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Us Secondary Teachers mark in green ink as well nowadays, its seen as less dictatorial/imposing... definitely nothing to do with rank :ROFLMAO:
 
When I did my dissertation, 20-odd years ago, we had a 2-hour submission window one Friday morning. I had typed my dissertaion, all ready to go, and took it down to my local printer, 4-ish on the Thursday, for binding. The lady there put it into the machine and pulled the trigger. Big mistake. She hadn't got the pages in square, so all the holes ran out. It was ruined. Fortunately I had the file on a USB stick, so they printed it all off again and bound it properly, but for a little while I was in need of some new clothing.
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Woodbloke said:
When I was writing for F&C years ago I did much the same thing but I could never see the obvious errors in my text. Fortunately my daughter was at home at the time studying for her MA so she was quite happy to wield the red pen and then fling the text back to me - Rob

Edit - odd fact but apparently true. Very senior ranks in the Army write (or correct mistakes) in green ink and are the only ones allowed to do so.
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Maybe that's why when I was a young bobby in 1970, my old Colonel Blimp of a Chief Superintendent gave am a rollocking for using green ink for writing statements and reports! 😆
 
Raymedullary said:
Us Secondary Teachers mark in green ink as well nowadays, its seen as less dictatorial/imposing... definitely nothing to do with rank :ROFLMAO:
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Should have clarified that it's within the British Army that only senior officers use green ink. As a secondary teacher myself I used red ink as did all my other colleagues - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
Should have clarified that it's within the British Army that only senior officers use green ink. As a secondary teacher myself I used red ink as did all my other colleagues - Rob
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Same with me when I started Teaching CDT in 86. Not anymore though.
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Or, was he just colour blind?
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Reminds me of the time the BBC were asking staff at the Ealing Film Studios what colours they wanted the new car parks to be called. Many of the attendees …film editors, directors, designers etc …were adamant that they should use geometric shapes such as square, triangle. I heard about this one day over lunch with one of the senior managers.

“I can explain that. Some of them are colour blind”. You should have seen his face :ROFLMAO:
 
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