> Who wants to hire an English major to
>
>write Elizabethan iambic pentameter? These "employers" are, for the
>most part, illiterate donkeys. I remember having lunch with one of
>our best composition teachers, a man who got stuck as the prime
>faculty representative on the committee to write DePaul's new
>"strategic plan". He spent a good part of that lunch shaking his
>head at his naive belief that he might be able to contribute to an
>elegantly written plan.
>
This brings to mind one my favorite all-time cartoons. It was posted on the wall at Apple -- 15 years ago when I worked there.
It shows a city scape of skyscrapers. The caption is: "The business world is crying out for English majors. --The Times, Aug 25."
Three word-baloons are shown to come out of three different skyscrapers.
--One says: "We need someone to transcribe these minutes into sonnet form, pronto. Can you handle it, Ed?"
--The next says "What's the proper way to conjugate the verb "to fire" in the past imperfect tense, Barbara?"
--And the final one "Melanie, this financial report needs something...more irony, I think. See what you can do, huh?"
Joanna