Words of wisdom from Rod Serling

[handsomeharry]

@njtt

No you don’t, because (a) you’re generally and legally considered an adult well before that time, and, (b) even if that were not so, as Recusant is pointing out, the ceremony marks the end of undergraduate life and not the beginning of whatever phase is to come (which might even, for some, be more college).

Serling, in the speech, notes that commencement means beginning. Did you read it?

You are being needlessly pedantic as well.
Nobody considers a high school student an ‘adult’, except for the law. (except for the rare ‘goes back to school’ story.)

[Doug_K]

@handsomeharry

I’ve never heard of a graduation being called a ‘commencement’.
The ceremony is the Graduation, the address is the Commencement Address. The CA addresses the future(which is where ‘commence’ ties in), with little reference to the past.

The two go together, and I think that that’s where you are confused.

And, beside being incorrect, you are being petulant and pedantic. Needlessly.

No. Graduation is the process. The ceremony is called commencement.