Thursday, June 8, 2006

Bad English T-Shirts


No, not cuss words as some of you are thinking. Some of the student’s T-Shirts are written in English but if you take a moment to read them they won’t make ANY sense. There are so many misspellings and incorrect usage, that a real English teacher would have a field day with her red pen. It is almost like they take a bunch of words that are popular and throw them randomly onto the shirt. I wear one that says “Easy Tasks Leisure” it was one of those rare t-shirts that was large enough for me so I bought it, but I kept thinking that it was a contradiction in terms – Easy with Tasks and adding Leisure? I don’t know how you define leisure but anything that is a task is probably something I don’t want to do and I would never do it during my leisure time. I recently held a contest and gave a prize to the Best “Bad English T-shirt”. I can’t take credit for this great idea, it was David’s brainstorm, a friend of Nathan’s and Elizabeth’s. He was a foreign language teacher at a college down the street when the “stinky tofu” is made. (But that is another story).