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ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

The "saving face" thing drives me crazy on some days... I'm trained to deal with it in negotiations... but it's a different animal all together in daily life.

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Can the mods make a rule saying that it is forbidden to correct grammar and spelling in posts? We all (most anyway) get paid to teach English several hours a day... the last thing we wanna see when we get back is being criticized for easing up on the book perfect English.

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Hey, where I'm from, you better say "wanna" or we'll beat you down.

I've been teaching my kids the concept of combining two words into an "informal contraction".

wanna, gonna, shoulda, coulda...

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Write "want to".
Say "wanna".
Do you write and say "etc"?
Do you say "et cetera"?

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:57 am Post subject:

Make sure that they gather the concept of informal.

Y'all people from Maryland sure do talk crazy.

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Yes, I teach a difference between accepted and slang.

Koreans pick up on this idea very well given how codified it is in Korean.

All I have to do is say, "Now kiddies... to wonjongnim, you say 'want to' but to your friends, you say 'wanna'. Aigayso?"

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

"aigayso"

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

Ahresseo?

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

wanna, gunna, etc.. is ok when you are teaching the low form of english (american) but we all know what we should say to have these words spoken correctly... Razz

JennyJJ · Joined: 01 Mar 2003

A couple previous posts (re: "wanna") stated:

the concept of combining two words into an "informal contraction".

teaching the low form of english (american)

Please don�t teach this kind of garbage to your students.

�Wanna� is not an �informal contraction", nor is it �low form� of English. It is simply a reduction that occurs naturally in normal rapidly spoken speech. For reference see the pronunciation book Sound Advantage page 103 - or any other decent pronunciation book. Some teachers overemphasize the pronunciation instead of teaching it as a reduction. Don�t teach it as slang or �trash� language � just acknowledge the reduction and how it occurs.

Yes, for the Brits, this is more a feature of what might be called (by some authors) �relaxed� American pronunciation, but buzz off with this �low form� stuff.

Teachers at the university level spend an inordinate amount of time correcting �stuff� learned at the hogwans when their students were younger. Please don�t add to it.

Love,

Jenny

peppergirl · Joined: 07 Dec 2003

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

i dont teach anything but 'want to' and 'going to'.

there are right and wrong words used everywhere.. wanna and gunna are wrong.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea