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veiledsentiments
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Just ignore this Larsson person... who is a China poster who wanders over to the Middle East section now and again. 
VS
(interesting term "non-mixity" ... hadn't seen it before. My dictionary website doesn't accept it. Must be a new usage.) |
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FrenchConnexion
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Thats' my French interfering with my English . Sorry.  |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| FrenchConnexion wrote: |
| Thats' my French interfering with my English . Sorry. |
No need to apologize.  According to 'the google,' it is moving into certain groups of English speakers too. The English language loves nothing more than adopting and/or creating new words.
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indirect.object
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:42 am Post subject: following up |
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| Thanks VS, nomad soul and AmericanAmina for the thoughtful feedback. I had stopped reading this thread but recently did. |
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siologen
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:20 am Post subject: re: well said VS... |
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| ust ignore this Larsson person... who is a China poster who wanders over to the Middle East section now and again. Rolling Eyes |
We might have had the odd disagreement about the state of things in Oman and Sowdy, but on this I agree with you 100 percent. It is not just this larsson poster, for me there is more than one poster, who while living and teaching in East Asia, deem it fit from their "ivory tower" to chime in on the state of education and the job situation for EFL teachers in the gulf region, when some of them have presumably never even visited the region, let alone taught there. |
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indirect.object
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For some reason, I didn't catch some of the comments on this thread about boys sitting next to girls.
In my Saudi Arabian experience, separate seating for males and females has been common in religiously conservative environments (like institutions registered with the state) among older kids and adults, but not so much among young children.
In places such as Jordan, it's very different, I've learned over the past year. The Muslims in Amman generally aren't as strict in that respect, although men naturally respect the dignity of women by affording them a respectful amount of space (in a classroom, for instance).
Among the generality of Muslims around the world, there are different attitudes regarding the degree of interaction that is appropriate between men and women in different contexts.
Sweeping generalizations don't capture the diversity of these communities. |
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