OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
A teacher I work with, who is otherwise an exceptional teacher, never
uses the word 'an.' Instead he talks about, "a apple, a A on a exam." Drives me nuts. Linda PATCHogue, NY |
OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
akkk! I am busy teaching my kids about *an* which is more complicated as
most of the English they know I taught them in the first place and they speak Dutch at school. one would expect people to do better especially teachers however all the things I have read in this thread have made me cringe. I did once correct my English teacher when he said something wrong and then said: "that's right isn't it jessamy" I told the truth and said no and ended up with an angry teacher so I walked out of the class and headed to the principals office , complained and refused to take anymore English lessons telling him that my English was miles better than the teachers despite me being dyslexic. 6 weeks of no English later the teacher came and apologised to me in public :-D and he never asked me if he was right again HAHAHA -- Jessamy Queen of Chocolate Squishies (and Occasional Liquorice Ones) In The Netherlands Take out: _I love the colour_ to reply. www.geocities.com/jessamy_thompson http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A teacher I work with, who is otherwise an exceptional teacher, never uses the word 'an.' Instead he talks about, "a apple, a A on a exam." Drives me nuts. Linda PATCHogue, NY |
OT: The Congenitally Grammar-Picky
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I grew up down on the border w/ Mexico. The Hispanic migrant workers' children (or migrant working students) usually didn't show up to school until late in October; missing the first 2 months of school makes for too much work to catch up. The hardest subject to catch up on was (usually) "language arts." It just goes too fast. And we take it for granted when we grow up in English-speaking homes that the subject will be taught at our level. I still admire those non-English speakers who do put up w/ all the weirdness involved in learning "English." Which makes it all the more irritating to hear those who have had all the advantages of a "U.S. English" education speaking it so poorly. Some of the ignorance is a choice. I ain't no expert, either. ;-) If "it goes without saying", why say it anyway? ;-P Ragmop/Sandy--ready to Finish another quilt but the beauty of the outdoors is calling, calling me... On 2/22/07 10:04 PM, in article , "Ginger in CA" wrote: I volunteer teach adult literacy, and for the most part my student is a person whose native language is not English. I teach one-on-one so we are able to really get into the meaty discussions about grammar and how English is such a strange language. I usually end up teaching not only the reading but also the speaking aspect of English. Until I listened to the blunders and laughed along with my students, I couldn't appreciate how much effort they go to, to learn the language! Ginger in CA On Feb 22, 6:51 pm, Sandy Ellison wrote: Howdy! "I could care less" which is wrong-wrong-wrong. The expression is "I care so little I couldn't possibly care less!" or "I couldn't care less!" ;-P |
Off Topic OT: The Congenitally Grammar-Picky
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BobDole syndrome: Mr.Dole is a U.S. politician with a habit of speaking of himself in the 3rd person. Reporter: "Mr.Dole, do you have a plan for dealing with the lack of health care for children?" Mr.Dole: "Bob Dole has a plan. Bob Dole wants to count those children and find out how many don't have insurance. That's what Bob Dole will do." g Might me a hangover from Mr.Nixon who used a similar technique: "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more." Megan: "just for the sin of owning something" -- thank you! ;-D Ragmop/Sandy http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/ks.html On 2/23/07 4:16 AM, in article , "Sally Swindells" wrote: Sandy Ellison wrote: Howdy! "I could care less" which is wrong-wrong-wrong. The expression is "I care so little I couldn't possibly care less!" or "I couldn't care less!" ;-P Or 'myself' instead of 'me'. Perhaps people are so full of their own importance that they choose a more important sounding name! -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk) http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin |
OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
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"Jessamy" wrote: akkk! I am busy teaching my kids about *an* which is more complicated as most of the English they know I taught them in the first place and they speak Dutch at school. one would expect people to do better especially teachers however all the things I have read in this thread have made me cringe. I did once correct my English teacher when he said something wrong and then said: "that's right isn't it jessamy" I told the truth and said no and ended up with an angry teacher so I walked out of the class and headed to the principals office , complained and refused to take anymore English lessons telling him that my English was miles better than the teachers despite me being dyslexic. 