sentence. Same thing as whether baptists or lutherans teach “true Christianity.”
@mssmartypants60.bsky.social, this brought a laugh thinking about legal proofreading and style guides. i don’t even remember why i’m amused. and that makes me laugh more. i think it had something to do with marketing?
It’s not just the university I work at. It’s also standard APA format. owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_....
Would you agree that the sentence starting with „Yet“ is grammatically correct, though? (Not trying to divert the discussion, but within this thread, you seem the best person to answer my question. I’m a non-native speaker of English who’s never lived in an English-speaking country.)
It’s about context. Casually, conversationally, that’s absolutely correct. In academic writing, which is the perspective Harvard is coming from, it’s more correct to have a complete idea in one sentence as opposed to an idea spread across two sentences connected by a clause.
Sorry. Just felt you were being a bit patronising.
That wasn’t my intent.
It's also a stupid sentence because the reason to not hire the captain of the Titanic is that the ship sank, but by that time the captain was dead anyway.
I guess presumably the captain of the titanic should’ve avoided the iceberg.
Yes, but the original author's intended simile was that only an idiot would hire that captain after the events on the Titanic, that is, after the captain died.
Oh ya, that’s a good point. Lol.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Maybe she got one of her wrastlers to write the illiterate letter.
tRump has the most ignorant, corrupt evil administration ever.
smack that bitch!
Further proof that everyone in the w.h. administration are IDIOTS
You gotto to love the posting. Idiots and unqualified individuals in the White House .
Oh, I get it now. These are lawyers and other powerful figures whose parents have bought them credentials that aren't reflective of their understanding of the law or basic English. No notes.
So there are two parties: Dems and stupids. Got it.
Poor derpy! He HAD to come online and demonstrate what a brainless twerp he is -- just HAD to! Sad.
Telling Harvard how they need to run their university is stupid indeed. I am not sure that you need to be a Dem to see it though.
The horror of the CAPS!
Trump does love his uneducated minions.
Well Linda seems illiterate and illogical. Whoops
Well, she is a wrestler after all 💪🏽💪🏽😂😂!
christ you're fucking stupid
no, she isn't, and she never was.
That’s outstanding. 👏👏
That's pretty fucking epic. It's a horribly written letter by a person who's obviously poorly educated.
Sure doesn't defend ending our education department!
Then post a fucking source. How stupid are all of you? Big accounts keep posting this shit with no sources, and when I look online I see nothing but social media posts. You're all acting like your MAGA aunt on Facebook. Be better.
Oh this is great….😂
The power of the (red) pen is greater than the sword.
omg, underrated post (dammit, I almost typed "tweet!" - Father forgive me for I know not what I did just did. **Sigh** But anyways, LOVE this!
lol. You win today’s interweb award.
Thank you, thank you very much.
LMAO
Every time I see her I think of her creepy pardoned husband.🤮
We know she didnt write this because: 1. not one mention of hitting someone with a folding chair 2. she did not sign it "if you smell, what the A1, is, cooking"
Been laughing for half an hour. Help!
🤣
Love this!
Fake, apparently
Your talking points are old and tired, please ask your daddy for new ones.
Fake, apparently www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...
What are you talking about
Incomplete sentence.
It is fake, apparently period
I didn't address its veracity. I just said your sentence was incomplete. You responded with another incomplete sentence. You're not very good at this, are you?
Enlighten me as to its incompleteness.
Here: "It is fake, apparently period"
It is fake comma apparently period
Still wrong. You could have just quoted me.
... you REALLY aren't any good at this, are you?
For the beginners in the audience, it should read: It is fake, apparently, period.
Or, if you're working with a word limit, you could try: It's fake. Period.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"incomplete sentence" is an incomplete sentence
I hate it when people explain my jokes.
"Hey did you notice you said this thing in a different context than the other guy said the same thing?" YES. DICKHEAD.
I think that calls for another pizza penalty. He owes you one
He's getting a Hawaiian but I'll let the apprentice make it.
So you’re punishing him by SERVING him a pizza?? Ah I see what you’re doing there www.bbc.com/news/article...
