How much damage could an incorrect letter actually do? Whenever you walk past a funny misspelled sign, think about how someone had to write it. Someone had to double-check it, and even triple-check it. Someone’s boss approved it, and someone’s boss’s boss approved it too. Someone had to hang it at a store entrance. It …
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‘Was this his first ever thought?’: High school kid doesn’t understand how movies work and thinks Leo DiCaprio’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was a recording of the actual event of the 1500s
You see what teachers have to deal with on a regular basis? A teacher on Reddit expressed his concern about one of his students for not understanding basic facts of life. On r/StoriesAboutKevin, he explains how they were in English class, watching the 1996 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, starring Leo DiCaprio and Claire …
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1st Year English Teacher Freaks Out After Discovering ‘Only’ 78.6% of his Students Passed the AP Literature Exam: ‘AP Lit had a pass rate of 73% this year. Why are you upset you did better than the global average?’
He is being way too hard on himself. Teachers have a difficult job for a multitude of reasons, one of which is that they are viewed as an extension of their students. If their students don’t care and do a bad job on their work, that must mean their teacher doesn’t care and does a …
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‘Avez vous LOLs, por favor?’: Best posts for people trying to learn a new language
Are bilingual, trilingual, or studying a new language? Do you also need a laugh through all the difficult studying? Look no further! Do we have the most relatable posts for you? Yes! Whether you’re studying a romance language, germanic language, or anything else, we can make you laugh. Cause, heck, laughter is the universal language! …
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17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
We all went to school with some know-it-all kids who thought they were smarter than everyone there, including the teacher. I have empathy for kids who are genuinely advanced and don’t have the opportunity to take AP classes or other challenging coursework. If a kid is actually extremely bored and unchallenged by school, it can …
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19-year-old refuses to be the English translator for her parents after her 22-year-old brother also learns English: ‘I’ve been forced to do it since I was 11’
It’s incredibly common for the children of immigrant parents to have to serve as translators for them, even when they’re as young as 6 or 7. They have to explain their parents’ medical problems to doctors, fill out confusing government paperwork, and order food at restaurants for the whole family. This service is not only …
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35 Book Memes for Literary Types
It’s true that literature will set us free. We’re so used to being bogged down by the noise of the internet, endlessly scrolling and filling our minds with thousands of hot takes, opinions, and jokes from people we will never know. But turn to the gentle pages of a novel, and your mind will thank …
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25+ Memes for the Bilingual Struggle
English is all fun and games until you’re faced with to, too, and two. Or all the different uses of «was.» Or the endless homographs like bass and bass and wind and wind and wound and wound. To say nothing of the homophones. Or the myriad exceptions to the myriad rules. English is not easy, …
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25+ Great British Bake Off Memes Attempting to Glaze a Warm Victoria Sponge
Great British Bake Off is essential comfort TV. It has the perfect levels of wholesomeness, delicious-looking pastries, and enchanting British accents. In American reality television, there is often so much unnecessary drama, stress, and sob stories. In the Great British Bake Off, the only drama is whether or not Jan’s custard slices are going to …
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A Dictionary Full of 31 Wordplay Memes For The Literate
If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s words. The past ten years of my life have consisted of constantly consuming as many words as possible for my own mental enrichment. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with learning vocabulary words. We had to do 15 minutes of vocabulary practice …
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