Example Sentences
It turns out, I suck a little at example sentences. Back in the fall, I was really psyched about getting to make up example sentences. Examples sentences are a great place to show how clever I am, or to make people I don’t like do mildly embarrassing things, or just to throw in some Wu Tang references or something. But I guess I’m not clever enough, because my example sentences have sucked all year.
- The students worked up until the last minute.
That was pretty much as interesting as the sentences in my first paper got. Now, the sentence was a perfectly reasonable example of the phenomenon that the paper was about, but it’s just really fucking boring. In my second paper, I got a little better. I used a bunch of rhyming names—Mary, Gerry, Larry, Gary, Sherry, Barry—which was a little more fun, but mostly the paper consisted of examples like:
- What did you eat for dinner and drink with it?
I’m starting up another paper for this quarter, and my examples currently are all variations of:
- Annie believes there is a lion in the foyer. She hopes it is friendly.
Pretty lame, right? Hopefully the paper will get more interesting than the examples. I’m also taking a “how to teach” course this quarter, for which I gave a practice lecture on Tuesday. I needed examples of propositions to motivate my introduction to propositional logic. Here they are:
- Terriers are dogs.
- Math is fun.
- Die Hard is the best movie ever.
- Pancakes are better than waffles.
I included the fourth one because I wanted an example of a proposition that was false.
