[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Put down" or "put to sleep"? and Scantrons (Was; wifebeaters)

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Carol responds:
>  BTW, my young client is now writing about students taking tests using
>  Scantrons. She seems to be using the term to refer to the test form. I
>  thought the Scantron was the machine used to score the test. Or can
>  the term be used to refer to both?

Ali:
My TAs/GAs/profs always called them Scantron sheets, but I can see how
it might be shortened (a la "Can you Xerox this?") and can see the
average reader not getting overly confused, though some might think
the writer a bit odd.


>  Carol, feeling more and more like a fossil but agreeing that "put to
>  sleep" is a perfectly acceptable term, if somewhat euphemistic

Ali:
As Magpie already elaborated, "put to sleep" is somewhat accurate -
animals are usually put to sleep before, um, being sent to the big bed
in the sky... Personally, I'm all for calling it what it is, but I
don't because that would get me too many raised eyebrows.

And Carol, I've sent many an odd draft to "cleints" before.  I know
the feeling (but I think that, considering this is the OT list, people
are quite relaxed here even knowing you're an editor).

~Ali, who thinks English the hardest language she has ever learned