‘I’d give it a D’: English teacher picks apart White House letter for 'bad grammar'
After receiving a letter signed by US President Donald Trump, a retired English teacher checked its grammar and posted her corrections online, earning both praise as "a hero" and scorn for being "sanctimonious and self-serving."
Yvonne Mason, an English teacher of 17 years who retired last year, has landed in the spotlight after she posted a picture of the Trump-signed letter she received in March. It was a response to her earlier letter calling on Trump to personally meet with the relatives of the Parkland shooting that left 17 people dead in February. Far from being elated that someone in the Trump administration took the trouble to respond, Mason scrutinized the letter for mistakes, finding as many as 11. That is discounting stylistic choices and the excessive use of the pronoun "I."
>Yvonne Mason, an English teacher of 17 years who retired last year, has landed in the spotlight after she posted a picture of the Trump-signed letter she received in March.
Great, now let's test the writing skills of all of her former students. If she has taught in the last 17 years then I highly doubt most of her students could write a formal letter any better than Trump....if at all.
Liam Johnson
>She can't be that bright. I mean she's retiring and she isn't worth even a fraction of Trump's assets. 17 years and her life can be summed up as
With enough effort, you can find grammatical errors by geniuses.
I'm sure an English teacher could find numerous errors with Obama's written whatever -- or any President, really.
Xavier Barnes
>Great, now let's test the writing skills of all of her former students. If she has taught in the last 17 years then I highly doubt most of her students could write a formal letter any better than Trump....if at all.
he's speaking american in plain context. although i am not a fan of him he is able to properly reach sections of america that were previously unable to understand liberal double-talk and bigly words.
Ayden Barnes
>explain “rule” English teachers are actually retarded, god damn The rest is just bitching about capitalizations and highlighting ‘I’ statements like it means something.
Hunter Lee
I actually don't know what this is supposed to prove other than "I am a slide thread". sage.
Samuel Rivera
>She can't be that bright. I mean she's retiring and she isn't worth even a fraction of Trump's assets This is stupid. Trump is like living proof it doesn't take smarts to make money
Brandon Morgan
>OMG this is wrong!
Jesus fuck is this teacher a 12 year old?
Wyatt Murphy
he has more important things to do than seek out multiple ways of saying the same thing
and he capitalizes the words he is capitalizing because he holds them in high esteem, just like a christian would write "He" when referring to god
Nathan Butler
So you are admitting you're an idiot for not being anywhere near as wealthy as Trump?
I mean, what's your excuse? If Trump is a moron, what does that make you?
Evan Price
>omg dont capitalize nation! stop being a bigot!
Christian Thomas
Languages constantly change.
Doesn't this stupid teacher realise that?
Plus there is this thing called dyslexia.
Elijah Barnes
The only grammar error I see there is the teacher unironically using y'all and OMG. And this letter was most likely not written by Trump, so bitching about capitalizations is kind of stupid
Connor Morales
>receive a respectful letter from the president recognizing your point of view >your first instinct is to shit all over him for trivial mistakes and post it online Yeah no wonder Trump doesn't give a shit about appealing to inner-city educated liberals. Fuck the kike media for inspiring such a zealous fervor against him. He could cure cancer and they'd still give him shit for not curing ebola too.
Connor Hernandez
again... trump is living proof that your worth and your intelligence have almost no relation.
Anyway you have no idea how much he's worth unless you know how much debt he has.
Landon Baker
>someone unironically typed "OMG this is wrong!" on paper
Josiah Sullivan
Language teacher is arrogant, call me surprised.
Robert Miller
give her this one even i can see a naughty bit already
>She thinks the president actually is the one writing you back
Lol wtf holy shit no one tell her the truth about Santa
Anthony King
>moving the goalposts
Why are you evading the question, actual nigger? What's your excuse for being a low paid liberal nigger here, if you're such a fucking intellectual?
Just admit you're a stupid faggot piece of shit underage progressive nobody that will die poor and railing against DRUMPPPHH! completely in denial of your own stupidity.
Noah Anderson
its look like a smug withered women feeling petty and decided to reeing at trump and virtue signaling it to her smug friends to accuire smug points
Parker Rogers
>half of the corrections are demands for more information
>Be teacher >Masters degree in English and Womyns queer studies >150K in debt >Making 32k a year currently to hand out spelling tests and read Anne Frank to formerly innocent children >The bane of all existence >Obese, childless, feminist >Desperately trying to pick apart the grammar of a presidential document using your advanced knowledge of feminist/queer English >Unironically thinking Drumpf is the one btfo in this entire situation
I don't pity anymore tho.
Adrian Thompson
I voted him because he is a master strategist, and his politics are better than any other political actor currently, not because he's a master grammatician. Most criticisms of Trump are merely aesthetic. Why don't you anti Trump people actually try to convince people, rather than attempt to make them "feel bad" because Drumf did something uncouth or silly.?
Grayson Sanchez
Does this dotard teacher not fucking recognize that it is common to capitalize those words in official governmental correspondence? What a pretentious cunt!
Sebastian Nelson
the world is laughing about you subchimps for a reason
Camden Richardson
This "teacher" needs to take a course in stylistics. Grammar is never set in stone; grammar is merely a set of conventions which can be broken for effect. In this case, the president is writing in a very specific style - capitalizing nouns associated with government - as a way of associating himself with the Founding Fathers of America. Her other criticisms regarding vague words and the use of the first personal singular pronoun are purely matters of personal preference.
