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| Molly wrote: | You don't believe me and I don't give a toss. Got it?
Go believe Jamie with his now famous "I know a person who..." |
...says there is a prestigious language academy in Spain that's run by a Brit of Anglo-Irish descent who claims to be married a Nigerian woman who sends out an email only to get 57 responses from teachers of said academy in a matter of an hour...
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:12 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Ralf wrote: | | Molly wrote: | You don't believe me and I don't give a toss. Got it?
Go believe Jamie with his now famous "I know a person who..." |
...says there is a prestigious language academy in Spain that's run by a Brit of Anglo-Irish decent who married a woman who claims to be Nigerian and who sends out an email only to get 57 responses in a matter of an hour... |
And who is not only an administrator at the academy, but also sees to a family and somehow manages to post scores of forum messages daily, at all hours of the day and night. |
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:25 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Quote: | | And who is not only an administrator at the academy, but also sees to a family and somehow manages to post scores of forum messages daily, at all hours of the day and night. |
You're another who needs a lesson in pixel saving, Ralf.
Try: "I don't believe you, Molly!"
You're so busy trying to keep your place in the flock that you can't even answer this question: Do you find Bettina Lüscher difficult to understand?
Have cojones, man, for goodness sake. |
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 16:54 pm What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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It's clear from the start that Molly doesn't want to debate since his/her fabricated methods, examples and questions only serve the sole purpose of supporting his/her pre-fabricated opinions.
If you come across an untenable assertion that reads Chickens are birds that fly in flocks and tend to migrate twice a year. This is true because every chicken has replied to our email within a day, you'd want to write a letter to the editor.
| Quote: | | Do you find Bettina Lüscher difficult to understand? |
No, I don't. I listen to Germans having a go at English every day.
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 0:06 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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If you look at this cached page from Google, retrieved on the 12 June 2008, you can see Molly's "How the UN Tries to Feed the World's Hungry" clip in the side panel. It had 228 views at that time.
If you look at the current version, it states: 254 views.
254 - 228 = 26 views since 12th June.
It may seem scarcely credible; but I strongly suspect that not a single one of those 77 ESL teachers at that highly prestigious ESL academy in Spain obeyed the instructions of Their Administrator.
Absolutely shocking. Perhaps an all-staff reprimand would be in order.
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 0:19 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Quote: | | No, I don't. I listen to Germans having a go at English every day. |
Well, you got there in the end. All those wasted pixels though.
| Quote: | | Chickens are birds that fly in flocks and tend to migrate twice a year. This is true because every chicken has replied to our email within a day, |
Well, if you'd rather believe Jamie's "I needed a couple of weeks before I could understand her without a lot of mental effort.", and the rest of his sly dig, once again, at Europeans, go ahead. It's a free forum, right? And you Europeans are thick-skinned, right? |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 0:26 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Quote: | | It may seem scarcely credible; but I strongly suspect that not a single one of those 77 ESL teachers at that highly prestigious ESL academy in Spain obeyed the instructions of Their Administrator. |
As always, so smug in your ignorance. Wake up to "aTube Catcher" and AVI, Mr P.
Way ahead of you, Mr P. Wanna try, once more, to beat Molly down ?  |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:09 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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Can you hear Mr P planning his next move? Tick-tock, tick-tock. Can't wait!  |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:14 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Molly wrote: | Wake up to "aTube Catcher"
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It's a wonderful thought; but:
| Molly wrote: | Because, my friend, the link was attached to an email about reports being handed in late, and, I am the administrator.
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The link was attached, I'm afraid.
