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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Internet Slang on a Test



I have a problem with the marker giving the test taker a zero for question 2. I suppose the answer they were looking for was 'amateur', but if I were the marker, 'noob' would get a mark. Newbie is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary! Although, I suppose that means that I would also have to accept 1n7013r4nc3 for question 4.

3 comments:

Henry Lo said...

The teacher is actually looking for the opposite of "pro-" (as a prefix). The correct answer should be "anti-"
If you're talking about people using "pro" as a short prefix for professional, well that's not proper English anyway...

Anonymous said...

See the hyphen that indicates "pro-" is a prefix? The answer was probably "con-."

Blah blah said...

They spelled "hopeful" incorrectly..