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Pet Peeves about TEFLers
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Henry_Cowell



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yaramaz wrote:
Not quite sure what you mean, dear thrifty- I am writing from Dubai, where I am spending october, as well as heading to Oman at the end of the week for about 10 days. Spent half of September in Switzerland. Didn't take the bus to either place. And hey, am picking up a new laptop computer while I am here. Oh god, it's so hard being a tefler these days!

Exactly.

I think that thrifty should be most "peeved" by those TEFLers (like himself) who have never lifted a finger to escape the bottom rung of the ladder. Every profession has bottom feeders. But mature people quickly climb up from the entry-level jobs in language schools and so-called colleges and unis. The chronic losers never make that transition.
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jammish



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Henry_Cowell wrote:
yaramaz wrote:
Not quite sure what you mean, dear thrifty- I am writing from Dubai, where I am spending october, as well as heading to Oman at the end of the week for about 10 days. Spent half of September in Switzerland. Didn't take the bus to either place. And hey, am picking up a new laptop computer while I am here. Oh god, it's so hard being a tefler these days!

Exactly.

I think that thrifty should be most "peeved" by those TEFLers (like himself) who have never lifted a finger to escape the bottom rung of the ladder. Every profession has bottom feeders. But mature people quickly climb up from the entry-level jobs in language schools and so-called colleges and unis. The chronic losers never make that transition.


And how is Nathan these days?
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bigbadsuzie



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
On the subject of "bottom feeder schools" I think Thrifty has found his niche there maybe he could try working somewhere else,somewhere better,can't be that difficult .
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lovelace



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thrifty, you don't like the people who 'treat TEFL seriously' and you don't like TEFLers without reasonable qualifications. Isn't getting a 'reasonable' qualification taking the job a bit, er, seriously?
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got my qualifications when I was younger and way more naive.
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Henry_Cowell



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
thrifty wrote:
I got my qualifications [including a DELTA] when I was younger and way more naive.
But he was too lazy to make the most of them. Now he's stuck with the bad decisions of his youth.
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Henry_Cowell wrote:
thrifty wrote:
I got my qualifications [including a DELTA] when I was younger and way more naive.
Now he's stuck with the bad decisions of his youth.


True : Crying or Very sad
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scot47



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
To show that the 'a' and the 'i' are sounded separately and not as a diphthong. Didn't you learn anything in school ?

The 'double dot' is a diaerisis.
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Entrailicus wrote:
How do you pronounce diaerisis?


diaerisis
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
scot47 wrote:
To show that the 'a' and the 'i' are sounded separately and not as a diphthong. Didn't you learn anything in school ?

The 'double dot' is a diaerisis.


Scot-we went to school in the eighties when the lefty teachers had decided that teaching grammar was prescriptive. You no doubt had a good education and learnt things like the parts of speech and did not have to go to a comprehensive where there was no streaming and idiots as well as kids who wanted to learn were put into the same classes which were chaos.
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dmb



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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idiots as well as kids who wanted to learn were put into the same classes which were chaos.
so how did the kids who wanted to learn react to you Wink

I went to school in the 80s and had streaming.
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
dmb wrote:
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idiots as well as kids who wanted to learn were put into the same classes which were chaos.
so how did the kids who wanted to learn react to you Wink

I don't want to throw this in your face but you went to an expensive private school that followed the English system. Of course you had streaming.

In my comp. you were a bender if you wanted to learn.

I went to school in the 80s and had streaming.
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dmb



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Flock of seagulls? the band? Didn't they have mullets?
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yaramaz



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
They had that bizarroid forward combing, like a wave breaking on their foreheads, or a cow tongue.
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yaramaz



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's with the hand gestures? Are they deaf or trying to be symbolic?
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