By effiestonem154 - 02/04/2013 21:14 - United States

Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
I agree, your life sucks 40 363
You deserved it 2 864

Same thing different taste

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By lrn2spel, teach - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - United States - Mogadore

Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
I agree, your life sucks 47 055
You deserved it 4 673

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As a speaker of Chinese and Spanish, I can say firsthand that lots of innocent words in a language can end up sounding like others, especially when there's an accent involved and you're not careful. Try to talk to your student and help her understand the meaning of what she said, how it shouldn't be used in a professional setting, etc... and maybe work on her pronunciation! Alternatively, find out who thought it would be funny to teach her that word. Then kick their ass.

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onorexveritas 23

I would've liked to hear that

Thats ******* dumb... Try to explain your self and hopefully they will understand if they don't with 'what a ******* day'

This reminds me of a story from my local area. Back before women got the vote in the 1920s, very few people where I'm from spoke English. An Englishman moved the the area, and decided to run for Parliament and become the MP for that area. Since most of the people didn't speak English, he asked a friend to write his speech in the local language (Gaelic). He asked him to write 'things will not be right until all women get the vote' (vote is bòdadh in Gaelic). On the day he stood up in the town hall in front of all these women and said 'cha robh cus an ceart gus an d' fhuar na bhoirreanich a'bhod.' That roughly translates as 'things will not be right until all women get the dick'.

zfchatroulette 24

That made me laugh waaaaaayyy too hard #49

at least she did say, "OP is a ******* bitch!"

*where, *your, and *you, whew, that was easier than it looked, maybe you should give it a go!

Well it was probably funny if it was in context! How was the rest of her essay?

As a Chinese I must say, most Chinese students know the exact mean of "****" earlier than they know "duck" or "fuel". Thanks Hollywood movies.

Sounds like they take their jobs way too seriously since they fired you for that.

I certainly hope you had the chance to explain the situation and get this resolved. FYL through.