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Meowwow
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: Hung hom cheap accomodation august |
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| I've been offered a SNET position in a school around hung hom. They give 5,300HK$ a month for accomodation. they will arrange the accomodation but then i have to pay big fines if i want to leave before the years out.. also the accomodation they arrange is a typical new asian studio. i was hoping to either sharea flat or arrange my own bigger room in a n old building - i really don't like these little asian studios, had one before in seoul and seen my friends in HK. Is it possible to get anything like this in this area on shorter term (eg 6 months) rent agreement? any cgood sites for flat hunting this area? |
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jwbhomer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Accommodation...English teacher... You should be looking for ACCOMMODATION. |
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Meowwow
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| thanks for that.. i'm afraid i'm one of the people you hate who doesn't take everything they do completely seriously. Doesn't stop me being a good teacher actually, but my spelling does suck... and i have no qualification for teaching (so u can hate me a little more) luckily people tend to be blinded by the oxford degree.. what can i say, people are shallow... |
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h-train
Joined: 10 Mar 2007
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Location: 26 miles from Bahrain
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| jwbhomer wrote: |
| Accommodation...English teacher... You should be looking for ACCOMMODATION. |
What a tool. |
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11:59
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Location: Hong Kong: The 'Pearl of the Orient'
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: |
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On the SNET scheme you will get some $13,000 a month for accommodation, not $5,300.
And I think spelling is as important to an English teacher as basic arithmetic is to a Maths teacher. |
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h-train
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| 11:59 wrote: |
On the SNET scheme you will get some $13,000 a month for accommodation, not $5,300.
And I think spelling is as important to an English teacher as basic arithmetic is to a Maths teacher. |
Yes, but this is a message board and not a scholarly publication. I read your post where you were critiquing your friend's spoken English and was quite surprised. I doubt I would want to be friends with a person who subconsciously (or consciously) corrects my English every time I speak. This seems an activity for the self-important and judgmental.
I work with a very well-educated woman who graduated from Oxford. She often says things like "Oh, that was well fun, mate!" I don't dissect the grammar and present it to her as a question of her intelligence. |
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anninhk
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I don't think this can be an EDB SNET position as I don't think any schools offer accommodation as part of the package.
The degree from Oxford mustn't be in English as I can't imagine why anyone who was qualified would take a job which only offered $5300 for housing - what must the salary be like? |
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11:59
Joined: 31 Aug 2006
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Location: Hong Kong: The 'Pearl of the Orient'
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| h-train wrote: |
| 11:59 wrote: |
On the SNET scheme you will get some $13,000 a month for accommodation, not $5,300.
And I think spelling is as important to an English teacher as basic arithmetic is to a Maths teacher. |
Yes, but this is a message board and not a scholarly publication. I read your post where you were critiquing your friend's spoken English and was quite surprised. I doubt I would want to be friends with a person who subconsciously (or consciously) corrects my English every time I speak. This seems an activity for the self-important and judgmental. |
I'd love to know which post of mine that is supposed to be. I'd love to see it. My guess is I was not, in fact, offering a critique of a friend's spoken language, but was most likely making another (wholly unrelated) point.
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| I work with a very well-educated woman who graduated from Oxford. She often says things like "Oh, that was well fun, mate!" I don't dissect the grammar and present it to her as a question of her intelligence. |
And nor should you, there is after all nothing ungrammatical with the above, especially not from a linguist�s descriptive perspective (a language is as it is used by its native speakers). But what, pray tell, is the relevance of this here? No one has dissected any grammar and no one has called into question anyone's intelligence. Rather, all I and others have done is to express our view that for teachers of English � no matter whether on an informal discussion board or in an academic paper � spelling is as important as basic arithmetic is to a teacher of maths. And this brings me to your point of the forum not being a scholarly publication. Imagine if in a corner baker's a maths teacher said that $2 plus $3 amounted to $7, and, upon being corrected, the same teacher retorted with 'Well, it's only a corner shop, not an academic maths paper'. It would certainly raise a few eyebrows! A maths teacher should do maths well no matter when or where he is � he shouldn't even have to think about it. |
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h-train
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My intent is not to ridicule or call you out; I have learned a lot from reading your posts. I was referring to your talking about the British/American dichotomy in spoken English and your rowing buddy. You're right. Spelling errors are spelling errors; I just don't feel correcting them adds much to the forum. That's just my two cents.
I bet he'll never forget how to spell "accommodation" again. |
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once again
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As spelling is one part of the written representation of language, and not the language itself, wouldn�t it be more accurate to say that a maths teacher that wrote one hundred as �10�, would be making the same kind of mistake as a teacher spelling things incorrectly?
Furthermore, incorrect spelling often does not hinder communication and still allows meaning to be conveyed accurately, whereas basis arithmetic mistakes truly will change the accuracy of the outcome.
I don�t think the analogy holds very well at all. |
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A'Moo
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| h-train wrote: |
| 11:59 wrote: |
On the SNET scheme you will get some $13,000 a month for accommodation, not $5,300.
And I think spelling is as important to an English teacher as basic arithmetic is to a Maths teacher. |
Yes, but this is a message board and not a scholarly publication. I read your post where you were critiquing your friend's spoken English and was quite surprised. I doubt I would want to be friends with a person who subconsciously (or consciously) corrects my English every time I speak. This seems an activity for the self-important and judgmental.
I work with a very well-educated woman who graduated from Oxford. She often says things like "Oh, that was well fun, mate!" I don't dissect the grammar and present it to her as a question of her intelligence. |
As opposed to the plethora of message boards littering the net', you will find that Dave's has a lot of individuals with a LOT of time on their hands...
Cut, paste, critique, paragraphs of either useless nonsense or articles that have already been read in major publications... |
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