Can We Start a "Learn English" Thread?

what means `puked' ?

I never would have expected this kind of vileness from you.

Chai Tea, sure, but not from you.

You try bleedin' for 4 days, claning up dog puke at 5am off of an angry husband and nearly all layers of bedding, getting 3 hours of sleep for three days straight, have a huge deal to be completed at work that week and have to deal with these crazy "Help Me!" threads and then we'll talk. :wink:

what? your husband is not capable of cleaning dog puke off himself he has to have a bitchy pmsing slave to do it for him.

re learn english thread there are a few regulars who could benefit.


Craven I can smell a dollar here somewhere!

Well, considering him getting up would have dumped the puke all over and we'd really have had a mess, yeah, I had to do it. He didn't lay there after I got the bedding off waiting for me to wipe him down. Duh.

As it should be woman! now back to the kitchen.

If you can read this, make me a sandwich!

I totally agree with you Bella, but I think it is hopeless. I fell like we have been invaded. I've always avoided answering the questions of lazy American students, but now the A2k address is obviously written in every Chinese high school and college bathroom stall followed by the advice: "post your English questions on this forum and you will get answers".

The other day I logged into "new posts" only to see 5 of the 8 pages filled with things like "help me" "I have question", "what means...", etc. and all are new posters with names like jadeflower, happystudent or something with "cum" thrown in. I logged out and went elsewhere. I just could not bear to wade through it all. I've had interesting chats with Chinese young people in the past, but this is different and I refuse to be their quick reference source. Let them use Google, Dogpile, etc and a library like the rest of the world.

Sign me up, with Chai Tea, on the cranky list.

Yes master.

Bella Dea- Blood and puke aside, it probably would be a bit confusing for the students to have to wade through other member's questions. There are two problems here. All these types of learning ESL belong in the "English" forum. I have seen threads in "Forum Help", "Food" and various and sundry places where they definitely do not belong.

The other problem is the titles of the threads. I tried to address this on a thread of mine, and some people thought that I was evidencing less than a generous spirit.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76464

I have been answering a number of the ESL questions. Sometimes I think that instead of helping these students, I am simply reinforcing poor net learning. You know, that "Give a man a fish", thing.

I don't know. These questions appear to be proliferating like rabbits, ( if I see one more thread about the difference between eastern and western breakfasts, I think that I may just join your dog.

Anybody have any ideas as to handle this so that we can help the students, and not go bananas while doing it?

It would be nice to segregate the Chinese students in a single thread--however, they obviously are sufficiently unsophisticaed so as not to be able to understand that this had been done. In fact, Ellpus attempted to do exactly that, and failed miserably. They simply did not know enough to look for the thread. That they log on at all and are able to ask a question is a tribute to their perseverance.

I think you are being totally reasonable!

Can you filter your new posts to certain topics?

Like only new topics in "General" "Relationships" or whatnot?

I know what you mean, GW. I made it into two out of five pages, and it's time to start on company work.

Bella, why don't we start a "Teach us Chinese" thread.

we had a fun ESL thread started by JB, a chinese student. Been up for a couple of years

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35386&highlight=jbs

I've often thought of JB when looking at all these new threads. He has tried so hard to learn and achieved so much... eventually sharing with us photos from his trip to England.

A few of the Chinese students do respond to some of our responses. If one of the regulars could write chinese, maybe we could start actual communication. Silly of me, I guess - that would probably bring on dozens of questions in Chinese.

As to how annoying it all is, I agree on annoying, but A2K is first and foremost an information sharing website. I wish we could make the process work better though.

On questions being put in the food category, Phoenix, I don't believe it was the Chinese students who put them there - not sure, but it was my observation that there were moved to the subject matter categories.

JB's amazing...he could harly write English...coupla years later...he's reading Shakespeare