MooN
Active Member
Oh dear, I've just been helping the twins with their homework. Now Madame is more "acedemic" then I am so does most of the stuff but english falls squarely within my remit. Having corrected the marking of their latest english excercise on clothes and the "full english breakfast" ( yep, stereotypes die hard...) I now find myself having to compose a letter to the teacher trying to explain, without putting their nose out of joint, why "toast" is never plural except when toasting a person like at a wedding, bootle is a town in mersyside not what milk used to be delivered in
, trousers and shorts are never singular, as they're always a pair but that cereal, as in breakfast cereal is always singular, despite never being singular in the bowl...
obviously, at the same time as pointing that out without upsetting the woman, I want to avoid her inviting me to come and help with the english lessons...
, trousers and shorts are never singular, as they're always a pair but that cereal, as in breakfast cereal is always singular, despite never being singular in the bowl...obviously, at the same time as pointing that out without upsetting the woman, I want to avoid her inviting me to come and help with the english lessons...
), and the small amout of remaining text needed to be displayed in French, English and German. The English and frog I am fairly competent at but the Deutsch has generated many a headscratch and many a giggle from some of my germanophone colleagues whom I have had to sollicit on a number of points. but I have also learnt some new phrases which I am sure will come in handy this season such as " Dann war die Kacke am Dampfen" which I have been sorely tempted to insert at the end of each text box telling the client to contact the base... 