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:34 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Quote: | | The link was attached, I'm afraid. |
Dear, poor, Mr P... . The "link" was a link to the AVI which I stored in our intranet. For teachers, we no longer allow any direct access to You Tube in our academy. Next move? Tick-tock. Why do you bother, Mr P. Way ahead of you, as I said earlier. |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:00 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Molly wrote: | | Well, if you'd rather believe Jamie's "I needed a couple of weeks before I could understand her without a lot of mental effort.", and the rest of his sly dig, once again, at Europeans, go ahead. It's a free forum, right? And you Europeans are thick-skinned, right? |
I wasn't making a dig at Europeans, Jack, I was making a dig at Bettina Lüscher's problematic pronunciation. |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:07 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| Quote: | The "link" was a link to the AVI which I stored in our intranet. For teachers, we no longer allow any direct access to You Tube in our academy.
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Better and better.
So, in the space of a couple of hours, in one of the biggest ESL academies in Spain, in response to a comment on an ESL forum:
1. M. downloads a 4-minute clip from youtube (access to which is blocked) as an AVI file – say 30MB.
2. M. asks an IT colleague to upload the AVI file onto the intranet, presumably with a brief text of some kind. The IT colleague complies immediately.
3. M. emails 77+ teachers about "late reports", with a link to the file on the intranet and instructions. They are to report back immediately.
4. All the 77+ teachers in their 77+ classrooms, though busy teaching their young charges that "complicate" is a perfectly acceptable alternative to "complicated", somehow access their email, view the file, and respond immediately.
5. Meanwhile, in the Admin department, where the Spanish women are excitedly discussing the new initiative, M:
a) deals with general enquiries
b) deals with teachers' emails about "late reports"
c) deals with teachers' puzzled queries about what on earth it's all about ("It is paramount that Acme Language Academies, Inc. be seen to post a reply to Jamie (K) on English Test asap!")
d) posts various odd questions about linguistics on various forums
e) reads, collates and classifies those 77+ replies.
And all within the space of a couple of hours, at the very busy and prestigious language academy.
Is that the story?
Or is there more? (I rather hope there's more.)
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:49 am What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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Mr P, have you been watching re-runs of Perry Mason? Save pixels and say "I don't believe you". Then some of us can move on. See that my posts to Jamie were wholly on-topic. The distractions commited by Jamie and you have ruined this thread.
But, let's humour you a little:
| Quote: | | 1. M. downloads a 4-minute clip from youtube (access to which is blocked) as an AVI file – say 30MB. |
You missed a bit: "For teachers, we no longer allow any direct access to You Tube in our academy"
| Quote: | | M. asks an IT colleague to upload the AVI file onto the intranet, presumably with a brief text of some kind. The IT colleague complies immediately. |
Are you IT-blind, Mr P. First, you didn't know about "tube catchers", and now you think it takes an IT expert to upload an AVI file to an intranet.
| Quote: | | 3. M. emails 77+ teachers about "late reports", with a link to the file on the intranet and instructions. They are to report back immediately. |
Do you think I e-mailed 77 teachers by individual e-mail? Or maybe we have a function called "e-teachers", eh? Hm. Yes, most did report back immediately because "school's out" and teachers are expected to be at home doing reports. They are getting paid to be available.
| Quote: | | 4. All the 77+ teachers in their 77+ classrooms, though busy teaching their young charges that "complicate" is a perfectly acceptable alternative to "complicated", somehow access their email, view the file, and respond immediately. |
As said, school's out. Next?
| Quote: | | ("It is paramount that Acme Language Academies, Inc. be seen to post a reply to Jamie (K) on English Test asap!") |
More a case of "Hi guys, it's Molly again with her PITA questions. If you don't mind..."
| Quote: | | And all within the space of a couple of hours, at the very busy and prestigious language academy. |
As said,...
Ready to say "I don't believe you, Molly" yet? |
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| Fri Jun 27, 2008 13:52 pm What 'variant of English' would you learn? |
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| MrPedantic wrote: | | Or is there more? (I rather hope there's more.) |
Molly's contentious posts are often over some very elementary concept from linguistics textbooks, so it's very possible that Molly is getting an introductory education in linguistics while doing all these other things. |
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