Before MySpace, I spent (and continue to spend) time on AOL interacting with others with lupus.
I just wanted to introduce my new lupus friends to some great resources for socializing online with other people who know just what you are going through.
All of this delightful entry is totally creditted to Michele who volunteers her time and talent .
Thank you, Michele, for helping all of us with lupus to find a safe place to visit and care for each other!
Michele places all kinds of fun graphics and fonts in her newsletter, unfortunately, they don't show up here. You can contact Michele to sign up for her newsletters.
******************************************
Hello, buenos dias, kia ora, bonjour, salaam, konnichi wa, havari, guten tag, osiyo, tervist! I guess you can see that I have been to my first English as a Second Language Teacher's Course. That may be as far as I get considering the huge amount of work it seems to involve. How do you even begin to teach someone this language of ours? I will talk more about this later but right now I have to tell you about this week's game before I lose the folks that only read the first paragraph.
You know all those silly sayings that your mother and grandmother always recited to make a point when you did something wrong and you thought they sounded so lame? How about when your grandpa would come up with a real dilly? Well, you should have listened because now they are coming back to haunt you. We will be giving you a common "old saying" and you will have to fill in the blank. For example.
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for ___________.
OK , I won't even tell you the answer for that one because it was such an easy one. You get the idea, right? I WILL tell you though that I just picked that one out randomly from the paper, it was NOT one that I heard from my mother, lol. It is time for a good laugh and I can assure you that laughter is not only common it is a given in these chats.
I DO hope that we will see you in the Lupus Chat room on Thursday night at 7 pm EST.
Yes, that is tomorrow for those of you that lose the day of the week like I do, see you there!
Now that I have business taken care of I can talk a little more about this language of ours. After 16 years of school I have but a tiny grasp of the English language but still don't understand those little pronunciation questions that we all ponder from day to day.
This handout that we got only makes it that much more confusing.......
SOME REASONS TO BE GRATEFUL IF YOU GREW UP SPEAKING ENGLISH
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind!
For example, if you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!
There is neither egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England.
WE TAKE ENGLISH FOR GRANTED.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and Feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
http://sayings.wordpress.com/tag/idioms-sayings-and-slang/
I never quite thought about our language that way, I just took all these idiosyncrasies for granted. I might just have to reconsider and give a couple of hours a month to teaching. It does seem they are going to need all the help they can get!
..........
........
We have something exciting coming up on January 31st through the Lupus Foundation.
Dr Mark Gourley will be speaking and answering questions in a chat about environmental factors in lupus. If you have questions that you would like to submit, there is a link at www.lupus.org where you can do just that. At the least we can be together to hear what he has to say and to learn what we can do to continue the fight. Mark your calendars, January 31st, it starts at 3 EST. More info hopefully next week.
..............
Since no one sent in any nutritious goodies this week to share, I thought , I would put something that Jeanine sent me that would fit in the column and also "sort of" ties in with the rest of my newsletter.
For readers who watch what they eat, here's the final word on nutritionand health.
Facts
1. Japanese people eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacksthan the Australians, British or Americans.
2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than theAustralians, British or Americans.
3. Africans drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacksthan the Australians, British or Americans.
4. Italians drink large amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heartattacks than the Australians, British or Americans.
5. Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats andsuffer fewer heart attacks than the Australians, British or Americans.
Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparentlywhat kills you.
Jeanine
.......... ........
Remember this is your newsletter. If you have anything you would like to share with the group I would love to see it. I can't promise I will be able to put everything into the newsletter but I will promise you that I will try.
One of our lupies (blues2pumpkin), Mary, is working on a local radio show. She is doing three jobs for urradio now, promoing, palace, special events and she does them all night from 7 til 1. I know some of our music buffs would love to tune in http://www.urradio.com/ She just wanted to let ya know! You can reach her directly at blues_urradio@yahoo.com (there is an underscore between the blues and the urradio)
That is it for now. Goodbye, shalom, yawo, giga-waabamin, au revoir, adios, sayonara, zai jian, Usale Kahle Here is the chat schedule......
OUR LUPUS CHAT SCHEDULE
SundayLupus Discussion Chat
8:00 PM EST
7:00 PM CST
6:00 PM MST
5:00 PM PST
SLE HLTH MartyRoom: AOL Lupus Chat Room
MondayLupus & Your Life Discussion Chat
(Two hour chat)
8:00 PM EST
7:00 PM CST
6:00 PM MST
5:00 PM PST
SLE HLTH RdwolfRoom: AOL Lupus Chat Room
TuesdayLet's Get Together Lupus Chat
10:00 PM EST
9:00 PM CST
8:00 PM MST
7:00 PM PST
SLEHealth Scooby
Room: AOL Lupus Chat Room
WednesdayLate Night Lupus Chat
11:00 PM EST
10:00 PM CST
9:00 PM MST
8:00 PM PST
SLE HLTH MartyRoom: AOL Lupus Chat Room
ThursdayLupus Fun Night Chat
7:00 PM EST
6:00 PM CST
5:00 PM MST
4:00 PM PST
HST HLTH ANNEY AND HST HLTH MICHELE
Room: AOL Lupus Chat Room
Tags: lupus chat, lupus online support, lupus social
No comments:
Post a Comment