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[rivendellrose]

Excerpts from Cora's practice final (the final that the professor gave last year):

"See is modification removed with a phosphate or mass spectrometry analysis."

...I fear for the English language, if a PhD wrote that. *Dies*

Comments

[ursula]

Well, you know, you don't actually have to speak English to get a Ph.D. in chemistry . . .

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

No, but it doesn't hurt to have a TA (preferably a native speaker...) proofread your final exams to make sure they're legible.

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

bah. the ta's are science people too...they all speak in some strange language. definitely not english tho...

[nekokoban]

... yanno, when Myra said that the practice tests were really oddly-worded, I didn't think it was quite this bad.

My sympathy for them grows by the minute. O_O