try add a small amount of cold milk to it before the additional 25.
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try add a small amount of cold milk to it before the additional 25.
Why must it all be so difficult. Can't the school decide on who are genuine good people and just give them a VCE pass? Why must they do this to people?
Get this, someone has a job, runs their own business and is amazingly talented in their own field, whilst actively participating in the school community, and they can't have a few extra weeks up their sleeve for a VCE exam. I know it sounds like if they do something for one person they would have to do it for eveyone, but when someone is exceptional at something then they deserve to know how special they are.
Some people have very shallow futures, but this amount of effort deserves to be rewarded. That is what my school usually does.
Anyway, I don't know what is going to happen.
Okay. Yes. I am an English teacher. Me, English teacher. Alright.
I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate it that whenever I make a litle typo or misspell or leave out word, someone's always there to say something like this:
"Wow! That's pretty bad grammar for an English teacher"
You know what I want to say to that person?
"Crawl back into your little dictionary, nerd-boy/nerd-girl. Most of life is a rough-draft. Typos can be fixed. And, no, I did not major in dictionary memorization. Oh, and one more thing: May I please follow you around and point our your little foibles and missteps? Now, that would be fun!"
End discussion. english techer uot!
Here here Comedian!
I was an English major in college.
Whenever I make a spelling or grammar mistake my husband does not hesitate to point it out to me:
"And this is from the girl who majored in English!!! Har de har har!!!"
Grrr....
^^ Like cobblers go always around in the most worn shoes (as goes a saying hereabouts) :)
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I wish more LitNetters would participate in the Short Story Competition. -- And no, I didn't send in any story of my own :)
Why? Why the hell do you have to make things so complicated? Why, why why?!?!? :mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:
Haha, I know what you mean, my spelling is crap. When I was in highschool and we had to pass our exams around to get marked by other students or whatever, whoever got mine was always like "Hey everyone! Robin can't spell, see? She's ahead in English and she can't even spell "phonetics!"Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
(I spell-check everything before I post it here)
Are you dyslexic, Juniper? We have a few members on the Forum who are dyslexic and I often work with people who have dyslexia. It is, of course, up to you but you don't have to spell check everything you post here. :)
Re. The Comedian's post> I think that is quite a common problem teacher face; expected to be superduper when it comes to grammar and spelling as well as to be familiar with every single word listed in the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary.
Still on the subject, I reaaaaally get wound up when I get comments like "Good command of English language" in my assignments. I feel people expect me not to be good in the subject I teach.
Once during an observation, I wrote "techinally" instead of "technically" on the board. I was told that I had to be careful with my spellings because obviously I did not know how to spell the word rather than making a silly mistake.
I find that ESL speakers are given a hard time; if we make a mistake, it is because we don't know while native speakers can get away with similar mistakes.
:incazzato:
PS: I bet I made enough spelling/grammatical mistakes in this post to put a smug grin on the faces of a few. :goof:
Scher,Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Just so you know; and perhaps to "improve your command of the English language"......
There is only one "a" in the word "really". :biggrinjester:
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Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
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WHY IN THE WORLD DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED!! One story, not, lemme see, eight.
Lucky I'm a moderately nice person, for the most part.
What is with these schools these days, Argh! Why are they allowing the children to bring mobile phones and mp3 players in the classroom? How can they police it? They are toys/pleasure activities... SCHOOL IS FOR LEARNING, NOT PLAY! :mad:
Ok, sorry guys... Just had to yell and rant and rave.:sad:
I work as a cashier in a Grocery store... here are the 5 top things that drive me nuts:
Customers who walk off to get something else while I'm ringing them up.
Customers who walk off and leave their toddler in the cart while I'm ringing them up to get something else.
Customers who let their toddlers wander around the register area as if they think we're a babysitting service.
Customers who seem to think I'm responsible for the whole store/shopping center.
Customers who believe firmly that they are above company policy.
Gaaah! I need a new line of work.
Why did that bird have to do its business in my honeyjoy cupcake!
I was going to eat that and it ruined it.
If, by any chance, you were referring to me, dear DB, then I am horribly sorry!Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
I absolutely loath this computer. it keps shutting down in the middle of my email composition,my research, and in the middle of conversations with my friends. @#%@ Curses.
