"Unfortunately, all my finals [for grading] for [anonymous class] look good so far."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 13 March 2007
[edit] added: 13 March 2007
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[edit] added: 13 March 2007
anonymous expects (and hopes for?) very little from her students
misfortune, sadness, college, linguistics, non-p.c.ness, grades, gradschool
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heard: 8 March 2007
[edit] added: 8 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 8 March 2007
anon1: "Whatever, I don't have a problem with a girl being flirty and hitting me if I say something stupid. It's not like she'd actually beat me."
anon2: "Yeah, you'd just stand up and grab her boob."
anon1: "That's so wrong."
anon2: "Tit for tat."
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heard: 3 March 2007
[edit] added: 4 March 2007
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[edit] added: 4 March 2007
"I did have the dishes washed..."
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heard: 3 March 2007
[edit] added: 4 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 4 March 2007
Derek: "Blood sucks."
Jonathan: "Then it'd be a vampire, but blood can't be a vampire—then it'd be cannibalistic."
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heard: 1 March 2007
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 5/5
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
Jonathan: "Kazakh isn't that hard—I don't know why all the materials that teach it are so bad."
Ardak: "I think it's because the Soviet system made things unnecessarily complicated."
Jonathan and Ardak
language, wisdom, profoundness, sadness, confusion, insults, SSSR, kazakh, linguistics, insightfulness, turkic
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heard: 1 March 2007
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
"It was funny when Derek had a question, you could tell—it was like watching a puppy. ‘Got a morphology problem boy?’"
Sarah comments on Derek at the review session for our students
child-like, linguistics, people, humanity, animals, stupidity, gradschool
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heard: 28 February 2007
[edit] added: 28 February 2007
[edit] added: 28 February 2007
"Okay, look dude: one thigh, two thigh, butt, back."
ambiguity, child-like, compliments, creepiness, hormone-driven, imagination, inappropriateness, misparsings, sketchiness, animals
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[link]
heard: 21 February 2007
[edit] added: 21 February 2007
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 21 February 2007
(19:22:10) [me]: I'd totally do Korean
(19:22:17) Amanda: awnyunk haseo!
(19:22:23) Amanda: naaay awnyung haseo!
(19:22:26) [me]: .. I don't *know* Korean
(19:22:30) Amanda: me either
(19:22:47) Amanda: i mimic the korean phrases i heard my korean student frie3nds using all th time
(19:22:56) Amanda: and one time i was just like making korean sounding noises
(19:23:02) Amanda: and some kid was like oh which teaching team do you have?
(19:23:05) Amanda: and i'm like uh the arabic one
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heard: 18 February 2007
[edit] added: 19 February 2007
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[edit] added: 19 February 2007
"Let me tell you, Chuck-for-the-buck is the best."
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heard: 18 February 2007
[edit] added: 19 February 2007
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 19 February 2007
Anara: "There's naked girls in these music videos."
[everyone continues playing poker, but half watches for a while]
Jonathan W: "So she's not naked yet."
Anara: "It's Alsu."
Jonathan W: "Oh, she's Tatar. She'll never get naked."
Jonathan C: "That's my experience. Unless you start dropping the blue chips." [tosses in a blue chip, worth the highest value: 100]
