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---- Terry Pratchett
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
Welcome to Korea Jewish White Bastards!
Found the pictures below on a thread at Dave’s cafe. The poster saw them while travelling during Chusok (a five day weekend). Don’t these pictures just make you want to come to Korea. Click for full size image. Needless to say, I’m speechless.





Alex Case wrote 28 words on Saturday Sep 29, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Wow. I’m guessing there are no laws in Korea on racism and incitement to hatred either then… That puts the “Japanese only” signs into perspective!
TEFLtastic blog- http://www.tefl.net/alexcase
Sean. wrote 35 words on Saturday Sep 29, 2007 at 12:53 PM
There are lots of laws in Korea (don’t know about racism laws though), but the problem is that laws are rarely enforced. Rule of law is a concept that has yet to get accepted here.
fencerider wrote 86 words on Sunday Sep 30, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Interesting pics…that is shocking to say the least. I also wonder if those people whose names are on the posters (?) would have a chance at using the libel and/or slander laws since the signs are in English would the courts recognize the provocative and insulting nature of the signs….Brendan over at Korealawforum might have something interesting to say about it if he sees the signs.
BTW…i’m gonna link to your pics so more can see them via the marmot aggregator. Maybe that’ll get some attention.
Michael Sheehan wrote 90 words on Monday Oct 1, 2007 at 05:42 AM
The leftists would use English-language signs in their various anti-American protests until they finally tumbled to the fact that some of the more rabidly race-baiting ones were proving to be somewhat counter-productive. After that they switched to Hangeul-only script to vent their venom.
These particular signs will stay up until Mr. and Mrs. Kim are advised as to just how really bad it makes Tae-Han Min-Guk really look in the eyes of the world … and we can’t have that now, can we … it’s all about image don’tcha know?
Chris Gelken wrote 27 words on Monday Oct 1, 2007 at 11:59 PM
This reminds me of the Daejeon Hagwon banner campaign - has the mainstream English language media picked up on the story or reproduced any of the pictures…???