Posted: 11/10/2005 12:37 AM
Post subject: Found this essay on the schoolfloor
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Randil
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Hey, I found this essay on the schoolfloor some time ago, and I can't help but laugh whenever I read it! Whoever wrote it is not very good at english. Anyway, I thought I'd post it, perhaps you will get a good laugh out of it. I might add that I haven't changed anything in it, this is exactly how I found it: "Today have I played a little game. We were suppoes to swim in a river without to get hurt... three wen’t home with a helicopter, they were bitten by a small moose. Scoutmaster Walt think that we disterbed when it ate. So now are we 7 boys left and one girl. Pour girl, every boy is on her, even me, but I don’t know why? If you had seen her once, you doesn’t want to see her again. Today we also had to hunt for dinner. We found 10 snakes. It’s realy taste great. But we all is ill after thatand tomorrow we’ll just lay in bed. Yesterday it was so fun. We played hide and seek. Then we lost Pontus and for an hour or two we found him bound in a tree, we wen’t to get him and when we all is under the tree, it’s jumps down a talliban whith an AK-4 in he’s hands and after a 30 minutes scoutmaster Walt had talked us out. The talliban said that we were in Afghanistan. See you soon, I hope / Dear Cole" Oh, and this text was approved by the english teacher, it got a "G+", which corresponds to B- or somewhere around there. I think that english teacher was just a little too nice...
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Posted: 11/10/2005 12:40 AM
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Highness
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Err.. In what grade was that approved Randil?
Posted: 11/10/2005 12:42 AM
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Randil
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I found this when I was in third grade in the swedish "gymnasium" (kinda like high school for those who don't know). This means that the guy who wrote this had to be between 16 and 19 years old. The teacher had written "G+" on the paper, that's how I knew what grade it got.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 12:44 AM
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xebra
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SÄRSKRIVNINGAR
Posted: 11/10/2005 12:49 AM
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Highness
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Geez... A person in that age should be able to write better than that. But then again. Perhaps this person is not generally interested in watching TV/Movies or use a computer frequently enough to catch alot of words and stuff? But still... Enough words have gotten into swedish, and we can see english phrases every single day by just going out side or switch on the TV. I think we are learning it subliminal. English is taught from the 3rd grade of compulsory school now days. So a swedish person should most likley be able to write, speak and understand english very good, even in that age. :) Edit: Heck... Even my niece sang english songs and could tell what everybody in shrek said in english! She was seven at that time!
Posted: 11/10/2005 12:50 AM
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xebra wrote:
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Lol. Ya, that would somewhat correspond to my feelings about "särskrivningar". I can't believe that got a G+. Besides being horrible written it also made no sense whatsoever. Amazing.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 12:51 AM
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Randil
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But hey, look at it from the bright side, at least his essays are funny to read! :) I think my favorite sentence was "Then we lost Pontus and for an hour or two we found him bound in a tree, we wen’t to get him and when we all is under the tree". It's poetry to my ears... (or not)
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Posted: 11/10/2005 12:52 AM
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Highness
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I thought drugs were illegal at schools as well?
Posted: 11/10/2005 1:12 AM
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Nonetheless, they are one of the best places to sell them.
Posted: 11/10/2005 1:13 AM
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Yep, I like when stories are written badly enough that they're bizarre.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 1:18 AM
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I like reading Google and Babelfish translations. Some of that stuff is just weird enought to be good. Like my signature for instance, which is the way both Google and Babelfish translated a Japanese review of my website.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 1:42 AM
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I'm confounded.