My staff know her. I don't. I do pick my own mushrooms, but I won't sell them. One mistake ... One too many. Bacon, eggs, mushrooms, sourdough toast - yes please.
🙄
😂🤣😂🤣😂🙌🙌🙌
Dont you just hate it when the teacher corrects you with the red marker. That shit still gives me a nightmare...
Harvard did not do this. Aren’t there enough lies from the other side?
What lies, do you believe?
You want me to list the lies of MAGA? That could take a very long time…
It almost sounds like trump wrote part of the letter. Her office staff should have been able to correct some of those grammatical errors. If you're going to write a letter like this, you would think that name calling & emotion would be irrelevant and unnecessary.
It sounds like a trump dictation that was sent to Mc Mahon for signature.
I’m certain he penned most of it. Stylistically (as IF), it is 100% Trumpian.
There is no evidence that Harvard actually did this.
If it was Harvard they would have allowed ‘systemic’🤔
When your only qualification is loyalty…
Hard to disagree…but, comes off as elitist….
Aanndd this is why I don't pretend to be something I'm not
Like how we should stop pretending this is Harvard. It's just some dude on X named Daniel who originally posted this.
Not sure if this really changes things. The U.S. Education Secretary should really be capable of writing a grammatically correct letter, especially if they’re sharing it publicly with the whole world.
It changes things because the bogus claim "Harvard claps back at the SoE" got a whole lot more attention than it would have gotten if it were accurately labeled "Some random dude on the nazi site claps back at the SoE".
Sure, they should know grammar, but that doesn't make lying on the internet ok, does it? So yes, it changes things. OP should have made a post saying some guy named Daniel posted this, not Harvard posted this.
Fair enough
Exactly. Let's not sink to the alt-right's lows of misinformation. Even if it means less internet points. Instead, we should share Harvard's actual response to this letter if/when one is made, and not miss-caption the fake one. But it won't be as memey, so it probably won't get the spread.
It’s just insane that the education secretary is pressuring the university with arguably the best law school in the country to do something that university says is unconstitutional. The republicans in congress are just letting it happen. WTF?!
Who actually cares if this is real or not? GtFO
EPIC
So much RED! 😂🤣😂
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing with us all. 🙌🏼🤣
I'm not even bothering to read her drivel. The corrections however are entertaining. Well played Harvard. We all should respond to their idiocy like this. Passive aggressive & fight.
Harvard didn’t actually do this though.
Who cares. Humor is lost on some of you.
All of us should care. If we’re comfortable spreading misinformation because it fits what we believe, we’re no better than the MAGA cult. The thing is, the edits are very funny! And they’re still funny even if you attribute them to some internet rando instead of Harvard. The lie adds no value.
Seriously calm down. No one cares where it allegedly came from. That's the joke. Do you go after memes and cartoons as well? Refuckinglax.
I don’t care where it came from either. But I do care that so many people are quick to believe such an obvious lie and regurgitate it as fact. If we’re going to mock Linda McMahon’s incompetence—which we absolutely should—we should also think critically. Otherwise we’re just MAGA but liberal.
It's not that big of a deal Ryan. There's much bigger important things to stress over & you doubling, tripling down on this is weird.
It's truthy, Ryan. It feels true in my gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up.
He can also look up that there is a satire meme that started the Harvard was doing the grading since he's so about facts. I bet he writes a complaint to SNL at 12:01 every Sunday.
Micro aggression for the win.
Yaaaaess! They didn't know ACA is Obamacare. We can run circles around them.
Good god ....for a minute I thought whoever wrote this must be some wrestlers wife! Thank god she's not been appointed as Secretary of Education by some idiot!
Genius resistance!
I was amused by the simile, "this is like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation to future captains of the sea". Obviously "of the sea" is unnecessary and can be assumed. However, as many people are aware, Edward Smith went down with his ship and was therefore not available for hire.
🤣🤣
Savage!
She probably doesn’t know what the corrections mean.
