frakshurd frases - secondary grades
Thoughts on politics:
- Pollaticians don always run from office
- The maer is my uncle
- There’s grafting in government
Plucked from high school essays are these literary jewels:
- “Like the billboards say, are mines are turbo things to waste.”
- “We have Immaculate Conception in our town.” (in reference to a nearby convent)
- “No one knows the answer to this question. What is the question? No one knows.” (a circular reference of the writing kind)
From the book reviews . . .
- “Less Miserable, a book that should have been called More Miserable. I hated it.”
- “Frankenstein. . . the author should have watched the movie before writing it.”
- “To Kill a Mockingbird is not about no bird!”
Proper nouns have always troubled writers. Combined with a lack of historical and geographical knowledge and you find examples such as:
Albert Insine, the author of the theory of relativity, and
Ejept, the North African country of which Cairo is the capital.
Then, there are the times when it seems an event is important enough to deserve capitalization such as a family or class get together, known as a Reya Youn Yen.
The battle of the spoken vs. the written word!
- "She stripped and jumped into the gucosy, you know that big tub with hot bubbling water."
- " He gave her a dimon neclise for her birthday."
- " It was a maverless day, simply maverless!"
- “all they had was close on their back”
- “newspapers are chalk full of stories”
- “they were at least 12 hundred pounded animals”
And this student reflects on a current events issue:
“Why hasn’t there been a female president? Female runners are capable of doing just as good as male runners.”
Who says “writing on demand” can’t be entertaining?
- “The world would just be weird without relationships…because for the world to populate that takes relationships between two people.” (A logical, heartfelt argument seeking to prove the value of relationships.)
- “...my tasks escalade in difficulty” (A challenge also shared by Cadillac, no doubt!)
- “I see long sharp ice cycles dangling from the roof.” (To be ridden by snowmen?)
Often, our teen writers present vivid, if not jarring images, albeit inadvertently. The following real life examples prove the point:
- “The award is a noble peace prize”
- “Money has become a valued material in recent years”
- “it’s a good versitotal story”
- “What can we do to stop this upside down and backwards societal spiral?”
- “We need to keep a low profile on profanity.”
- “He learned how uncomfortably the sits were.”
- “...at the peak of my furry”
- “My stand on the addition of a new varsity sport lies with football.”
- “I think my school is learning not to have sex.”
Straight from the pencils of our 6-12 grade writers we
found the following interestingly spelled words and
funny phrases:
| “mizzerubble wethur ” |
(rainy and cold outside) |
| “nunbuddy nose” |
(no one is knowledgeable) |
| “shes mor machur” |
(girl is older) |
| “germinate” |
(to become a naturalized German) |
| “Madman Curie discovered radium” |
(Madam Curie discovered radium) |
| “I hoped you enjoyed reading my S.A.” |
(I hoped you enjoyed reading my short answer.) |
| “...like being admitted to an Ivory League school” |
(...like being admitted to an Ivy League school) |
The syntax or the exact structure of what we write
plays an essential role in establishing meaning. Change
the structure and you have changed the meaning, at least
slightly. Examples from the local newspaper headlines:
| “Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax” |
| “Miners Refuse to Work After Death” |
| “Woman Improving After Fatal Crash” |
Poetry is often a place to find and use highly descriptive
words and phrases. Here are a few examples
from our teen authors:
| “pragonit prensas” |
(royalty in the family way) |
| “in vier mint” |
(what Greenpeace is about) |
| “par tickle her he” |
(to a distinctly greater degree) |
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