A new student joined my class this week. As is normal practice I got him to do a piece of writing about his own life so that I could assess his level. It included the following sentence (the spelling and grammar are his!)

I interested in english peeple and lungfish.

It took me a few minutes to work out lungfish=language.

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Originally posted by BobHale:

I interested in english peeple and lungfish.

It took me a few minutes to work out lungfish=language.

hyperbole, Bob? as soon as I noted the rest of the syntax, I read it as language!

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Originally posted by tsuwm:

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Originally posted by BobHale:

I interested in english peeple and lungfish.

It took me a few minutes to work out lungfish=language.

hyperbole, Bob? as soon as I noted the rest of the syntax, I read it as language!

Not really ("a million years" would have been hyperbole.) Keep in mind this was one sentence in a page long essay where almost every word was misspelled. It's sometimes not that easy to see these things when they come at you thick and fast. Of course once I had seen it, it was obvious.

I don't know about lungfish, but he might find a babelfish more useful.

Glad he wasn't my student. I probably would have thought he really meant lungfish.

Me, I's more inturrestid in walking catfish.