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[Deconstructor]

[Gregor]

Wanted to delete this post. Couldn't. So I edited it to this.

[Guy Courchesne]

Hmmm...the only thing I've seen in this thread was a strong impulse to gang up on someone. Gallnatry, chivalry, humility...none of that. Chinese, black, white, Martian, who cares?

How to kick someone when they are down. Now there's an EFL lesson we natives could teach. We're damn good at it.

[Gregor]

Man, oh man.
That was the coolest thread EVER. Did one of y'all REALLY turn him in to the Chinese authorities?? Where did he go? That was AWESOME. I'm at work (in China, as well), and I just sat here, on the clock, reading the whole thread in one sitting. British reminded me of some weird Batman villan, with his cryptic threats. That was just GREAT. We never did find out what his real job in China is, or his secret identity. Not that it would have been true, but how true is Batman?

Yeah, Guy, not that it matters one whit, but there's no way that guy was NOT Chinese, unless he was Korean (I don't know one way or another about Korean English mistakes). I mean, I could even tell that he wasn't Japanese.
I miss him already though. That was great fun. There's GOT to be a sequel. If one of you ESOL Super Friends (and your very NAMES sound like Super Friends - Carnac, the Deconstructor, ShapeSphere...all vs The British, aka British Bull-Dog - can I play? My name isn't so cool, but I can be Gree-gor)...if one of you actually defeated him, then you may have made the place safer for native English speakers, but do you remember Captain Amazing, from "Mystery Men"? Who are you going to fight NOW???

I know - I'll be Gr�gor, The British's Mexican, pretend-American friend:
You e-veel Ingleses! I shall avenge mi amigo! I shall upstand thee law, and I shall remove ustedes de la earth, for to restore honor de hees nombre!

Naw. I'm just not that good. Plus, wrong team - I really AM American.
Oh well. Maybe he'll bust out of Language Jail and return one day...

[Gregor]

Aw, Guy,
That's a little strong.
You really ARE avuncular, aren't you. :)
I don't think anyone was kicked while down. That guy did not belong on this forum, he was lying about his identity and nationality (probably out of having a go, or at least for a laugh), and someone correctly pointed out that this IS an English teacher forum. Anyone who comes on here without at least the basic understanding of grammar, syntax and so on, can well expect a bit of abuse. And THAT guy just kept coming back.
That wasn't FUNNY??

Maybe you are not 100% convinced, like those of us in China are, that the guy was really Chinese. There's absolutely no question in my mind about that, and I spotted it from the first message.
Well, OK, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but with the second it was an unavoidable conclusion. I would assume that his spoken English is pretty high level. But the guy was Chinese. No doubt about it.

[dyak]

However much he was piled onto, British was looking for that reaction, his posts were deliberately antagonistic. I wouldn't have joined in but for my own frustrations with Chinese students. I have the greatest respect for anyone who teaches there, if the students who wash up here are anything to go by.

I can't work out where it goes wrong for (the majority of) them. I've had them at elememtary, intermediate and advanced levels but they always lack the concept of speaking correct English. They seem to come ready-made with fossilised errors you've no chance of correcting because a) they don't seem to respect English - to want to speak it correctly and b) they never listen.

Ah, maybe it's me...

[ShapeSphere]

I thought and had sincerely hoped this had been buried and laid to rest. Let's all just move on and not allow British to cause further divisions and arguments amongst the forum. That may have been part of his plan, although I don't know what he was thinking, don't want to, and am pretty sure he didn't know either.

He's admitted he was a fake, so the game's over. We should respect that he's come clean and look for fun elsewhere.

I wish him good luck with whatever he's decided to do with his life - or should I say what his parents have decided he must do - and I wish him good luck with his studies in English, because frankly he needs all the luck he can get.

[spiral78]

There are some posts recently from a 'mandu' - who sounds scarily like British.......giving advice to Newbies, no less!
Oh, well, you're right, it's better to get over it. Forget I mentioned it.

[dyak]

[carnac]

In case you hadn't noticed (and you will recognise the tune)

Ding, dong, this thread is dead!
(This old thread, this wicked old thread!)
Ding, dong, this bad old thread is deeeeeead!

And Dorothy clicks her heels and we all go back to the General Forum.

[Deconstructor]

[Guy Courchesne]

Nostalgia for what?

[niko60]

British,
I hate to break the news to you, but Britain has ceased to to dictate, or have any influence over the education, language style, or Culture of the so called " Heathen Colonies" since they got their asses kicked by? Ah what the hell I'll leave it up to you to to figure out who was first. There is justice in the world.

[carnac]

No, no, no! We have to kill this one off! Dead, finished! It has gone to meet its Maker! It has finally succumbed. It is an ex-thread! If you hadn't nailed its feet to the perch it'd be pushin' up the daisies! It is defunct! It has demised! Rigor mortis has set in! It has expired! Brain-dead! Do not resusicitate! Gone! Finished!
And no, it's NOT pining for the fjiords. It is dead. Dead! DEAD I tell you, hahahahahaha!!!!!! (on the other hand, if "England" were to return from the North Korean border..?)

[dyak]

Now I feel nostalgic.