barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (03/30/85)
(In response to a piece of mail whose address I can't figure out well enough to respond to privately. Then again, if one netter couldn't figure this out, there may be more.) The student's "I am a pole apart from him" was probably derived from the idiom "he and I are poles apart" (meaning their positions differ as much as the North and South Poles). Maybe we could start a discussion on interesting typos. I once had a student write that NYC had many "skycrappers." I got cured of submitting non-proofread papers myself by once referring to a "Pee ing Tom." My professor circled the phrase, drew a line out to the margin, and wrote (plaintively) "Please!" --Lee Gold