More Livemocha humour
I've been in a mega work crunch, and there is much I need to post about when I get a breather, but right now I feel compelled to share something that just cracked me up on Livemocha:
As you go through the language lessons, which are set up more or less like Powerpoint slides, but in Flash, there's a little sidebar where you can submit (hopefully helpful) tips on that particular slide, and see those submitted by others. Usually the one it shows by default for any given slide is the one that's been rated helpful by the highest number of users.
On the slide I just looked at, in a lesson about where things are, the caption was "¿Dónde está el espejo? Está sobre el árbol." ("Where is the mirror? It is on the tree.") with a photo of exactly that.
Usually the tip that shows up first in the sidebar is something explaining the use of a particular word, or something similarly practical. But in this case it was "Why is there a mirror on a tree? Who does that?"
In my current state of being somewhat punchy from sleep deprivation, that just about caused me to snort tea out my nose. But the coolest part: 23 people had rated it as helpful.
As you go through the language lessons, which are set up more or less like Powerpoint slides, but in Flash, there's a little sidebar where you can submit (hopefully helpful) tips on that particular slide, and see those submitted by others. Usually the one it shows by default for any given slide is the one that's been rated helpful by the highest number of users.
On the slide I just looked at, in a lesson about where things are, the caption was "¿Dónde está el espejo? Está sobre el árbol." ("Where is the mirror? It is on the tree.") with a photo of exactly that.
Usually the tip that shows up first in the sidebar is something explaining the use of a particular word, or something similarly practical. But in this case it was "Why is there a mirror on a tree? Who does that?"
In my current state of being somewhat punchy from sleep deprivation, that just about caused me to snort tea out my nose. But the coolest part: 23 people had rated it as helpful.