The spouse has a student who's not a native speaker, and he's clearly very smart, but his writing sounds like macros. "In those days I has two friend. Their parent give them bike. Why my parent does not give me bike?" Only cats and ESL students know how difficult helping verbs really are.
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Date: 2008-02-13 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-13 03:53 pm (UTC)::dies::
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Date: 2008-02-13 03:59 pm (UTC)Everything's better when lolcatted!
The spouse has a student who's not a native speaker, and he's clearly very smart, but his writing sounds like macros. "In those days I has two friend. Their parent give them bike. Why my parent does not give me bike?" Only cats and ESL students know how difficult helping verbs really are.
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Date: 2008-02-13 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-02-15 10:39 pm (UTC)Oh, excellent. Thank you for the link!