You never know what your students are going to write.
This was one of the best essays so far.
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this made my day
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your a loserrr
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your a nerd your a loser
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not even cool
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who likes pantss;. i dont even wear them
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i get off on this shit
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Every languages are meant to change (evolve) over time, and so will their grammar. You guys are just afraid of losing something you are confortable with. The change is inevitable but it will happen gradually. We'll probably be all dead by then anyway. So you can still bicker on about unappropriate grammar/syntax/orthography, but in the end it's only a matter of following the current "order" (meaning "what must be done and how"). I've seen people getting really mad over some silly mistakes that happened in non-formal context. Seriously, I don't think it really matters, as long as the text is legible.
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UMM STICKS UP ARSES
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HAHA BANGKOK LADYBOY TEACHER.
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Oh dear, panchira action in an essay…
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>:[ For your information those were made illegal awhile ago.
Some people from almost any country would do the same thing.
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Good for you Cevin. The wilfilly idiotic responses to your comment have made me a bit angry. Are you priviliged idiots drawling 'OMG relax already, LOL' not ashamed of yourselves? Also i note that most replies to this perfectly decent comment are anally fixated. Get some decency and self respect, you conformist ,complacent consumers. And smug old Abram with your self conscious green splurge, you look as if you're trying to appear 'wise' in a sort of Leonard Cohen way?- well that's clearly not the case. Your sneer makes you ugly.
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good for you. Perhaps Bobrick is right and the pupil's permission was given – in which case i'd expect Abram would reassure his readers, as it seems to be a matter of concern for a lot of them. Perhaps 'who cares' is right, and we should all just 'lighten up'. i.e. cease to care, turn a blind eye, stop making an effort, conform to the idiot crowd. And I don't care if anyone thinks i'm miserable or feels obliged to diagnose my psychological problems or offer me advice on how to be more like them. I'm quite happy thank you. Good day.
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Party pooper, jack nambypants, Dave the depressor, go get a job josh.
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you try to sound smart in your long reply to what you say angers you but really, are you that loanly and bored that this topic really effects you in such a way that you insist on taking time out of your obviously boring life to mention that it angered you and that these people should not be acting idioticly by thus replying with an idiotic responce by anattempt to insult?
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Okay then Ignatius Reilly
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OMG that's beyond AWESOME..:) LMAO
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LOL…vigilante justice indeed. You sir are a dried up old crotchety fart, who needs a hobby. I'll bet five to one the people you contact laugh right in your face.
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Hey I think i read the novel to that!
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u are a fag this kid is leaning shit what have u done with ur life lately
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I wonder whether this site is getting more hits because of the original post or because of the commentary following it…
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Nearly as good as a sign I saw on a classroom door that went like this. " Basic Engrish". Needless to say it was an asian school.
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lol – Kids say the darnedest things.
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just to solve some issues…… I or me? Be careful to use the pronouns I and me, he and him, she and her, we and us, and they and them in the right place. Use I, we, etc. when you are talking about someone who has done something (i.e. who is the subject of the sentence), and use me, us, etc. when you are talking about someone who has had something done to them (i.e. who is the object of the sentence). People most often make mistakes over this when they are talking about more than one person: * 'Me and Annie had a dog once'; 'Adrian and me were going out'. In these sentences you should use I, not me, because the two people are the subject in both. 'Annie and I had a dog once'; 'Adrian and I were going out'. * 'Watch Helen and I while we show you'. You need me here, as the object of watch. * 'Everything depends on you and I'. Use me, us, etc. after prepositions. A good guide in cases like these is to see whether the sentence sounds right with only the pronoun. If 'Me had a dog' is wrong, then so is 'Annie and me had a dog'; if you wouldn't say 'Watch I while I show you', you shouldn't say 'Watch Helen and I'. It's right to say 'between you and me', and wrong to say 'between you and I'. This is because a preposition such as 'between' should be followed by an object pronoun such as 'me', 'him', 'her', and 'us' rather than a subject pronoun such as 'I', 'he', 'she', and 'we'.
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This is pushing it. Most laugh at themselves when they find out what the actual translation is of something they write. I took spanish for 3 years and although it is difficult to learn a new language and yes it is not "nice" to make fun, it is also not hurting anyone. Much of the fun in learning anything new is to be able to laugh at yourself when you screw up.
