Posted on August 29, 2008 by Kelly Pettit
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My spell check thinks I’m a moron!
All of these came up with spell check. How quickly our language evolves.
What other words have been born in the last 5 to 10 years that weren’t [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Kelly Pettit
I was in Australia in the outback sometime back. I was on a tour that consisted of about 15 people. One of the guys in the group was about our age and was really quiet.
One of my friends asked me if I knew much about the guy. I said, I hadn’t talked to him [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Kelly Pettit
Speaking a second language is fun!
There’s a lot of embarrassing mistakes made in the process of learning however.
For example I have said these before:
a) What I wanted to say: “Does your back still hurt”?
what was said: “Does your fish still hurt”?
b) What I wanted to say: [...]
Filed under: Japan, humor, life, random, random thoughts, thoughts | Tagged: humor, Japan, language, mistakes | 2 Comments »
