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whome? · Joined: 13 Nov 2009

This is mainly for Uni profs, I guess.

Q: tell me about how one piece of technology will have changed by the year 2030.

A: "And language will translation from mini earphone. Earphone is very mini. It is not see. And it is very lightweight. It destroy language intestinal wall. Anyone will use it."

vaticanhotline · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:04 am Post subject:

This is actually from one of my students back home, who was a first year undergrad in English, so I'm not sure if it qualifies, but it is hilarious (it's also important to keep in mind that she was a girl). I remember it word for word because it was one of the first essays I had to correct. The question was about the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.

"Oedipus and his father were like two ships, that found in his mother the same wide harbour".
My reaction was equal parts Shocked

and

Luvlykylady · Joined: 01 Dec 2009 Location: Currently South Korea

Whenever I told some of my students that I would be leaving one them started screaming.......

"NO TEACHER NO!!!! My candy!!!! My candy is going back to the US!!!!!"

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

About 50 different iterations of "I like play computer game."

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

"Teacher, I did bad on test."

Turns out these are the same students that slept or talked during the "free study period" I gave them last week.

abigolblackman · Joined: 06 Jun 2009

A: "Teacher. No class. Movie!"
B: "No! Teacher. No class. Redtube!"
A: "Yeah! Teacher. Redtube!"
Me: Shocked

"You guys are crazy, watch it at home on your own time."

Later when talking to my head co-teacher and vice-principal:

VP: <in Korean> "Don't teach the kids porno websites."
Me: "What? I didn't teach them, they already knew."
CT: "I was there, you taught them!"
Me: Rolling Eyes

abigolblackman