She doesn’t
😅
Uneducated Linda McMahon, does not know what Artificial Intelligence is and little else, this is how Tramp destroys every agency in America.
He’s finally found what he’s really good at
She needs some A 1 education Or is it AI?
I thought it was AL? As in Al Bundy will give you answers
Linda McMahon did not write that letter, ChatGPT did.
Chatgpt would have done a better job.
Excellent reaction to what appears to clearly be an attempt by a very poor “writer” who obviously is quite incapable of using English to express their “hissy fit” .
Ivy League level trolling!
Before wrestling person Linda with NO experience in education… was confirmed by MAGA GOP know-nothing Senators, I read that she “thought” she had a B.A. but did not 😬
FYI: She had no B.A. in Education when she said she did. A wealthy, ignorant person who was nominated by a traitor felon conman and confirmed by stupid Senators for the important job (of dismantling the Dept. Of Education) 😡 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
😳
A B.A. in BS more likely. 😏
Yasssss
Lmao
Hi Mary
😂😂😂 love this!
Real Teachers. What grade does she get for this?
Reminds me a goofball grad teacher who asked everyone on the 1st day to tell a little about yourself. He handed this back week 2, graded. 75% of the class quit. I stayed, I was planning on graduating ASAP. I stuck it out
😂 love the corrections!
Don’t forget to bring the A1 steak sauce to school 😵💫😮💨😬
😂😂
No one cares, she's going to end public education as we know it
Really funny that some people think the government has "a sacred responsibility to be ... important" Asshats and clowns all-the-way-down.
Pfffffft.
Awkward
👏👏👏
Typical Trumpanzee lacking basic education that most of us learn by the time we’re 12.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻good for Harvard
Trump is a moron and never hires smart people that would make him look bad. Just imagine how stupid this woman is.
As a teacher, I am so here for this level of trolling!!! 😂
Maybe she used “A One” to compose it.
Mmm. . .A-1. If I only had a cheap, well-done steak to slather it on.
I once did that to my ex-husbands’s new wife. I can’t abide by lectures from strangers or bad spellers!
We live in an age of soulless, mental midgets who despise intelligence, empathy and expertise and who are now, “loudly and proudly,” in charge of our government. What could possibly go wrong?
THIS IS FOR REAL? I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE!
Real, yes. From Harvard, no.
100% real life.
This is not a Harvard response. This is a person bored online.
I’m referring to McMahon’s letter.
100% not from anyone at Harvard.
it's not real
Good thing they used a pen. Looks like this task may have required more than five (5) pencils (and that's no longer allowed).
Donnie 2 dolls has been added to the Signal chat.
Only commies allow citizens to have more than 5 pencils.
🤣😅😂👍🏻
Back in the 70s they used to say you could tell the rank of PLA officers by how many pens they had. (There were no rank badges on Mao suits)
Oh, see I was reading it differently. Not so much that you're limited to 5 pencils, but that what it used to cost to get 250 pencils will now only get you 5.
Hmm? Seems like she's pleading a case on behalf of someone whose parents are 47 and current spouse.
Teach them!! Woo.
If you are going to pretend to be the Secretary of the Department of Education, it is best to remember MLA citation and format, especially when sending a letter to the oldest institute of education in the US, older than the nation by 140 years.
I simply can’t help myself…Harvard has their own style guide of course…it appears to be a hybrid of MLA and Chicago. How special. Okay…I’ll show myself out. 😞
lol, that’s amazing Carlos. I’m required to use APA and apparently that’s very unsophisticated it seems
I figured they used Chicago like every other US research institution…but not good enough for Harvard I guess? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you.
😆
Link? Because I'm only seeing it on other people's social media
www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...
"..., according to a few posts made to X with a picture of the marked-up three pages."
The corrections are done by Grok
That is great. 👏🏻👏🏻
A proud graduate of Trump University.
No way she wrote this.
Doesn’t it sound exactly like trump’s posts, including the random capitalization? I wonder if miller is the WH “ghost writer”.
Way to go!!!
