Thursday, May 01, 2003

Shit. Sorry. J.R. didn't get the "sah-suh" thing. I guess when you live in a country where English is a novelty rather than a
method of communication, you get used to it. That's how they say "SARS." Chinese doesn't have the final-s sound, so I'm constantly correcting them. Other missing final-consonant sounds are why I have a student named "Bah-buh (Bob)," and the 8th and 12th letters of the alphabet are pronounced "aytch-ee" and "ello," respectively.

On a related English-as-entertainment note, the kids and dirty adults who yell "hello" at you on the streets would never answer a single question in an English classroom.

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