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[Snowkr]

Happy New Year, everyone.

Does anyone out there have any serious New Year resolutions that they intend to uphold for 08? Just really curious.

I've been into this forum for a few years but it seems like there has been more unrest and frustration over the past 4-5 months (maybe rightfully so) than I've ever seen since joining.

I think it would be so cool if foreign teachers here came up with one resolution relevant to living and working in Korea... and even cooler if we ALL stuck to it.

Idiotic as it may sound, does anyone have any ideas?

My high school students made a resolution yesterday... "to CHILL OUT and BE COOL" for 2008. I kid you not... this is what they said. I was happy to see their acquisition of our vernacular being put to use. Now I'll hold them to it.

[Bibbitybop]

I find if you need to change something in your life and have to wait for a specific date to do it, you probably won't change. It just makes you feel better by thinking about changing while you look back on your year and regret you didn't change already.

I have a couple things myself I wish I'd change, but I don't and accept who I am. But all these dead monkeys in my bedroom closet will have to be thrown out someday.

[moosehead]

yeah, i'm promising myself not to have any more meltdowns in taxis my new mantra is just to tell them to eat sh*t and die

i already tried it the other night it worked really well i felt so good!!

[moosehead]

matter of fact that felt so good i might just say it to everyone that pisses me off in 2008.....

[sojourner1]

Get a new job or trade, whichever life calls for.

[soju pizza]

My resolution is to never start threads in the wrong forum. You can try it too, and we'll see who wins!

Off with his head!


Mods, make this a sticky!

[Poktanju]

If we made a sticky for every time someone asked, the whole first page of the forums would be a wall of stickies. This is why we created the 'sticky request/discussion thread', where you can make your case and see if your sticky idea has support from others: http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=85822

[sadsac]

To leave!

[soju pizza]

Definitions of irony on the Web:

sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a ...
incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Irony, from the Greek εἴρων (eiron), is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony (album)

"A. . . perception of inconsistency, [usually but not always humorous], in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance. . . [V]erbal irony. . . ...
writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng216/216terms.html

A meaning (often contradictory) concealed behind the apparent meaning of a word or phrase.
www.let.rug.nl/usa/lit/chap10.htm

An intentional contradiction between what something appears to mean and what it really means. Irony is normally conveyed through contradictions between either what is said and what is meant or appearance and reality. ...
rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/lit-terms.html

refers to the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. The three kinds of irony used most often in these standards are situational, dramatic, and verbal.
www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards2001/la/cilaglossary.htm