6 weeks of no English later the teacher came and apologised to me in public :-D and he never asked me if he was right again HAHAHA Good for you, Jessamy! My elder DD once had a middle school English teacher (by no stretch of the imagination was he either an English teacher or any kind of teacher) who gave a test and graded it incorrectly. When DD brought it home, I just about had apoplexy (isn't that a wonderful word? G) and corrected his corrections, explaining in writing why his corrections were wrong. DD took the test back to school, as required, and the teacher was so "threatened" that he never again sent any papers home. Needless to say, I complained to the administration. This was a teacher who had been bounced around from one school to another because of his incompetence, but no one could fire him. :( The children paid the penalty, sadly. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
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Megan Zurawicz wrote: My favorite example of that is "off tin". T in "often" has been silent how many centuries? when these folks decide to be "cultured-er than thou" and studiously enunciate it....... --pig I'm with you on that one, Piglet! Aaaarrrrgghhh! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
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"CATS" wrote: " I am eruditerer than you" rofl But then the UK and Commonwealth countries would have a laugh over anomalies like Lieutenant US = loo-ten-ant UK = lef-ten-ant -- Cheryl & the Cats in OZ o o o o ( Y ) ( Y ) Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau And it's really a French word.... ;) -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
OT: The Congenitally Grammar-Picky
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"Ginger in CA" wrote: I volunteer teach adult literacy, and for the most part my student is a person whose native language is not English. I teach one-on-one so we are able to really get into the meaty discussions about grammar and how English is such a strange language. I usually end up teaching not only the reading but also the speaking aspect of English. Until I listened to the blunders and laughed along with my students, I couldn't appreciate how much effort they go to, to learn the language! Ginger in CA Ginger, I ended up teaching a lot of English when I was teaching French -- purely accidentally. g It was always odd to me to hear one of my Spanish-speaking students ask why something was said in a certain way in French, when it didn't translate that way into English. My stock response was to ask them how to say a similar thing in Spanish, which was almost always a direct parallel to the French. Then I'd say it was *English* that was so strange. LOL! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
OT:Bad English teachers (was OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt)
"Sandy" wrote in message ... Good for you, Jessamy! My elder DD once had a middle school English teacher (by no stretch of the imagination was he either an English teacher or any kind of teacher) who gave a test and graded it incorrectly. Boy, does that bring back memories! :) My middle school English teacher (who also wasn't a teacher of any kind) used to make us do book reports. No problem there. We had to start out saying what kind of book it was -- novel, history, etc. One of the books I read was called "Words of the Myths", which is a book about words that derive from Greek and Roman myths. I asked my mom what kind of book it was and she suggested "philology". I looked the word up and agreed. I hand in my paper, and it's returned with philology marked as misspelled. I marched over to the teacher and complained that I knew the word was *not* misspelled, as I had copied the spelling directly from the dictionary when I looked it up. The teacher shrugged and said "Oh, I didn't know what it meant so I marked it misspelled." What an inspiration she was to the young people of Sacramento. The one good thing to come from the incident is that I will never forget the meaning or spelling of philology. *evil grin* -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://fabrictramp.typepad.com/fabric_tramping/ remove the obvious to reply |
OT Grammar Book New Log Cabin Quilt
"Sandy" wrote in message ... In article , Megan Zurawicz wrote: My favorite example of that is "off tin". T in "often" has been silent how many centuries? when these folks decide to be "cultured-er than thou" and studiously enunciate it....... --pig I'm with you on that one, Piglet! Aaaarrrrgghhh! While I'm not guilty of that particular crime, I did often (used intentionally) mispronounce words as a child. Why? Because I had learned them from reading. I'd look up the meaning, but the pronunciation guides in dictionaries mystified me, so I didn't always have the correct pronunciation stuck in my head. I was also guilty of learning a lot of words just by context, without looking them up. A local hospital had a sign that read "Permission to pass over revocable at any time." For years I wondered exactly what type of cable a revo-cable was, and why the hospital felt the need to post a sign saying it was okay to pass over it. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://fabrictramp.typepad.com/fabric_tramping/ remove the obvious to reply |
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