Today I was driving home from the grocery store and I saw a car with words on the back windshield. I see them a lot, either advertising for a company, or some random phrase or sometimes "in memory of" someone. This one was different.
And before I share it, I have changed the university name (obviously) and blanked out the actual date. Also, I am not knocking the parents' pride or the fact that their daughter may well be one of the first in their family to graduate; maybe she worked her way through--I'm not making fun of that aspect AT ALL.
Well, let me just show you what I mean. I'll show you what it actually said and then explain afterwards why this is funny but unfortunate(although you probably won't need me to).
Proud parents whose daughter "graduated" with a "degree" from Blank University
May ##, ####
Yes. That is exactly how it was written (but with numbers and a real university name). Sigh. They are going around proclaiming to the entire city that their daughter pretended to graduate with a fake degree.
Quick grammar lesson: if you want to highlight a word or words, please don't use quotation marks. They change the meaning to the opposite; they indicate sarcasm. Use anything else, but please--I beg you--not quotation marks. Thank you.
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