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[Poll #1180373]


Mostly just because I'm curious. They're all pretty much unrelated.

Pronunciation "prevalence": I've always done it the second way, but this group that presented in Drugs and Society today, all SEVEN of them, pronounced it the first way, and it really bothered me. So now I'm not sure if I'm just a freak or it's a regional thing or they just can't pronounce words.

Pronunciation "comfortable": Here's where I'm pretty sure I'm a freak, because I pronounce it the second way. I've heard a couple people pronounce it the first way recently, and at first I was like "WTF? NOT HOW YOU PRONOUNCE THAT WORD" and then I was like "...wait. That pronunciation totally matches how the word looks. ...and my pronunciation makes no sense." So now I want to see if I'm alone in my freaky pronunciation.

One or two spaces: I was taught 2 spaces between sentences when I first learned to type, and I cannot make myself NOT do it. This isn't normally a problem, except my film professor wants us to only put one space between sentences for whatever reason (it can't be due to like... page count or anything, since we have a word count for the paper, not a page count, and I don't see how the number of spaces affects that), and I absolutely CANNOT force myself to do it. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to go back once I'm done with the paper and change the spaces between every sentence to only one space.

Random poll, I know. But I felt like procrastinating some more. I officially have 133 words out of 2000 right now. heh. Not so good. I'm just really stuck about how to approach this paper. I really need to just DO it and stop bitching about it, I know. sigh.

Last random tidbit before actually getting to work! Something that's really been amusing me in my Film Analysis class: Ok, so we've been discussing how different things like... masculinity and femininity and such are socially-constructed categories and are not inherent qualities defining what men or women are, and my professor keeps describing how these categories are "post-it notes" that we put on people and the world sees them that way and such, and I can't help but always thinking about The Office episode "Diversity Day" when Michael puts the various post-it notes on people's head of different races and then everyone's supposed to treat each other like the race on their head. This wouldn't be a problem (it's actually a pretty good literal example of what he's describing) except that every time he brings it up, I start cracking up, and... what he's discussing isn't actually amusing. But I figured that you all would be much more appreciative of how amusing it is.

Ok, time to work!

Comments

[anna-bo-banna.livejournal.com]

my film professor wants us to only put one space between sentences for whatever reason

that is SUCH a weird request. i mean, i only do one space because i worked in book publishing and that's how they do it and i just got used to it after a while, but i cannot understand why it would matter so much to a professor who's just going to read your paper once and put it aside. that's ridiculous.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

I know! I really have no clue why he is insisting on only one space. The ONLY reason I could figure is that two spaces vs. one space could make a difference of like... a few lines, MAYBE, in the length of the paper. But this can't be the reason since he's not concerned with page count, he has a specific word count (since we're supposed to include stills from the film we're analyzing within the paper, so basing it on page count would make no sense), which isn't affected at all by spaces between sentences. My only other guess is that he wants to make sure people actually read the guidelines he wrote up for writing papers (where he mentions that he wants 1 space), because I can't imagine that it makes the papers easier to read or affects it in any other way. But maybe I'm the only one who uses 2 spaces and so it doesn't really matter for most people. Who knows.