I just don’t know what is life worth anymore. I’m empty as can be. Why do I feel sorrow so deep when I’m living my life pretty much like everyone else? Do I think too much? Even my passion fails to lit me up tonight. When I see people laugh and enjoy the moment with their friends, it’s not like I’ve never experienced that before, but I’m just so jealous. Do people go out often with their friends? Am I spending too much time alone? My loneliness has already expanded to such a degree that I no longer associates it with loneliness. It has become so familiar that it is numbing. Do I really have to be familiar and filled with all these emotions all the time till I get immune from them? I want love but I don’t know where to get it. I want to give love but it seems there is no place or person appropriate to give it. It’s like the movie where the helpless always wait for the “person” or thing to enter their life and save them out of their misery. Where is my meaning? Tried to be strong but I became sad.
Oh no!!!! No way! :svengo::nono::svengo:Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
As a matter of fact, I was reffering to myself :redface:
How could I ever get that mad at you over a little mistake?
This phrase annoys me, but makes me lol at the same time. here is an instance.
Parent-yell yell yell, lecture lecture, guilt trip, yell some more about the same thing for an hour.
Kid-rolls eyes
Parent- Fine go to your room...
Here is where my problem is. Most kids have a laptop, cd player/ipod/mp3, tv, cell phone... all of this in their room. So really parents lets see listen to you yell and lecture or do something to get sent to our rooms which you think is punsihment...hmmm hard choice... Also being grounded to your room, lets see that basicly grounds me from well you. still have my phone, computer and tv. not to mention all my video games. yes I'm sooo regretting what I did.
This bug anyone else? We wonder why displine fails... They enjoy it...:out:
Use safari, It does spell check for you, even on here as you are typing. I don't use it really becuase my computer HATES it, but most people can. And I understand the spelling thing, Where I went to school we never did spelling, ok we did it pre-k thru like third grade. the end. So I get to college and we have spelling test and I'm like :yikes: so No worrys. This is not really a formal forum so I wouldnt worry about it that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
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Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Oh. That's a relief. I still am pretty stoked about last night.
I must have overreacted :sad:
Oh, can't be!Quote:
Originally Posted by BibliophileTRJ
They told me to "sound out" the words to spell correctly and that is exactly how I say it... Reaaaaally!
:p
Wait, so your parents don't take that stuff out of your room before sending you in there? Weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by stephofthenight
I was assumedly grounded once. They took all of the awesome stuff away from me. Basically it was just my stereo, Nintendo DS, and the lightbulb from my lamp so I couldn't stay up late doing anything exciting. I got over it in a week. Of course then I just started writing. Then it was even harder for them, because you can't seriously take all of my pens and pencils away if I have to do schoolwork.
Anyway, my problem:
WHY CAN'T I GET MY HUMAN GUNIE-PIG!! I think they are onto me... Ergh, not fair.
If they knew what was good for them they would do as they are told!!
THEY JUST DON'T GET IT!!
lol most paretns don't and no I paid for it so they really couldnt
I can't get a job yet, still too young. So my parents get me things pretty much whatever I want, seeing as I'm usually a good girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by stephofthenight
I don't get grounded though. I don't ever get in trouble. On the rare occassion I do, I just get yelled at by my mum and ignored by my dad. Oh well, I can live with that.
I don't go out anywhere or do anything with my friends. School is like my whole life and they want me to be there. There isn't much they can stop me from doing.
I use the word I too much.
no my dear you do not... And carefull you will give away all your secrets to mum :)
Hey Steph, this may come as a shock to you... But my girl likes to talk to me about her secrets... (Well maybe not all of them, but most of them anyway) We have an unusual relationship - to say the least.Quote:
Originally Posted by stephofthenight
I do tell my mum things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maryd.
I mean, if am going to unleash a nasty secret, and if it is something she is going to dislike, I'm not going to go into all of the ghastly details, but otherwise, I don't like to hide things. Not if I can avoid it, anyway.
Unusual? Yea, I guess so. Good though, reliable enough.
Mwah to you my special girl
-mwah-Quote:
Originally Posted by Maryd.
I love my mummy. Always.
Mothers have this special capability of knowing everything somehow....dont know how they get it...but if you want to hide something...they just get to know....they can smell it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
There are ghastly details?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
:( I'M WORKING AS FAST AS I CAN!!! I can't keep up with you. It's not my fault that I haven't been doing this job since 1972...
PLAY THE INSTRUMENT PROPERLY!!
