Unusual grammar

I bought notebooks for students in one of my classes. Simple and cheap notebooks. The most interesting thing about these notebooks is the epigraph on the cover:

don’t be sad
is not so bad
take a breath
and be glad

Doesn’t that brighten your day?

6 Comments

  1. AnthonyJ
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 10:51 pm | Permalink

    No. It make me miserable. You heartless bastard.

    :)
    Singapore is shiny. Food! Stuff! In shops!

  2. Andrew
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 2:49 am | Permalink

    That’s almost as good as the Nepali poster:

    “Life is oyster and I, with sword, will open.”

    Wasn’t there another one?

    Something like:

    “Home is the place where they have to let you in?”

    Sorry about getting robbed.

  3. Posted March 24, 2006 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

    That was heartfelt, Andrew. That was this teacher I met in Birganj who’d written a book of English chants. An excerpt:

    SEASONS (excerpt)
    Rainy uncle is dangerous.
    Bring landslide and flood
    Crops grows very fast
    Parasites Suck the blood.

  4. Posted March 24, 2006 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, Andrew. I know you care. Don’t bother with Scott says. Maybe we should compile old tests from the Nepali school system. It scares the hell out of me how the kids get set up to fail…

  5. Tim
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

    Hi Tony,
    Did you get my last e-mail?
    Is that one still good?
    When you coming back this way?
    Talk to you later.
    Tim

  6. Posted March 25, 2006 at 8:47 am | Permalink

    Got your forward. I don’t usually bother reading or opening those. Sorry. Yeah, the ironkeep.net account works just fine.
    I’ll be back the end of June/early July. Still have yet to set a date.

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