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 Sunday September 09 2007

dictionary reliance

Last Friday night the teachers went out for dinner to start off the new semester. Over the course of dinner teachers of course share stories aboutthier classes and students.There was one particular story that I enjoyed and illustrated that some students rely a little too much on their electronic dictionaries.

Apparently this student was translating the Korean word for blue or auquamarine and using it in the sentence “I like aquamarine.” However she didn’t use the correct word from the dictionary. instead she chose the definition with a decidedly different meaning. When the teacher checked the dictionary and suggested that the correct translation would be blue or aquamarine the student, an attractive female freshmen, insisted on saying “I like sodomy

The moral of the story is that you should not over rely on dictionaries and probably cross reference unfamiliar words. For the record the Korean word is 남색 though it doesn’t list aquamarine as a translation putting in aquamarine returns 남색.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Sep 9, 2007 at 05:23 PM
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JMac wrote 33 words  on  Monday Sep 10, 2007  at  08:40 AM Korea (South)

Nice. When I still teaching in a hogwan (years ago), I had one middle-school boy that kept insisting that he ‘wanted to BE a girlfriend’. Couldn’t dissuade him.

Wonder where he is now?!

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