March 11, 2003

Beware the Slymps of March

Some campus group organized an exhibit called "The Tunnel of Oppression," which sounds like a leftist mirror-world version of those haunted-house-like "Hell" exhibits some fundamentalist church groups put up. Anyway, one of the organizers wrote an error-filled, syntax-broken letter of complaint to Erin O'Connor for daring to criticizing his group's endeavor.

Update: whoops -- forgot a sample of the brilliant prose --

This past fall we presented this program and had over 750 students go through this program and impacted each and every one of them. At our annual residence life conferance we had 240 student staff attend this program. What most of you fail to comprehend is that different people expierence situations in different ways. This program is a slymps of how others may have to live on a daily basis.

Um -- what's a "slymps"? I mean, I thought I was stupid not to get a drug reference in a classmate's paper the other day.

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 11, 2003 01:43 PM
Comments

It's what happens when you're impacted by the program.

Posted by: Joe McNally at March 11, 2003 at 02:01 PM

from the context, a piss-poor attempt to spell "glimpse"?

Posted by: chris at March 11, 2003 at 02:09 PM

I think Chris is right, even if I cannot reproduce the error. Big Arm Woman over at Tightly Wound alleges that the author is a "Higher Education" major, whatever that is. I'm frightened. Is he a future Principal? A D.Ed in the making?

Posted by: Jack at March 11, 2003 at 04:52 PM

Every time I think the left just can't be parodied anymore, they go and outdo themselves again. Self-parody is the saddest.

Posted by: Ken Summers at March 11, 2003 at 06:35 PM

Sounds like a summer vacation report.

"We held a program. Lots of people came. We dialogued. I had a nice time."

Posted by: Juan Gato at March 11, 2003 at 07:42 PM

He impacted each and every student, eh? I believe 'impacting' people like should be illegal.

Posted by: amy at March 12, 2003 at 09:46 AM

Actually, in my work we say "impacted" a lot, but we mean things slamming into other things. "Hit", "slam", and "slug" just don't sound professional enough, though it would sure liven up the writing.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at March 12, 2003 at 10:38 AM