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Message board > Just for a laugh... or tears!
Just for a laugh... or tears!
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S�lvia73
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Just for a laugh... or tears!
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Hi everyone!
I need to share this with someone, otherwise I�m going to drive crazy here!
I�m correcting some tests and my 11th students had to comment on the phrase "I shop therefore I am". One of them wrote:
"�I shop therefore I am� is a comparison to the words of Jesus, �I think therefore I am�.
What do I do? Do I kill him or kill myself laughing????!!!!
Have a nice evening... |
4 Feb 2009
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mario89
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Kill him and yourself
It�s not a Jesus quote, that is Descartes�.
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4 Feb 2009
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moravc
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you made me laugh...
first I thought - kill him...
now I think - ask him to write the line 100 times...
that will do the trick as well 
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4 Feb 2009
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masia
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hahaha, that was hilarious! :D
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4 Feb 2009
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S�lvia73
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@mario89:
Really?! You don�t say!
I know that! My student apparently doesn�t! That�s why I felt like kill him.
I�d better have a word with his Philosophy teacher... she�s going to have a heart attack! |
4 Feb 2009
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S�lvia73
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@ moravc:
Great idea! On second thought... I think I�ll make it 200!!!  |
4 Feb 2009
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decspec
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I think you should consider it correct (I mean, grammatically speaking), although the idea itself is terrible! He is a shopaholic, isn�t he?�
Greetings from Argentina |
4 Feb 2009
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L�lla
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woww!!
yes, if you are not allowed to kill him due to regulations, you have to do something about it!! make him read something, watch some movie, do something....
It is not the fact that the student is completely ignorant or that the sentence itself is grammatically correct; to me it has something to do with professional responsibility..... That student has to see wider horizons!!!!!!!! Poor kid, it�s so sad....
I would give that student a movie or a book to read and ask him to do a specific assignment, I don�t know....
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4 Feb 2009
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Ivona
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Kill him for being imaginative?? i don�t think so 
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4 Feb 2009
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alien boy
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I�m with you Ivona. Why stifle a free spirit??????
He has the makings of a �Goon� or �Monty Python� with a quote like that... |
4 Feb 2009
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