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You have no idea how common that name is so therefore you have no right to say this is disrespectful. This name could be as popular as "Joe". It could also be a nickname for all you know. When I was in high school I hardly ever put my full name on any document that I turned in to my teachers.
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I agree. And you also have to think about how the human race creates humor. Most are created by something someone did. You people need to get over it and learn to sit back and laugh, because I can tell you, there are at least 10 people everyday talking about you and making fun of you.
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Fuck off. No I would NOT mind if someone posted this if it was my child. Its harmless and he said nothing other than it was a paper from a student in Japan. Yest the childs name is on the paper but who gives a fuck. 100,000 other people have that same fucking name.
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But Kelly, Milla is at least an able communicator. You are not.
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UNDERWARE??? you can't even write in your own language, dumbass
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We’re no strangers to love, You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of, You wouldnt get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling, Gotta make you understand… Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. We’ve known each other for so long Your heart’s been aching But you’re too shy to say it. Inside we both know what’s been going on, We know the game and we’re gonna play it. Annnnnd if you ask me how I’m feeling, Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see… Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Give you up. give you up. Give you up, give you up. Never gonna give Never gonna give, give you up. Never gonna give Never gonna give, give you up. We’ve known each other for so long Your heart’s been aching But you’re too shy to say it. Inside we both know what’s been going on, We know the game and we’re gonna play it. I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling, Gotta make you understand… Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
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in beautiful life the world opens to a new splendour of nature take a grip of steering
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ValleyGurrl has a valid point. You lack the basic thing that makes humans advanced. An IQ.
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LMAO. FOBs are awsome. so hilarious and well stupid all round
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Uh, no. Fag is an uncommon slang term not frequently used, and eraser/rubber are interchangable. We .call jelly jam and jello jelly though. ;3 Chips are crisps are fries are chips, hahaha/
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Exactly. I once accidentally wrote 'I ate london' in French. Hilarity ensued.
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Then learn to spell, or use spell check.
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LOL…….>RICKROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ps: the comments of some of the liberal lefty bleeding heart twats on here are even more funny than the original post…. peace out!
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Be-Jesus and I've read some bollocks on this internet thing but this shit just takes the biscuit. The student's essay was obviously faked 'cos no teacher would put it on here for pricks like you to laugh at it. But the best part was all the illiterate fuckers trying to correct each others English. If it appeared on television as a sit-com you would switch it off for being nonsense. Go away and do volunteering work in some remote place like Alaska.
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wow. i have comment-overload. + english in england is always the 'correct english' because it is english! i hate the way america takes our language, mispells our words + continues to claim they speak english, when it is clearly american. i must stop wasting my time like this : )
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ahaha, so true , Our men love panties …….
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I'm almost 100% sure this doesn't belong to this person. It's all over the internet. And btw pants in Japanese means underwear.
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ValleyGurrl has a valid point… and she loves PB
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My Mother is a Tractor – that was the most original claim any of my Japanese students made. It was so funny I made it the title of my book.
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Bless that kid, nothing abnormal about that. Who knows if the teacher’s got the hots for his students as was asked by little Suguru. Soft lad never bothered to comment on that.
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i get excited when girls pants are seen.
the teacher DOES like.
LOL
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A friend of mine taught English in Korea for a year. More than likely, that essay is real. And hilarious.
My uncle recently showed me a letter that I wrote to him when I was 10 or 11. And while English is my first and only language, it was nearly as nonsensical as the Japanese one.
I don’t think the author of the post meant to mock the Japanese, I think he just meant to mock kids learning English (which is OK, maybe?).
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it is you’re, as in you are. Not your, which is for possession of an object or thing.
also this essay rocks.
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Such drama over a simple bit of humour! It occurs to me the people who are offended by this might be misinterpreting why it is funny. The people who are laughing are not thinking “Haha, what a stupid kid!”. This is not ridiculing the student. The humour is in the missteps everyone makes when learning a new language applied to the subject of pants. That really is, without question, harmless fun. Feel offended for this boy all you want, but realise he is likely not actually offended himself.
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