So it's official. My language skills are deteriorating at break-neck speed.
It's a little ironic really: little-miss-grammatically-correct being unable to string together a basic sentence in her native language. A language whose usage she has been struggling, by means of term papers, essays and theses, to perfect for years.
This realization hit me like a ton of bricks the other day when I was teaching the school's highest language class during their journal period. One of the students' asked me what the past tense of the verb "to bring" was. I immediately responded with "brang".
As soon as it came out of my mouth, I knew something wasn’t right. Suddenly the word “brought” popped into my head. Don’t worry; I did correct my error. But the damage was done.
Soon I’m going to be using “there”, “their” and “they’re” incorrectly. Grievous errors previously punishable by death, in my books. And I call myself an educator.
There was a period when I thought that nothing could kill off brain cells like regular attendance at a Faculty of Education. I now stand corrected.
1 comment:
Damn Jacquie...you shoulda brang a dictionary with you or something. Anyways, I heard that their very useful they're. I would have broughten mines for sure.
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