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March 06, 2008, 12:27
BobHale
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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.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
March 06, 2008, 14:43
tsuwm
quote:
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!
March 06, 2008, 14:59
BobHale
quote:
Originally posted by tsuwm:
quote:
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.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
March 07, 2008, 01:47
arnie
I don't know about lungfish, but he might find a babelfish more useful. Big Grin


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
March 07, 2008, 20:39
Kalleh
Glad he wasn't my student. I probably would have thought he really meant lungfish.
March 08, 2008, 13:37
<Asa Lovejoy>
Me, I's more inturrestid in walking catfish.