Harvard is a wonderful university with the most accomplished students, faculty and alumni. The graduates of Harvard have made tremendous contributions in the study of medicine, law, arts, humanities, history and many other worthwhile disciplines. Linda McMahon is a circus clown! 🤡
Was it baisted with a1
Yes a lady whose head was banging around a few times we expected this.
Secretary of education lol. I think she did as well as I would expect Linda McMahon to do when writing a letter to Harvard. Exactly that well.
I mean, I get it, but if you're going to show your ignorance with drivel like this, my holy crap, doesn't she have a staff? Someone who could have proof read the final product before firing it off to a prestigious university? Oh, #MAGAts are idiots, you say? Can confirm.
They can only hire trump loyalists. Trump loyalists are idiots. The person who could have proofread it for her didn’t get the job. There is also an element of not being smart enough to understand what you are sending to Harvard is embarrassing. Should be embarrassing, anyway.
You would think she'd hire an assistant to help write these letters, but apparently not.
Great to run into you here, Folco! I retired a few months ago and also deleted my Twitter account so I didn't think we'd ever cross paths again. :-)
Hey!!! Congratulations on your retirement!
Her assistant is the Fabulous Moolah
She must have used A1.
I’m betting she did use an assistant for writing help but you know the array of choices in McMahon’s office from which to choose had to be “slim pickins”. It must be hard to find someone with knowledge of sentence structure to blindly obey orders to write a scathingly stupid letter to Harvard. Lol.
Our maybe ask the steak sauce machine to write it for her!
You’d think she’d just throw a metal folding chair and pile drive her elbow into Harvard.
She has no idea how ignorant she is. She probably licked the envelope herself and smiled smugly.
She did I'm sure. A little Whyte maga who isn't qualified and goose steps to her every command.
She had an assistant of sorts. It’s pretty clear that parts of the letter, if not the whole damn thing, were dictated by Trump.
Why would she? People full of their own self-importance and sense of superiority don't look for assistance.
Or put it in ChatA1 to clean up!
Yeah, no, that was written by the best intern she could get, THEN approved by her. Also, the captain of the Titanic was, famously, not actually responsible for any part of the tragedy. Capitalist greed was. Too bad she’s not educated enough to know that.
Lol I’m sure it was written by a dumb assistant know-it-all. 😂 There is no way she’s doing actual work.
Assistant or not, it’s a reflection on her incompetence either to write a professional letter or rely on qualified staff. Professional offices invariably require a second set of eyes to eliminate blunders in documents. This letter is the work of an amateur in both content and form.
Agreed 1,000%! We’re not talking about a competent government with qualified staff.
You don’t think she had A1 write it for her?
😂😂😂
Fair point. I'm sure the job interview had few questions on their written communications skills.
There was never an interview none needed with this administration
Knowing Trump I'm sure it was more of an oral interview🤢
It reads like Trump’s tweets. Random acts of capitalization and senseless sentence structure. He surely penned half of it.
Looks like it was written with the help of AI, Harvard even circled the notorious AI-generated “—“ lol 😂
Yes a Harvard graduate at that. Tee hee.
Vile.
I'm just going to put this out there. When my first husband put himself in jail, he sent me a letter. I corrected his spelling, grammer & sentence structure in red ink. I then malied it back to him. I applaud Harvard.
How did Kelsey GrammEr get into this one? And Mali?
What?
Check spelling and typo
I guess I shouldn't have typed it last night with one hand on my wine glass. Thanks for noticing I'm human.
We've all been there.💙
Great smackdown, Harvard. The trump Secretary of Education should resign.
Hilarious!
Spicy!
That is some sweet sweet shade.
Hilarious but you know that's waving a red flag at the bull.
You can't stop facism just sitting on your ass.
...or by waving a red flag at it.
I love it
By any measure, the secretary of education got a failing grade. Her term paper is 👎
Well done!
Do you really think she wrote that letter? She signed it! Whoever wrote it and thought they were well equipped to do so has found out the naked truth! Childless Linda McMahon is no more interested in education than a WWE ringmaster. This was nothing but a political appointment.
