.... He was a shy boy. He couldn't say
elotic words like "sox" and "possy"....
Personally, I'm not too sure who'd be turned on by those words, maybe a homie with a foot fetish?
"Ahh! Gaijin da!" "It's a foreigner!" the kid screamed after rounding the corner of the supermarket aisle and running into me. He quickly turned on his heels and darted off to find his mother. Yes, there was no doubt about it, I was a gaijin, a thing to shock small children and adults alike
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Spelling Mistakes
Today was the last lesson with the students attempting to write funny stories. I had one more to share with you, not because it was a good story, but rather for the way it changed with its spelling errors;
Personally, I'm not too sure who'd be turned on by those words, maybe a homie with a foot fetish?
Personally, I'm not too sure who'd be turned on by those words, maybe a homie with a foot fetish?
Oh my goodness! I'm more surprised by what he wanted to say.
ReplyDeleteYour classes are rated G right? LOL.
TK
Yes! They are supposed to be G-rated. But you know what teenage boys are like when you give them a bit of freedom....
ReplyDeleteThat is priceless.
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff your students came up with.
ReplyDeleteI'm rather curios what made them write those sentences. :)
Love it, love it, love it. I have to hand it to them. At least they're trying to write idiomatic English. I would hate to share my attempts to write in Japanese.
ReplyDeletemaybe he was talking about the Boston Red "Sox" and an old west Possy.
ReplyDeleteIf you try pronouncing it with a broad, drunk Glasgow accent then it kinda works...
ReplyDeleteHey Lisa - Thanks! They do make me laugh most days, though not always for the right reasons...
ReplyDeleteHey Lina - I have 2 words for you - "teenage boys"
Hey Forsythia - Oh yeh... My attempts in Japanese would be awful!
Hey Tornadoes - You could be right! It's just my dirty mind thinking that they were writing about something else.
Hey Chris - Mmmm... my Glasgow accent doesn't seem to be working today.
The funniest thing I have seen from my students was, "The penis..." They meant to write "The pen is..."
ReplyDeleteI cracked up when I saw this and when I told them what it meant they all started to laugh and yell out penis.
Hey yellowman - that's a good one! It would have cracked me up too. Hey.. do you have a blog? I can't seem to link to one for you.
ReplyDeleteGotta love those l/r errors. How many times have teachers heard: "I eat lice everyday"? Wow, humans are closer to primates than previously thought.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty good.
ReplyDeleteLast night, on cable, I watched an elotic movie with lots of possy, but I was disappointed in the lack of sox.
Oh, well...
Hey Cindy! Yes, gotta love the l/r mistakes. I teach pronunciation in my junior high classes and am a nazi with that one!
ReplyDeleteHey Billy - so sorry to hear about your disappointment!
Melanie - Sorry no blog. Just a reader/commenter. :)
ReplyDelete*Commentator. Me speak good Canadian. ;)
ReplyDeletehahahaha got a good chuckle out of this one...Great or is it Gleat>
ReplyDeleteCheers