Clotheses

I wish my grass were emo. Then, maybe it would cut itself.

Heh.

Anyway, my 19” plasma monitor has been recalled. For at least two weeks. I got into the store, tried to show the guy my receipt, but all he did was look at the serial number and say, ‘ah, recall.’ Why didn’t they phone me before?!

Ok, and another thing. The word ‘clothes’ really pisses me off. Because it doesn’t follow any grammatical rules at all.

First off, it has no plural. It is singular and plural at the same time. Technicaly, it’s uncountable. You would never say ‘one clothes, two clothes, three clothes…ect.” Am I right?

Second, with uncountable nouns you always use ‘much’ instead of ‘many.’ How MUCH milk do you want? However, we say, “how MANY clothes did bring.” Am I right? Tell me I’m right.

Third. Ok ok ok. Maybe there’s an easier answer for this…oh I know! MOOSE! Moose are countable, but the word itself is uncountable! (so are all animals with antlers…not horns…antlers) Wait wait wait…”I saw a moose,” “I have a clothes.” I AM SO RIGHT! THIS WORD SUCKS.

Clothes follows no grammatical rules that I can think off. It seems to be an anomaly front and centre stage. It’s no wonder so many of my students say ‘clothes’ like ‘closes.’

Ok that’s my rant. Stupid monitor. So right.

BLAG

Sorry for the blog-lag. Web-log-lag. Blag. My monitor is broken. I have my computer hooked up to my television and the resolution is terrible. I can't even read what I"m typing.

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Back at the grind

Work is up in full force right now, nothing terribly interesting to report. We have a new perspective teacher in though. And her story is pretty interesting.

At my school we have foreign teachers and Japanese teachers. The system works pretty good. The Japanese teachers teach most of the lower classes, and we do all the higher ones (some lower ones too). This works cause we have study meetings with ALL of our students to talk about how to study, why they are here...ect...

The really really low level students wouldn't be able to tell me any of this, but they can tell the Japanese teachers. However, our 'possible' new teacher isn't Japanese; she's Brazilian. She moved to Japan when she was 10 and acts (and looks for the most part), Japanese.

In a country where there is some real backward racism problems, it's really nice to see our school is not afraid of being progressive.


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