An English professor said that he would give an 'A' for the entire course to anyone that wrote a decent palindrome. I wrote the following:
An aid for Eve
Free beer from Adam
Mad Amor!
Free beer fever of Diana
As you can see, I sort of cheated and used the Latin 'amor'. He said, "Needs work." Alas, no 'A'.
2007-02-15 11:00:07 · 13 answers · asked by americandork2001 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If your teacher has a problem with you using words from Latin he should read Shakespeare, cause he did that all the time. Tons of English words have been borrowed from Latin and I think most English speakers would recognize instantly what amor means (faster that commonly accepted Latin phrases like "ad hoc", for instance). You could just as easily complain that you used the Hebrew word "Adam." If anything needs work I'd say the puncuation could be a bit better, just to make it more readible. Otherwise that's very witty. Your professor probably just wanted you to touch it up a bit, cause you should never hand in a first draft of anything.
2007-02-16 07:12:15 · answer #1 · answered by David S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you could use a different beginning/end (An aid/Diana)- I don't know what. Meanwhile, he's right, it isn't great, but even when you do come up with the greatest palindrome known in the English-speaking world, he probably will still not give you an A in the class since that would take a lot of explaining to the board of education. ;P He shouldn't say he'd give an A out for anything other than hard work.
2007-02-15 19:29:39 · answer #2 · answered by AMEWzing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your English professor sucks! That is one wicked palindrome! Also, I don't believe you cheated coz everybody knows that "amor" means love. Ever heard of the song "My Cherie Amor"? Amor is perfectly acceptable. I'd have given you an A+
2007-02-16 04:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to give my honest opinion.
I think that it's really pretty good. The only thing that I would say is it would need to make a little more sense (I'm talking mostly about the last line. That in itself is pretty hard to accomplish. I would say just writing a verse like that for me would take a LONG time. No wonder he said he would give an 'A' for the entire course. Of course, he had to make it hard if he was going to offer that.
I think it's "decent" but, then again, I am not an English professor either.
2007-02-15 19:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by Full Moon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have got be kidding. The assignment was to create a decent palindrome. He did not specify whether it was okay or not to use Latin or any other language.
You definitely completed the task at hand and I believe you deserve an "A"!
2007-02-15 22:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by Matty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's funny that Xbord2deathx said she would have failed you for not knowing what a palindrome is.
Anyway, it WAS a palindrome technically, but the words (as a whole) didn't make much sense. So yes, needs work.
2007-02-16 12:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by Havana Brown 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a palindrome is something u spell like ana and if you wrote it backwards its the same word. you didnt really do a palindrome so if i was that person grading you i would have failed you for not knowing what a palindrome is
2007-02-15 21:14:33 · answer #7 · answered by deee 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Give it up your teacher is right.....it needs work.
2007-02-16 02:32:04 · answer #8 · answered by jo c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he said he'd give you an A, then he should do it.
2007-02-15 19:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it needs work
2007-02-15 19:08:49 · answer #10 · answered by - - MiSS SEYDi.. &♥; ™ 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