Hier Education
Category: Just Plain Silly... Local...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 at 03:25 PM [GMT-6]

Here's an excerpt from an email my sister-in-law received from the local community college reminding her that it was time to pay the tuition for The Nephew's spring semester course:

If you have took care of your balance today 1-19-2007 by 10:00 AM please disregard this email.

Oh, did I mention that the class is English?

In their defense, this is a common mistake, as the past pluperperfect participalian ruling often requires an awkward grammatical structure, such as "if you have tooken care of your balance."

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I wish I had majored in English when I was in college instead of just tooking the required freshman comp class.

Posted by: Jim at January 22, 2007 04:13 PM

I thought it was supposed to be "If you have already done gone and fortooked care of..." but I guess that's just how I learned English - shows how good my school system was. ;)

Posted by: beth at January 22, 2007 04:55 PM

At the school I went to (in California), many toked their balance. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at January 22, 2007 05:48 PM

I have tooken care of my balance, thanken very much.

Posted by: mis_nomer at January 22, 2007 10:20 PM
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