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Friday, February 13, 2009

English Problems

2 comments:

Linguanerd said...: I love the crying over spilled chicken :-)

I might write something on mine about literal translations of Arabic idioms.; March 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Loraine said...: I would HATE to be their teacher. It seems like the only thing any of them can clearly say is SHUT UP!!; April 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM

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