RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

Did you invent that phrase in the language lab?

Er, ... in my head in seconds. Then posted it. No filter.

Language use is messy. We hear native speakers make "mistakes" daily. Sometimes they are intentional and sometimes not.  But let's not repeat trite expressions. I don't traffic in tired phrases, if I'm up to it.

Let your students say and write whatever - as long as the MEANING is clear. "Fourteen" vs. "Forty" is way more important than the spelling of 'tomato'.

Er, ... in my head in seconds. Then posted it. No filter.

Language use is messy. We hear native speakers make "mistakes" daily. Sometimes they are intentional and sometimes not.  But let's not repeat trite expressions. I don't traffic in tired phrases, if I'm up to it.

Let your students say and write whatever - as long as the MEANING is clear. "Fourteen" vs. "Forty" is way more important than the spelling of 'tomato'.

Great advice!

Fluency vs accuracy. Standard CELTA material right there.

Fluency vs accuracy. Standard CELTA material right there.

CELTA does not sponsor absurd questions like: "Is it a pencil?" ... of course it is. No human ever asks that question, hence no student should ever have to answer it.

I took the CELTA program in Auckland, New Zealand about 18 years ago. Not a word uttered in the classroom was to differ from that out of it. That meant 'gerund', 'adverb' and 'participle' were off the table.

You got me mixed up with someone else.

Oh, Van. Lying about this is akin to lying to your parents about where you grew up.  We’re a small group of participants here. Everyone recalls you referring to people that used Google as keyboard warriors. Everyone remembers you refusing to accept Google searches as evidence Terry Fox didn’t start his Marathon of Hope on the Pacific coast or run through Kamloops. You said you would have to order his biographies as Google searches weren’t acceptable. He didn’t get you mixed up with someone else. We all KNOW that. Why lie? 

I ain't gonna argue against my drunk self.
Yes, i post when inebriated.
I'm sober now, the sun is shining and i'm off.

Before i go: i was born in Vancouver General Hospital while my parents lived on Randolph Street in nearby Burnaby. My dad and i went to Vancouver Island when i was mid-kindy (a shock i recall vividly). We lived on Vancouver Island until i was 10, close to 11,  departing VanIse the last week of 1979. We sang "Take me home, country road, to the place, where we belong..." on the push-button am radio only dashboard. My family home thereafter for 29 years was Kamloops. I spread my dad's ashes in 2008 in the North Thompson river at his fav out-of-the-way fishing spot. It was a good day.

Have a good day! :)

(Our days are numbered. Speak your truth. Don't stutter. Let come what may.)

I ain't gonna argue against my drunk self.
Yes, i post when inebriated.
I'm sober now, the sun is shining and i'm off.

Before i go: i was born in Vancouver General Hospital while my parents lived on Randolph Street in nearby Burnaby. My dad and i went to Vancouver Island when i was mid-kindy (a shock i recall vividly). We lived on Vancouver Island until i was 10, close to 11,  departing VanIse the last week of 1979. We sang "Take me home, country road, to the place, where we belong..." on the push-button am radio only dashboard. My family home thereafter for 29 years was Kamloops. I spread my dad's ashes in 2008 in the North Thompson river at his fav out-of-the-way fishing spot. It was a good day.

Have a good day! :)

(Our days are numbered. Speak your truth. Don't stutter. Let come what may.)

Speak THE truth, not your truth. Have a good day, as well. Quick question, what was the point of that second paragraph in your post?  It was lost on me. 

Yes, i post when inebriated.

Finally a truth of yours we can all get behind.

Yes, i post when inebriated.

Big surprise.