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November 30, 2005
The Perils of the English Language
I like my international Basic Writers:
"We need to be aware, and then we can have a good experiment with a lot of boys!"
Fatal flaw: "experiment" and "experience" look awfully similar
"I find this work to be pertinent to what I saw as a child in Haiti."
Me: Wow, "pertinent." Good word.
Student: It is from French. I use it every time I can because I am sure of what it means.
"We all sat around the fire, singing, talking, and having good intercourse."
Fatal flaw: if you look up the Russian word for "fellowship" in the dictionary, the given English equivalent is "intercourse"
But what I like even more is that they laugh at these mistakes themselves...and then keep trying.
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