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 #31 (permalink) Fri Jul 11, 2008 23:24 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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How does your "hubby" handle "dialect discrimination" at the academy?
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Doesn't have to. Doesn't happen.
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I'm afraid there are much more serious kinds of discrimination at the Language Academy:
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| That sounds rather odd to me. 75% of the non-native speakers, most of whom have been with you for 7 to 8 years, don't want a permanent contract? |
They may want it, but they don't get it. It's cheaper for academies to use self-employed teachers and to offer temporary contracts. Now, why do you think that is? On the other had, it is sometimes better to offer full-time contracts to native teachers so, as I said earlier, they don't end up living on the streets and in order to keep them year after year. You may be surprised to know that not many native teachers want to live and work in Bilbao, or even in Madrid. Keeping one's teachers can be difficult. The more sweeteners, the better. Most nonnatives are not suddenly going to up and leave. Do you understand?
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(Remarkably, those 140+ teachers make the highly prestigious BLA as big as the Berlitz School in Madrid; though, even more remarkably, it has no web presence whatsoever.)
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| #32 (permalink) Fri Jul 11, 2008 23:25 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| It was the first year their social studies lessons had been about anything other than sub-Saharan Africa. She went into her civics classes knowing nearly nothing about the history of the US or where anything was, but she knew all about Africa. |
That must be an exception. Most Americans I meet know a lot about the USA and almost nothing about the world beyond her borders. |
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| #33 (permalink) Fri Jul 11, 2008 23:28 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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I'm afraid there are much more serious kinds of discrimination at the Language Academy:
I agree. I say so all the time.
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| (Remarkably, those 140+ teachers make the highly prestigious BLA as big as the Berlitz School in Madrid; though, even more remarkably, it has no web presence whatsoever.) |
Sorry? What has no web presence? |
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| #34 (permalink) Fri Jul 11, 2008 23:47 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| It was the first year their social studies lessons had been about anything other than sub-Saharan Africa. She went into her civics classes knowing nearly nothing about the history of the US or where anything was, but she knew all about Africa. |
That must be an exception. Most Americans I meet know a lot about the USA and almost nothing about the world beyond her borders. |
Ask them who the third president was. |
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| #35 (permalink) Sat Jul 12, 2008 13:18 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| Ask them who the third president was. |
Why should that be more important to them than who Tutankhamun was? |
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| #36 (permalink) Sat Jul 12, 2008 16:46 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| Ask them who the third president was. |
Why should that be more important to them than who Tutankhamun was? |
Yes. He had a larger, more lasting effect on the world. |
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| #37 (permalink) Sat Jul 12, 2008 18:32 pm Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| He had a larger, more lasting effect on the world. |
And will probably be remembered way beyond any president, right? |
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| #38 (permalink) Sun Jul 13, 2008 0:12 am Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| Moved. |
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| #39 (permalink) Sun Jul 13, 2008 0:40 am Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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Yes. |
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| #40 (permalink) Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:06 am Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
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| Is it true that AAVE is spoken in federal government in the US? |
ON TOPIC response:
Yes. |
OK. Thanks. |
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