I feel sorry for her students.
Robert Wright
they hate us cause they aint us
enjoy your decline into islamic barbarism, germcuck.
Adam Walker
Oh look, I made a grammatical error. I guess I'm retarded now.
Sebastian Thompson
>he's a master grammatician
This doesn't even exist though, is correct.
Evan Hughes
Her totalitarianism is showing.
Austin Collins
Right. How intolerant of her, to make fun of someone she should be educating. Liberal hipocrisy at it's worst.
Robert Adams
>The first thing this dumb nigger writes at the top left corner of the page is "HAV YALL TRIED GRAMMAR AND SPELL CHECK"?!?!
>SHIEET NIGGA
Jaxson Brooks
>a literal who Vs >the man in the most powerful office on the planet
Hmm.
William Williams
grammar nazis are the worst kind of Nazi its not a novel its not a reference book its a fucking letter this Cunt needs to be gassed
Evan Price
ikr leftist only want attention to score lefty points and trump is a golden river for that i wonder why they calling him fascist hitler when they can shit talking trump 24/7 i want these leftis in the era of soeharto and taste what a fascist is like
Dominic Williams
Why would you not capitalize nation or federal? I would. Goodpost. I wish we went full ancap with education.
Chase Miller
These days kids probably just get an A if their papers don't look like they're texting with a bunch of emojis slapped on the end.
Isaiah Peterson
this teacher is as big a moron as her audience. hello! no big name politician or CEO writes their own letters, they have people available for this job and they just sign them in bulk. they don't have time for petty shit like this. i bet Trump never even read this shit. if this teacher had at least a room temperature IQ she'd know this. libtards at their finest
Ian Davis
You have accomplished amazing things BUT YOU MADE A SPELLING MISTAKE SO I WIN AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - The Left, 2018 shorty before extinction
Logan Harris
>Retired after 17 years. I assume she must be one of those shit teachers that got moved over to administration work.
Anthony Garcia
The absolute state of mutts
Austin Parker
>Germans thinking others are laughable Did Merkel tell you to write that?
>a building is illiterate >memeflag you are cancerous and vile
Juan Gray
Akbar was probably the greatest leader of india and brought it into a golden age. He litterally could not read or write and thought learning to was actually counter intuitive to being leader. He simply needed to be able to create messages even the most mindless could understand.
Trump keeps trolling you with poor grammar and typos and like crack you have to reach for it.
Luis Mitchell
>when you think grammar skills create more wealth than building an empire with an economy, infrastructure, security, jobs etc. etc.
literally that's why intellectuals live in their bubble. all they can do is thinking, because thinking is comfortable and doesn't require any action or work.
Jayden Robinson
Retiring after 17 years??? fuck off you free loading bitch.
Cooper Diaz
roasty English teach was prolly a die-hard GWB supporter ... the guy who chose "Miss Spelling" as director of education
So she only disagreed with capitalization? That’s a style preference and not grammar.
Austin Smith
>Riddled with errors Bullshit, she split hairs so she could make it look as bad as possible. Let's take a look. >Marks down every "N" for nation to not be capitalized. Why? We know he is referring to to the U.S. specifically, which is a proper noun, so capitalization is fine. She does the same thing with "Federal," when we know he is referring specifically to the government of the U.S. and not a generic federal government. >Highlights without explanation. What's the problem here? >"As President" should say "of the U.S." to be capitalized We know Trump is referring to himself as President of the U.S., she is splitting hairs again to make it look bad. >Specific agency? Why would he list them out this is a short letter and he doesn't have time for that bullshit. That isn't required. >Explain rule He is referring to a federal regulation, and if she knew anything about federal agencies she would know that it is also called a "rulemaking process." Thus, rule is fine and requires no explanation.
Now, show me the errors I missed.
Brody Edwards
I'm an intellectual and I can tell you that's wrong. These people demagogues, sophists who have the sole goal of enriching themselves at everyone else's expense through lies and manipulation. They are not intellectual, hell they're barely intelligent. They only appear so to dumb people. Their whole tactic revolves around inciting masses of dumb people with complicated word salads that sound vaguely intelligent. Don't ask them questions though, or they'll be revealed immediately. That's why they hate free speech and anyone who promotes it.
John Gomez
No this is living proof that you don't need an education to earn money and rule a country.
Jonathan Howard
>the only "mistakes" he could find are nation and federal being capitalized. >complains about trump not specifying which agency or exactly the rule he was talking about talk about vapid, passive aggressive cunt grasping at straws to make herself feel better >you get a D, hehe xD the D is for DRUMPF lmao!!!!
Cooper Thompson
>Mason HMMMMMM...
Luis Turner
There is literally nothing more worthless in this world than a modern public school teacher. Let this bitch huff her own farts.
Carter Mitchell
Who needs to think when you've got trust funds and government gibbs
Sebastian Phillips
>reddit spacing GTFO MY POL FAGGOT REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jack Robinson
right because electing trump is kind of like that town that elected a dog as mayor.
Sebastian Kelly
I watched an interesting breakdown of his campaign a few days ago and you're not far off the mark. Most of his campaign business is conducted in proverbial plain text and concise language for the barely literate masses. Only in business dealings does any of his paperwork get in the weeds where legalese requires extremely specific language.
Charles Jones
Well, he invaded Syria. That should have been a warning.
Sebastian Taylor
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