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... I joke that I'd like to become an English teacher.
Some days I wonder if I'm really joking.
I'm much more lenient on speech, but if you are writing things down, then by god the majority of your writing had better be correctly capitalized, correctly punctuated, correctly spelled (with certain acceptable variants), and constructed in a way that makes sense, or I froth at the mouth.
Man, I would be the angriest, bitterest English teacher ever. Students would live in terror of me - save those who were already inclined to write properly, to whom I would probably be a shining hero. I would grade with no mercy. No, I will not give you a passing grade because you're on the football team, you will learn how to use the fucking comma or you will fail my class. I would probably end up losing my job, not because I was grading too harshly... but because when they told me that, I would go off ranting about the decline of communication and Don't You Think Education Is Important (You Bastards). I wouldn't say "you bastards". But I'd be thinking it very loudly.
Yeah. There are a few buttons that trigger my instant RAAAAAAAAAAGE. Language misuse is one of them. :D
Some days I wonder if I'm really joking.
I'm much more lenient on speech, but if you are writing things down, then by god the majority of your writing had better be correctly capitalized, correctly punctuated, correctly spelled (with certain acceptable variants), and constructed in a way that makes sense, or I froth at the mouth.
Man, I would be the angriest, bitterest English teacher ever. Students would live in terror of me - save those who were already inclined to write properly, to whom I would probably be a shining hero. I would grade with no mercy. No, I will not give you a passing grade because you're on the football team, you will learn how to use the fucking comma or you will fail my class. I would probably end up losing my job, not because I was grading too harshly... but because when they told me that, I would go off ranting about the decline of communication and Don't You Think Education Is Important (You Bastards). I wouldn't say "you bastards". But I'd be thinking it very loudly.
Yeah. There are a few buttons that trigger my instant RAAAAAAAAAAGE. Language misuse is one of them. :D
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No matter what I teach, I'd froth at the mouth at my students. Portuguese doesn't have half as much mute consonants as english does, but, by god, the number of kids who keep mistaking FUTURE TENSE for PAST TENSE because they sound the same in THE SOUTH ONLY. And the graphic accents. Hahaha. Capitalization, punctuation and construction are universal problems as well. If people only bothered to READ MORE, they wouldn't need to study from books to get a grip on their languages.
And netspeak is starting to rise from the deep to swallow us all.