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Samantha
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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Geaaronson wrote:
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| Apparently Melee and I understand English grammar. The rest of you fail |
No argument! The rest of us couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| Samantha wrote: |
The last few messages have inspired me to post an impromptu quiz (all in good fun) to show how confusing English really can be, depending on how it's written and depending on how it's interpreted. 
geaaronson wrote:
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| I too did Segundomano online and got my first student, an attorney who wants 4 hours a week and a boyfriend to boot! And she is a real cutie! |
What did geaaronson mean?
A) He got two students. One student is an attorney. The other student is the attorney's boyfriend.
B) He got one student. She is an attorney. She wants a boyfriend.
C) He got two students. One is an attorney. The other wants to be a boyfriend.
D) All of the above. |
E) He did someone called, 'segundomano' online. This chance encounter earned him a student who is a lawyer, and a boyfriend. The lawyer is really hot.
F) Ironically, as language teachers, we have had a communication breakdown yet again; finding it difficult to switch teacher mode off.
G) Some of us have too much free/office time. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| E) He did someone called, 'segundomano' online. This chance encounter earned him a student who is a lawyer, and a boyfriend. The lawyer is really hot. |
Clearest one yet. But I'll add a bit about a boyfriend 'to boot'.
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Samantha
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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Location: Mexican Riviera
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| What appropriate signage for the current grammar quiz! I've booted a boyfriend or two in my time and I'm sure in hindsight I am now in big trouble with the grammar police. |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| geaaronson wrote: |
| Apparently Melee and I understand English grammar. The rest of you fail. |
I think it's more a seeing that the forrest is made up of trees. |
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geaaronson
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: mask |
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Is that a paper mache mask you�re wearing?
Can you tell me much about it? |
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GueroPaz
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Location: Thailand or Mexico
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: |
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So, Melee, how are your twins? Mine are a few km north of Matamoros, and the drunk just got on the wagon, and is studying to become ....drum roll, please....a teacher! 
First guy asks what time it is. Second guy looks at his watch: 1:58.
First guys checks his watch and says, "I have two to two, too."
Back on topic, I'll agree that I didn't understand who got the boyfriend. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: A World of my Own
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| "I have two to two, too." |
Back off topic
A signwriter is painting a sign for the "Rose & Crown pub" but is leaving spaces too big between the words.
An observer tells him:
"The spaces between Rose and and and and and Crown are too big!"
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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My twins are doing great. They turned three in September. English and Spanish are going great but when the nanny speaks Mixteco to them they gabber gibberish back at her 
I think we need more weekends in the village. |
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geaaronson
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: BAB |
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| After a long hiatus, the highly esteemed English wizard Ben Around the Block comes back to life. Welcome aboard, we can always use the good, plain common sense. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| What? Where? |
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MO39
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I second Guy's two questions! Is he posting on another forum? |
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Samantha
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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Location: Mexican Riviera
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Well there was that big old full Harvest Moon hanging in the Mexican sky the other night. Maybe he made a ghostly appearance here for Halloween. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Tim still reads, and keeps in touch by email (maybe also with some of you?)...but posting? A run-in with eclectic made him say 'never again'. |
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