Well I’ve got thick skin and an elastic heart
But your blade it might be too sharp
I’m like a rubber band until you pull too hard
Admiral Katrina Cornwell. Gentle | Tough.
It takes 45 minutes for Rom to even admit his own name, but otherwise he’s clammed up shut against Odo’s interrogations, as promised.
My Russian pupils’ mistakes at their English lessons
- ‘busy’ translated as ‘bus-like’
- ‘happened’ as ‘made someone happy’
- misspelt ‘dictation’ as ‘dicktation’
- “The subject is basically the person or the thing that performs the action in a sentence. What is the subject in this sentence: ’She is watching TV with her husband’?” — “She and her husband"
- a kid once spelt my name as Илезовета (Ilezoveta) instead of Елизавета (Yelizaveta, one of the most common names)
- ‘vegetable’ DOES NOT rhyme with ‘table’
- neither does ‘said’ with ’paid’, and of course though, through, tough, cough, thorough, thought
- in Russian to say that you have something you say smth like ‘In my [possession] is that thing’, У меня есть это. If you literally say ‘I have something’, Я имею это or, god forbid, ‘someone’, that would often mean ‘I screw that thing/person’. So you try to explain that in English you just say ‘to have something’ meaning ‘in my [possession] is that thing’, which often makes pupils begin an English sentence with something like ‘At me there is…’. I once almost translated ‘I have a dictionary on the table’ literally at a lesson with twelve-year-olds
- ‘for what possible reason do you have 16 verb tenses instead of just present, past, and future?’
- there obviously are kids who don’t want to do anything, but I taught a little girl once who broke her right arm and wrote two pages of homework with her left hand (and not that I am terribly strict)
- “How do you spell the word ‘niece’?” — “N-I-E-… and ass’
- “What does the sun do?” — “The sun is sunning”
- you can make your bright pupils learn a lot of vocabulary, complex grammar rules and fix their pronunciation but for some reason no matter how hard you try, only the smartest kids will remember that I write, you write, we write, they write BUT he/she/it writeS
- “Is it true or false?” — “It’s… tralse”
i just spent half an hour digging in my blog to find these pics bc i gotta know who this is and what this series is
its Chris Flemings Gayle, youtube series about a suburban mom
winter is tough, but this is the price we pay for persephone being able to peg her husband in peace, so just accept it
NYC street art!!!! I bought one of these, but sadly did not get the artist’s name so if anyone knows please tell me!
The Lament Slussen Station and Highway Complex in Stockholm
I am a simple building
When I am built on unsafe ground, which mostly consists of medieval trash
I start to sink into the ground
Now I am leaning in several different directions, and one day I will break in the middle
Sometimes i am amazed i was built in the 20th century
Why am i such a failure
Sluuuussen, the saaaad failure building!
This is what anxiety sounds like.
You know usual people say something like the comment above and I’m like “Ehhhh, I guess?” but this time its. super dead on.
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