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In their unguarded moments, college professors say the darndest things.

The Modern Language Association, which represents thousands of College English professors nationwide, is actually trying to understand religion in American life.

The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.

If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Who is really attending the yearly MLA convention?

If the MLA convention speakers are any indication, English professors have a penchant for made up, misused and awkwardly constructed words. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

Solving literacy problems one road trip at a time. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention.

It seems that many English professors just can’t figure out why good men like Joseph Stalin are disliked nowadays. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

Don’t expect red ink marking those comma splices and run-on sentences in your next English class. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

English professors like to talk about current events and war for oil theories about Iraq, but rarely do they get their facts straight first. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

When English professors do talk about grammar at the Modern Language Association convention, it is to explain its irrelevance, not its necessity.

“The pleasure of romance novels sets us up to accept the violence and carnage of Abu Ghraib,” said Professor Teresa L. Ebert. From the 2005 Modern Language Association convention held in Washington, D.C.