She literally has a son and a daughter and several grandkids. Her son and daughter being heavily utilized in cringey WWE storyline after cringey WWE storyline, only like 3, maybe 4 of which had any good matches when her son Shane wrestled.
A real school marm.
Thank you for that! Seriously. Back when I took a look at Linda McMahon, there was much less info online on her than now. Nonetheless, she is a political appointee and that is that. She is "pie in the sky". RFKJr seemed to be promoting that heaviest... now, McMahon.
She's only the tip of the iceberg in this chilling fascist dictator sitcom
B Minus.
Way too generous...
Not is any course I ever took. Please!!
Love it 🥰
If irony had as many lives as a cat it would still be dead.
They didn't call out the split infinitive...
Do you mean, the infinitive was split??!!!
Tsplit infinitiff To quote Hyman Kaplan
No, no, don't get the fire extinguisher yet. Let that burn a while longer.
major league burn...going to leave a mark...
IT IS NOT REAL
That’s how it’s done!!
Brilliant and real treat for all professors/teachers out there marking end of term papers right now
That letter is embarrassing and not for the mistakes.
I'm loving this. This made my day. Now, I want to see other universities do the same and push back on these morons.
Oh that's so good. Another uneducated, classless bitch in the administration gets schooled. Literally 😊
Hi Linda
Hi Damian
Exactly! This administration may have 💩incompetent billionaires running the government but most may be as illiterate as the felon in the WH!
This is funny and accurate, but it will not be politically persuasive to those who we most need to convince - swing voters in GOP-held districts, who may not yet have fully understood the disastrous consequences of undermining US leadership in medical research.
Good Lord. Whoever wrote this should be fired immediately. Too much stupid here.
I love this. We don’t have to accept the Idiocracy.
And antisemitic to boot per the last line. The use of the word Democrat as an adjective was one of antisemite Joe McCarthy's favorite slurs by association and is believed by many to be a trope directed at Jews originating in the 30s. And now Stefanik brings it home to date.
THIS!!!!!!
Ironically, Linda McMahon has a long-standing relationship with Sacred Heart University in CT— a supposedly highly respected, accredited institution of higher learning. 🙄
That is fall down hilarious. I wonder if she challenged them to a wrestling match.
This reads like it was written by my third grader. I can’t deal with this much secondary embarrassment.
Love it.
Good lord, are we doomed to a life without grammar, spelling, clearly stated context? Can we please raise this next generation with more emphasis on to what civilized society can ascribe? Linda, shame on your own education.
OH GOD THAT'S GOOD
"YOU'VE BEEN FOUND WANTING"~Rainni
Well done! Stay strong, Harvard!
I was hoping they'd do that!! I wanna see the whole thing, though.
Came across the second page! bsky.app/profile/just...
You cannot unsee truth!
Quick question, what great job are you talking about?
Must have attended Trump University.
💀
👏👏👏👏👏
🤣🤣🤣Good for Harvard! Reposting
She’s not even the worst cabinet member. Kennedy is the greatest threat to our country.
Perfection Harvard!
I find it extremely ironic that she called the president of Harvard an embarrassment when we have a fat orange clown as president of the USA.
Well, to be fair, she's well acquainted with embarrassments, just look at who she married...
The wrestling queen uses A1 sauce instead of AI Not typing the letter into AI but it is capable of correcting basic grammatical errors I hate Republicans that insist on calling it the “Democrat Party,” usually in a slow drawl that makes them sound like hillbillies on moonshine Like Sen John Kennedy😝
She was never the queen of wrestling. But I do know of one gorgeous queen in AEW. The promotion going up against WWE
To be fair, a lot of these academics aren't any good at fake wrestling.
Speak for youself...I could go a round or two
Love it! This is one of Life's Beauties
Love this🧡
I digress here to this👆 to this!👇
RFK Jr. is looking into alternative treatments for it.
🤣That's awesome
Really America, did anyone expect any different???🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where’s the rest of it? Is it posted on Harvard’s social media accounts?
Keep reposting it. We've really gonna make an a** out of this b**** Sure how incompetent and stupid she is, and she needs education, not harvard!
