Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions Forum

fiercegoldfish · Post by **fiercegoldfish** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:28 pm

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cc1012 · Post by **cc1012** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:31 pm

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benwyatt · Post by **benwyatt** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:32 pm

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TLSModBot · Post by **TLSModBot** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:33 pm

Yeah, only do this if you misspelled it as 'Harvard.'

fats provolone · Post by **fats provolone** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:36 pm

pancakes3 · Post by **pancakes3** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:06 pm

negging Stanford - I like it.

lawlorbust · Post by **lawlorbust** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:18 pm

At least you didn't call them Samford ...

Nekrowizard · Post by **Nekrowizard** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:23 pm

If it makes you feel better they probably passed it around their office so that they could laugh at it before they dinged you.

Mack.Hambleton · Post by **Mack.Hambleton** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:08 pm

Change your name and reapply next year

DecisionMaker100 · Post by **DecisionMaker100** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:17 pm

If you don't want to deal with it, you can just go to standford law school instead

pleadthafif · Post by **pleadthafif** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:19 pm

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Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:55 am

Just consider this a lesson to friggin proofread important emails in the future. I for some reason get 10% dumber when I write emails and end up making stupid mistakes, so I understand. But I've made enough of them so that I know to double check my emails before sending them.

ihenry · Post by **ihenry** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:52 am

If that makes you feel better, I misspelled my undergrad school name in an e-mail to a law school asking for fee waiver. My friends were like, LOLOLOLOLOL you must have bought a fake degree HAHAHAHAHA. I nearly wanted to jump off a building.

fiercegoldfish · Post by **fiercegoldfish** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:08 pm

Thanks for all the advice! I most certainly will not write back pointing out the error, as ya'll have advised (and unfortunately I don't have the time to find and befriend a Bill Standford).

Germaine · Post by **Germaine** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:16 pm

It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'

EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:18 pm

Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'

fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised

benwyatt · Post by **benwyatt** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:31 pm

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fiercegoldfish · Post by **fiercegoldfish** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:45 pm

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EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:50 pm

fiercegoldfish wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:
Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'

fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised
Will apologize for "misspelled" (though on a forum that doesn't bother me so much), won't apologize for "ya'll" though! And you're right benwyatt. There's no excuse!

You don't have to apologize. But you are putting the apostrophe in the wrong place. The contraction shortens "you all." It is incorrect to separate the (a) from the (ll) - that makes no sense. It's y'all, not ya'll.

fiercegoldfish · Post by **fiercegoldfish** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:54 pm

EnderWiggin wrote:
fiercegoldfish wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:
Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'

fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised
Will apologize for "misspelled" (though on a forum that doesn't bother me so much), won't apologize for "ya'll" though! And you're right benwyatt. There's no excuse!
You don't have to apologize. But you are putting the apostrophe in the wrong place. The contraction shortens "you all." It is incorrect to separate the (a) from the (ll) - that makes no sense. It's y'all, not ya'll.

Oh, got it! I've never been corrected on that before, but will make sure to fix it in the future. Thanks!

fats provolone · Post by **fats provolone** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:10 pm

It depends on the situation actually.

Y'all (short for "you all") is for small groups

Ya'll (short for "y'all all") is for large groups or to mean "everyone." In some regions "all y'all" is also used for this purpose.

EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:13 pm

fats provolone wrote:It depends on the situation actually.

Y'all (short for "you all") is for small groups

Ya'll (short for "y'all all") is for large groups or to mean "everyone." In some regions "all y'all" is also used for this purpose.

Y'all all. New to me, but I like it.

pancakes3 · Post by **pancakes3** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:18 pm

Team all y'all.

ihenry · Post by **ihenry** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:55 pm

I initially thought ya'll for you all is unequivocally wrong because not in any stage of English that I'm aware of were you allowed to break a normal word and insert an apostrophe. But then I realized if you take "ya" to mean "you" and contract "all" into "'ll", it does remotely make some sense.

ManoftheHour · Post by **ManoftheHour** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:02 pm

Mack.Hambleton wrote:Change your name and reapply next year