<p>Thanks guys for your help, it turned out rather well.</p>
<p><a href=“http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/20/News/Site-Provides.Info.For.PreFrosh-2871311.shtml?reffeature=popuarstoriestab[/url]”>http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/20/News/Site-Provides.Info.For.PreFrosh-2871311.shtml?reffeature=popuarstoriestab</a></p>
<p>fair and balanced ;)</p>
<p>sad to see denzera wasnt mentioned…and he tried so hard to get in that article too</p>
<p>He could’ve just said he was a pre-frosh girl.</p>
<p>guys, denzera had a like a full page spread last spring. complete with a pictorial.</p>
<p>eat your hearts out.</p>
<p>I offered help. looks like that thread got deleted though, oddly.</p>
<p>How come everyone thinks all the big shots are girls? Is that like a Metroid/Halo-esque quality?</p>
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<p>It seems that the people who have been perceived as girls are the ones who write in coherent English and complete sentences.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you just ■■■■■■■ me, but either way I was referring to people who are senior Members AND whose gender we don’t know. Your comment so entirely unneccessary and it says a lot about you if you judge through diction.</p>
<p>There’s a whole facebook group full of people who judge based on diction.</p>
<p>I can’t tell if that helps me or hurts me…</p>
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<p>1) It’s a completely appropriate comment. It’s my opinion on how posters on here make certain perceptions about other posters.</p>
<p>2) I do judge people by how they write. On a message board, where a person’s writing is the ONLY thing I know about him/her, it’s very reasonable to judge that person based on his/her writing.</p>
<p>No, it’s not diction that I judge people on. Big words don’t impress me. It’s mainly clarity – is your post coherent and can I understand what the heck you’re saying, or do you write like the guy in Flowers for Algernon? Also, well-known grammatical/spelling errors that can’t be passed off as “typos” reflect poorly on people (your/you’re, there/they’re/their, irregardless, definately, etc.)</p>
<p>I, for one, “judge you when you use bad grammar.”</p>
<p>I’m a member of that facebook group. =D</p>
<p>By the way, cclkrx, could you not get an interview w/ the Columbia adcoms? I found it funny that you quoted the MIT adcom extensively and didn’t seem to have a quote from Columbia’s adcoms.</p>
<p>Denzera: Sorry, but the thread was deleted by the moderator since I was soliciting. It would have been really helpful though.</p>
<p>Columbia2002: I did not get official quotes from them, since the dean was not there and most are forbidden to speak to the media. The editors decided to run the story though. Unofficially, Columbia has no plans for a blog in the near future.</p>
<p>Diction? Diction refers to the spoken word, not written</p>
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<p>Um, no. Why don’t you, like, look up diction in the DICTIONary before you make a cretin out of yourself.</p>
<p>Sorry Mommy, I’m with Columbia. Diction is word choice either spoken or written.
However, Columbia, my mother may have been correct in that diction also refers to clarity of speech.
I think that might be the first time she has ever been wrong. wow.</p>
<p>Are you seriously her child?</p>
<p>haha yeah. I’m her D.</p>