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I sore, I see

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 17 April 2008 | Views [275]

I haven't made fun of my classes in awhile:

A) A conversation in one of my classes-

Tutor: What is a difference between oral and written language?

Me: Written language doesn't have an accent.

Tutor: RIGHT.  Good.  It's hard to convey emphasis in written language.

Me: No I mean, you can't tell someone's ethnicity through writing.

Tutor: What?  Sorry, I can't understand you because of your accent.

Me: [under my breath] Maybe I should just write it.

hahahaha.  hilarious.

b) We had to read mini essays written by children of all ages and discuss why we thought they had certain spelling mistakes.  I mean I KINDA understood why they wrote trampoline as champoleen but for the life of me could not get how soor was saw.

Then while sitting in the library thinking about it, some Australia girl says to her friend "Oh yea!  I soor that!"  Weird accents.

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