this isn't relevant to the topic but i first misread the title as "lost in transition" and spent a good three minutes thinking about how much i can relate to that feel before i realized i wasn't reading it correctly at all
and here i thought it was about the movie my mum teaches ESL (English as a Second Language) and after a few months staying in Japan to teach there, her students made her a very sweet scrapbook to say goodbye... complete with a huge 'WE WON'T MISS YOU' written across one of the pages. apparently the writer had a bit of trouble remembering the difference between 'will' and 'won't'!
it was pretty late and i was quite tired. i'm also sorta subscribed to both the general and gender subforums, and i first saw this in my notifications
My moirail teaches ESL, and I've done that too for a while. My students have said some funny things, like telling their new teacher, who was going to replace me, "Bye, guy!" [they meant it like "bye dude", but it was still really funny]. Or sometimes their reading comprehension got messed up. In one memorable example, they interpreted "one strong tea is better than twenty weak ones" as meaning "one strong tea is better than twenty weeks of tea". Which... well you're not wrong. Nothing beats this gem from one of my moirail's students, though: "You weren't in class today. I can know the why?" "Becausen't."