Repost and show this is why Harvard has such good people. This stupid b**** can't even write a letter to them That doesn't need corrected! Bravo harvard! We're proud of you.Stay strong.Don't back down.Don't stop and sue the son of a b****!
Nicely done, Harvard ♥️
Once again none of $$Trump's cabinet members belong to MENSA... Then again when elect and hire clowns, expect a circus..
I bet Claudia Sheinbaum would be a MENSA member.
In my experience, MENSA has many members who don’t believe in democracy because they are convinced of their inherent superiority over others. They believe they should rule. You know, the DOGE types who drop out because they don’t want to lower themselves to do the work to get an engineering degree.
That is unfamiliar territory for me, but I equate it with folks who have an IQ... High IQ does no equate with common sense or kindness..
The smart people I know, don't want to be in politics. Like I said, they are smart people.
🎯
Brilliant!
More of this please. They are all idiots.
Perfect!
Perfect!
Schadenfreude. 😂
The thing is she won't understand what they have done. She won't know why it's wrong and neither will any of the Trump voters. It's why they voted for him against those who are educated.
Maybe she should have used A1 to edit it.
Now that’s tangy!
You win the Internet today
Steak sauce WOULD have been more intelligent. 😉
And tangy
this is hilarious. Thank you Harvard.
Linda McMahon pinned clean for the 1-2-3
OMG definition of a self-own from the alleged sec of EDUCATION 😆 What a maroon
I really can't stand grammar Nazis and when you're the world's most famous university it looks even worse. It's the sort of thing that people will make people think you're a bit out of touch and elitist.
I really can’t stand how our society has let professional writing degrade to the point where a university can find that many obvious corrections in a letter sent by the person in charge of the nation’s federal education system. It’s not elitist to expect more from the people running our government.
The Internet was initially created for academia to communicate.
Perfect
Excellent
No, it's dumb. It's really dumb.
I’ve never wanted to pursue higher education more than in this moment.
God, I love this.
Inject this into my veins!
Once again proving that these congress members are not well educated! I do believe some who say they went to college paid someone to take their exams to pass!
She is the Secretary of Education, not a member of Congress.
And she splits her infinitives.
Linda McMahon isn't even a congress person... She's basically a Wrestling promoter.
And they put that _thing_ in charge of the Department of Education.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Read the room Linda
I don't believe for a second that those "corrections" were from a Harvard academic. Many of them are not grammatical at all, merely stylistic. I would also expect an Harvard academic to have picked up the misspelling of "largesse".
It wasn’t done by Harvard, just saw a post crediting the person who actually made the corrections.
I don't care.
Yes, Harvard would have done a better job at lampooning, I feel! www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...
Correcting style would be done in line editing. I do not think a Harvard student would need that kind of edit.
It can be spelled with or without that last 'e'.
The original French word contains the last ‘e’.
The original Latin word only has one 's'.
“ese” is a common suffix in Italian.
Are we going to continue to post irrelevant things about the origin of the word?
You started it.
Given as you replied to me talking about how the word is written in English by telling me about how it's written in French...nope.
In English, the language being discussed, you can spell it two ways. You bringing in French is utterly irrelevant. Not a complex thing to understand.
THANK YOU this was bothering me too
I followed the breadcrumbs and found that they’re not from Harvard, but from some random guy who posted it on X.
Largesse is correct. A noun meaning generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.
Yes. It is not spelt as in 4th line, 1st word. A Harvard academic would not have missed this.
Good catch of misspelling.
Never trust an uncited screenshot. Even if it isn't true, it'd be nice if it was.
Thankee. Yep, but it'd be funny as hell if was true. The comments on the thread are hilarious.
I don't believe it because Harvard is a serious institution with serious leaders. But it is pretty funny.
Seems a bit weird to comment on specific language errors at all. Maybe in secondary school. For an academic paper the actual errors, like assets vs GDP, would be pointed out with a general suggestion to look over language.
Now that's how you kick 'em in the teeth!! Go Harvard!!