Tuesday, December 16, 2008

More English Follies

From my dearly beloved students:

(trying to say, "I enjoyed myself") "I am amusing."

Then: "Christmas morning, we discard our presents..." (who knows why the dictionary has both "discard" and "unwrap" for the same word)

(reading the Christmas story in English, and trying to translate to herself in Italian): "Mary kept all these things in her...ear?!!! ("heart" and "ear" are kind of a difficult distinction sometimes.)

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