I've been cleaning my room in preparation for the family's upcoming move (We're not going very far, though) and dug up one of my linguistics books from college. In it I found an interesting poem called "English" copied below. I remember being amused by it since I had always thought the writing system of the English language corresponded to its ( Read more... )

I was thinking about an article I saw in a Japanese newspaper in August (which I'm posting on mixi), and that reminded me of two funny anecdotes that came out of weird English education in Japan and thought I'd share them with you ( Read more... )