The notes are written on the sheet, so follow them.
Then empty out the spit thing.
Then stop saying mean things to it. You have to love your instrument.
Be a good girl they said... Pif... That's cr_p!
If you want a job done right, then do it yourself because DON'T WANT TO!!
Even though I could do it even better anyway.
My boss yelled at me in my cubicle. He did not have an understanding of the issue, and he came over into my cubicle barking instructions. He did not know that the issue was already being handled, nor did he know that the "issue" was caused by a software problem. He is not an effective leader. If it is your objective as an employer to have fewer employees then the best strategy is to find a terrible supervisor to manage the employees. People won't want to work there and they will leave and your payroll expense will go down, and that's a good thing since minimizing costs seems to be the only thing employers care about. :crash: :crash: :crash:
I don't want to go out and buy things just because you say I need them.
I don't want to go in water past knee height.
I don't want to sleep in a tent with people I don't trust for one night.
I want to go out and by things that I don't need just because I can.
I want to go and have fun in the water and get saturated with my friends.
I want to learn how to play poker by torchlight whilst eating lollies and getting to know some of my schoolmates.
I'm indesicive.
Whatever.
The first camp that I'm on has cold weather, then the second one has aweson weather.
And why do I need to get half the stuff on the list I was given?
I mean, on one part they want us to bring bathers and the other they want us to bring thermal underwear. The weather report say it will be too cold to swim and too hot for thermals.
And I don't HAVE half of the things they want. No thermals. No pants that aren't jeans. No beanie. I don't think I even OWN four t-shirts that have sleeves that aren't long sleeves. I thing, at the moment I've got... eh... two that are clean, one I'm wearing, one I wore yesterday, and a whole heap on them that don't have sleeves.
Then they say to bring a long sleeve shirt to protect us from the sun and THEN they say to bring sunscreen. If we have sunscreen then WHY, may I ask, do we need to cover our arms?
ARGH! :cuss:
CYBER BULLIES!!! I hate them. and I must, because I hate using the word hate! GRRRRR!
Try harder.
I wish that the lot of you would get off your high horse of having to prove others wrong concerning your own opinions....and if you can't...I wish that you'd just leave.
I hate this stupid book report. It is the most boringly mind-numbing assignment I've ever had. Its like all of the writers-block I had during that RE assignment that I ended up getting an A+ for all over again. I know I'm going to get a good score, but I'm going to have to tough it out to produce some work that I cannot help but despise in order to do so. I could just get it over and done with and then cast it from my mind, but no. I need to rant on. I mean, we were given minimal information on how to structure it, despite the fact that not one person in the class has ever produced a book report. We weren't given any information. When in doubt, I've always been told to ask questions. I ask and I get nothing in reply.
"How many words does it have to be?"
"As many as you think you need."
"Will we be marked on the word count?"
"Yes."
"So what is a good score?"
"Everything has to be relevant to what is in the book."
"Miss, you've read Looking for Alibrandi, what do you want me to do?"
"Just do what you think is right." No kidding, I'd have done what I thought was wrong.
"Okay then Miss. So what am I supposed to write about?"
"Follow the sheet."
"I don't want to just re-tell the story."
"Don't. Talk about the characters."
"So that is what we are marked on?"
"No, you're marked on your knowledge of the story."
"Yea, I know what you mean."
"You also have to say how you felt about it."
"So this opinionated?"
"No. Say the good things."
"So I can't bag how much I despised the ending?"
"You'll be marked down."
"Got it. So I'll just try and get a good mark."
"Good girl. Now I want to have my lunch."
"See you, Miss."
"Bye Frances."
Yea. I've never heard a teacher tell me to write what they want to hear. I know they mean it, but she just said it. And why can't she tell me how many words to write? She knows I can write, she knows I can make it all relevant. So now I'm just going to write more than I guess everybody else will just to be safe. Nothing else better to do.
And why must she call me "good girl"? She is baby herself, she was at the same school as well. Half the teachers who praise me gave her detentions.
Okay. So I should stop dragging on about how I believe I'm superior and get some work done.
I know that no matter how much I procrastinate, I'll do well. Then I'll be praised through that same fake smile.
I wish all teachers were genuine, like my maths teacher and my RE teacher, and my year seven homeroom teacher.
And, guess what else, MY TEA HAS GONE COLD!!