05-27-2012, 05:48 AM
I'm particularly fond of the "sarchasm" as well, Dale, it's so incredibly apt that I'm going to start dropping it into everyday speech -- of course nobody will get it.
Teaching 13-year-olds has given me some quite interesting word knowledge, I must say -- we're doing an indigenous studies unit in English just now, and were discussing the 2008 Prime Minister's "sorry" speech in which he apologised for past policy of removing Aboriginal children from their homes (the Stolen Generation). I was looking at some work handed in after that and noticed that one of the kids had written, rather appropriately, about the PM's "Abologie Speech".
Teaching 13-year-olds has given me some quite interesting word knowledge, I must say -- we're doing an indigenous studies unit in English just now, and were discussing the 2008 Prime Minister's "sorry" speech in which he apologised for past policy of removing Aboriginal children from their homes (the Stolen Generation). I was looking at some work handed in after that and noticed that one of the kids had written, rather appropriately, about the PM's "Abologie Speech".
It could be worse