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This came home as homework for the summer. There are no instructions. Not sure if we’re to write it, correct it, rearrange the words or make sense of if. Maybe it’s so my kids can understand Rachel Jeantel if they’re ever on a jury.

Update: answer in comments

27 Responses to “Multilingual”

  1. milquetoast Says:

    image link broken.

  2. SayUncle Says:

    Gah. New WordPress app. Better?

  3. David Liddy Says:

    You need to remove your child from that school. NOW !!!

  4. Bob Barker Says:

    Am I allowed to make a White Balance joke?

  5. milquetoast Says:

    “Bill asked dont us have no recess today”

    THe answer key on p110 says “Bill asked, “Don’t we have any recess today?”

  6. SayUncle Says:

    Well they should explain what we’re supposed to do. Thanks

  7. nk Says:

    I guessed it without the key. “any” is not entirely correct, either. “Recess” does not ordinarily take an article (or whatever the word thing that goes in front is). Bill asked, “Don’t we have recess today?”

  8. Lyle Says:

    Or “…any recesses today?” being as there are typically more than one, and in that case “any recesses” would fit.

  9. Jeff Powell Says:

    I think the NSA is still working on decrypting her testimony…

  10. comatus Says:

    A couple of classic Little Johnny jokes notwithstanding, it’s high time us all were asking, “Don’t us have no recess?”

  11. Jeff from DC Says:

    Is the nuclear option?

  12. j t bolt Says:

    And what the hell kinda handwriting is that? Why use some bastardization half way between print and cursive? Pick one! Gah!

    Damn kids today, get off my lawn.

    And I’m talking about the foolish whippersnappers teaching elementary school

  13. Gerry Says:

    Correct Answer:
    The Man is always trying to keep us down Bill!

  14. IllTemperedCur Says:

    Roland T. Flakfizer: And that spells cash with a capital…
    Jacques: K!
    Roland T. Flakfizer: You should go back to school.
    Jacques: I hated teaching.

  15. Mu Says:

    The instructions are simple: Dejeantel this sentence.

  16. Kevin Baker Says:

    “Oh stewardess! I speak Ebonics!”

  17. RWC Says:

    But recess, we much… we must… and we will much… about… that… be committed.

  18. Geodkyt Says:

    J T Bolt — it’s intended as a transitory font to prep them for cursive.

    Meh. Probably works as well as Sister Mary Discipline cracking my knuckles with the Iron Ruler for my bad handwriting. “Learn faster, or I’ll break your hands with my Magic Education Stick!” {chuckle}

  19. gattsuru Says:

    Kevin Baker
    “Oh stewardess! I speak Ebonics!”
    Ebonics makes significantly more sense than that mess of a sentence. Slang double negatives actually mean something, even if they’re grating to hear.

    Geodkyt
    it’s intended as a transitory font to prep them for cursive.
    That’d require later classes to involve cursive, which is increasingly rare in modern coursework. Somewhat for understandable reasons — correcting essays is bad enough in print — but enough to make good cursive writing an endangered species.

    More likely, the teacher’s handbook’s printers thought it was almost as cool a font as Comic Sans.

  20. Bill Says:

    Cursive isn’t taught in schools any longer. At least it isn’t in any of the local school districts. Computers and all that….

  21. Sparky Says:

    Sir, that’s retarded.

  22. Crawler Says:

    “Crawler asked don’t us have no competent educators today”

  23. Dan F Says:

    We had to learn this style of writing in school (graduated high school ’07)- it’s called “D’nealian” or some similar spelling. As a previous commenter noted, the slant and curved style is supposed to make learning cursive easier, which was still taught when I was in grade school. Seems it still is, despite cursive being dropped from curriculums in Indiana.

  24. NotClauswitz Says:

    Dentist axed us don’t you have no abscesses today?

  25. Beaumont Says:

    Obviously taken directly from the curriculum of the Washington D.C. school system. There, no corrections would be acceptable, or necessary.

  26. Huck Says:

    EGAD! Did that come from a TEACHER?

  27. hist_ed Says:

    Grammar nit (being picked): The “any” is correct if they have more than one type of recess (eg. morning recess and lunch recess).

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