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Classroom Discussions

These quotes, all from young adults, were taken from college classroom discussions. One wonders how some of them made it through high school.

"The first line is important, and the second line is important, and..." -- A student, when asked what was important about a literary passage.
"'Pence' must be some type of offering."
"It's possible to construct an intelligent sentence without using those big words."
"I shouldn't be expected to be able to spell."
"The serpent... the fruit... eating the fruit... sin... you know..."
"It has to do with, like, you know, the, like, unexpected, like, you know what I mean? Like, you know, like, like, unexpected, and, umm...you know?"
"The countess kept telling the old lady that... it's... that... you know what I mean? Hold on..."