Random Quote
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
The First Post (well, sort of…)
Actually this isn’t the first post, but I should write about why I have created this blog and I am posting it to an earlier date than todays real date just to give that illusion.
The main purpose of this blog is to help me consolidate and organize my thoughts as they pertain to my readings for my Masters of Applied Linguistics courses and my teaching context. The plan here is that by writing about what I am reading before I have to write an actual essay it will help me to better understand and be able to better articulate my thoughts when it comes time to produce.
Ultimately I hope to get feedback from other linguists or graduate students, but that all depends on building readership. To that end I have started reading more linguistics & language oriented blogs and where I have something to say commenting on posts. If I fail to draw any sort of regular readership, I won’t be too concerned as my main purpose is not become “famous” but rather to improve my own understanding of linguistics and how I can apply theory to my teaching.
About Blinger
I am a practicing ESL or EFL instructor at a university in Seoul, South Korea. This blog is about my applied linguistics (TESOL) graduate studies and my ESL classes. I will be writing about my thoughts regarding how linguistic theory can or should be transformed into practice and any difficulties that are likely to occur. I intend to write here daily: Happy ESL blogging.
I am slowly working on a new site design due to notifications that this site is broken in safari. If you have suggestions or advice please send me an email. three columns here I come, but give me time.





