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Day: April 4, 2019

Lessons From High School #1

April 4, 2019May 5, 2019 L.T. HanlonLeave a comment

Sometimes what we’re taught long ago is of use throughout our lives. That’s the case with me and a class I took from Miss Paula Pearcy.

This image is of a typewritten page with the text that follows. Paula Pearcy’s Pangram Problem. I attended Jefferson High School in Edgewater, Colorado, and graduated in the long-age year of 1972. One of the few teachers who taught me a lifetime of lessons was Miss Paula Pearcy, who presided over journalism. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t benefit from Miss Pearcy’s expertise. She taught us about ledes, nut Grafs, fitting hens with the J-FLIT system, and sizing and resining photos. One of the most memorable moments in Miss Pearcy’s class occurred when we were testing our typing skills. She told us that she disliked the traditional pangram The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog for two reasons. First, it fails to convey complete information. Readers only learn the color of the fox. Second, because of this incomplete information, the sentence also lacks the expected parallel structure. Miss Peacry, of course, provided the solution. The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog. She explained her decision to assign colors is based on most readers assuming that a fox would be some shade of red. She also said she learned this new and improved pangram from a college professor of her many years previously. As for me, I discovered my favorite pangram in an edition of Writer’s Digest in the early 1980s, if I recall correctly. Dumpy kibbitzer jingles as exchequer overflows. That definitely creates a more vivid image than a leaping fox.

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