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rumdiary
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Overrated: Internet wars
Underrated: Derailing threads |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
Overrated: Internet wars
Underrated: Derailing threads |
 It happens so naturally sometimes. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Overrated: You don�t need to know the local language to teach English.
Underrated: Learn the local language so you can teach English better.
Overrated: 80%
Underrated: 20%
Or closely related�
Overrated: 10,000 spoons
Underrated: a knife
Overrated: Things going according to plan
Underrated: Plans blowing up in your face
Overrated: The destination
Underrated: The journey
Overrated: security
Underrated: happiness
Overrated: mind
Underrated: matter
Overrated: Your world view
Underrated: The world�s view of you
Overrated: family as an institution / planned parenthood
Underrated: family as an intrinsic consequence
Overrated: pointing the finger at oppressors
Underrated: pointing the finger at yourself for allowing others to oppress you
Overrated: immortality
Underrated: mortality
Overrated: knowledge gained from other people/sources
Underrated: knowledge gained from your own experiences
Overrated: the right way
Underrated: the wrong way
Overrated: understanding others
Underrated: understanding yourself
Overrated: understanding
Underrated: acceptance |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Overrated: Drinking coffee out at a coffee shop chain.
Underrated: Drinking a good cup of tea at home. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
Overrated: 10,000 spoons
Underrated: a knife |
A hunter back home can skin and cut up a full-grown buck deer with a spoon! Knives are overrated. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
| isitts wrote: |
Overrated: 10,000 spoons
Underrated: a knife |
A hunter back home can skin and cut up a full-grown buck deer with a spoon! Knives are overrated. |
Not sure that's related to meaning of the expression, but thanks for that! lol |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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overrated: "irony"
underrated: satire |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I actually wasn't thinking of irony, but I guess that is the way that's used. 
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overrated: "irony"
underrated: satire |
True. |
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metalhead
Joined: 18 May 2010
Location: Toilet
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
Overrated: You don�t need to know the local language to teach English.
Underrated: Learn the local language so you can teach English better.
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What does this mean? While I agree with learning the local language, you shouldn't use any Korean in your classes, unless all the good EFL certificate courses are telling lies. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:30 am Post subject: |
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over rated- Saving Money
under rated- spending money |
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rooster_2006
Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| metalhead wrote: |
| isitts wrote: |
Overrated: You don�t need to know the local language to teach English.
Underrated: Learn the local language so you can teach English better.
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What does this mean? While I agree with learning the local language, you shouldn't use any Korean in your classes, unless all the good EFL certificate courses are telling lies. |
"Good" EFL certificate programs only teach you to do that because your classes might be heterogenous (many different L1s). If you're teaching English to immigrants in the UK (I think you know which cert I'm talking about) then speaking 100% English is necessary.
However, we are not teaching in a multicultural society (we are teaching in a society with ONLY ONE L1), and yes, sometimes using the L1 in class is the only way to handle certain situations. You know, it's funny -- the Koreans tell us over and over again "only use English in your classes, never use the local language."
Yet at Yonsei University Korean Language Institute, the largest Korean eohakdang in the world, they have no problem using English when teaching foreigners Korean at the beginning level.
Why the double standard?
My current buxiban here in Taiwan lets me speak Chinese. Thank God. Because there'd be no other way to get through to those large classes of six- and seven-year-olds (without a co-teacher) if I couldn't.
If my school wants me to speak 100% English, then they can give me a co-teacher to explain directions and maintain discipline. If they're too cheap to do that, then I have no other option but to use the local language, or my class will be anarchy. End of story. |
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Tamada
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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Overrated: On the Border (Mexican restaurant).
Underrated: Reading a good book whilst taking a dump. |
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tanklor1
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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Overrated: The word "famous".
Underrated: The word "popular". |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Taking dump after eating food from that restaurant?
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Overrated: On the Border (Mexican restaurant).
Underrated: Reading a good book whilst taking a dump. |
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rooster_2006
Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Overrated: talking about how materialism isn't the way to happiness, then proceeding to go and work a 60-hour week for that paycheck so you can buy a 3D TV, a BMW, and a McMansion
Underrated: actually living non-materialistically, instead of just talking about it |
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