My students are geniuses. Geniuses, I tell you, because this is what other people have to contend with.

Thank you, Alex, for the link. I’ll be exuberantly happy to see my students tomorrow because whatever they do, it won’t be that. Or maybe it will but I won’t understand it because their Spanish won’t allow them to express it. 

4 responses to “What a Relief”

  1. Sugs Avatar
    Sugs

    Very funny and were these culled from school children or university students? I do hope it wasn’t the university students, half of them sound illiterate!

    It reminds me of a hilarious book I read when I was at school. It was a parody of the way English history was taught in the UK –
    “1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates.”
    It was first published in 1930 in Punch, a humorous magazine.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      University. . .

      And yes, this kind of thing happens all the time.

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  2. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    After a revival of infantile commerce slowly creeped (sic) into Europe, merchants appeared
    Straight from the Clarissa sentence generator!

    :p

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      I’m more of a “the fact that it’s true is confirmed by the fact that it’s true” person myself. 🙂

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