Thread: Chula University Thai Program

Originally Posted by David James

not to take the piss.

taking the piss is the same as pulling ones leg

Originally Posted by manned-rake

I take it Irony 101 was not on your 5-day hands-on intensive course in theory and practice of kitchen-fitting....

Well, it clearly was in my 5 days course, I promise. Though I guess in your intensive 20 minute 'How to be a real live professional white English teacher' course they just covered it briefly on the 90 seconds 'history of English literature' module with a 10 second lesson on the sweet sweet irony of the bard

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Originally Posted by fred flintstone

taking the piss is the same as pulling ones leg

Not quite.

Thank you very much and Good night, its been fun. But enough is enough.

Originally Posted by David James

My Teachers are all Thais with BAs and Thai language and for levels 3 and above the teachers are all MAs in Linguistics from either America or Australia

with all due respect, one thing i don't get is why you stubbornly refuse to understand or believe that "Linguistics" has little to do with the practicalities of teaching a particular language. it's a completely separate subject. no really, look it up. or did you think Noam Chomsky's job was teaching EFL classes at MIT?

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

one thing i don't get is why you stubbornly refuse to understand or believe that "Linguistics" has little to do with the practicalities of teaching a particular language.

One of those men for whom for whom statements like that mean an end to any argument or discussion q.v I can't see it (therefore it does not exist.)

Originally Posted by Anna Key

One of those men for whom for whom statements like that mean an end to any argument or discussion q.v I can't see it (therefore it does not exist.)

as a construct, that style of argument could turn out to be very poor in the face of certain types of circumstances (gamma radiation for example).

Originally Posted by manned-rake

Yeah, but you never seem to be able to lay hands on a supernova when you need to get the point across.

if only i'd been there when it mattered. Mutual Assured Destruction's sort of a hobby of mine...