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10 October, 2006

An excerpt from an email I received today at work:

Thanks. Please update me once you hear. Our situation is now untenably scandalous. We need textbooks.

Untenably scandalous?!?! I love it! I mean, I don’t love it because resolving this issue will be a pain in the ass but I’ve never seen someone put those two words together as a phrase and I would never have imagined that someone at my workplace would use it. I am so impressed.

Untenably scandalous… yeah.

 

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11 October, 2006 at 1:43 pm

Andrew

Intriguing, makes me wonder what level of scandal is tenable, and what does the lack of textbooks have to do with it. One of my best friends works for a textbook publishing company that mostly publishs ESL readers, and their idea of scandalous is whether or not there is enough diversity in the illustrations.