Yesterday I received a paper from a student who apparently has no awareness of the sexual connotations of the word "bugger," resulting in sentences referring to a certain character as "an outstanding bugger" who attends "a bugger convention." The character in question is, as you may have surmised, a surveillance expert.
Is it possible that this student has never been exposed to the vulgar use of "bugger"?
If so, how do I inform the student of this connotation without coming across as the Guardian of the Dirty Words?
2 comments:
How about assigning the student a one page paper to do that looks at the historical use of that word as well as others (such as gay)?
Wow! A doctor at that! Assigning the student a paper to figure out about the word gay! If I could only go back to school and have some of you teaching me (ugh!)
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