parallel structure, typos, keeping the allies down

[kismet09]

This just in my mailbox: "This is a college conference for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Allie, and Fluid College Students..."

Good for you trying to be all inclusive and stuff, but really, Allie? Who's Allie?

A couple of years ago, I went to a conference called MBLGTACC (Midwest Bi Les Gay Trans Ally Collegiate Conference, I think). That was quite the acronym. We called it 'mumble-guh-tack'.

Edit: My next email is announcing a dissertation talk on a paper called "A Detailed Study of the Interaction Between the Phosphorylated Rhodopsin Cytoplasmic Tail and Both Arrestin and Its Splice Variant, p44." I couldn't even tell you if any of that is spelled oddly.

Anywho...

Comments

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

Ally? or perhaps plural Allies?? then it is only a one letter typo.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

yeah, but none of the others are pluralized. It made me giggle, in any case. The poor, put upon allies who do not feel included don't even get their indentity spelled correctly.