If you’re not a regular reader of Bat, Bean, Bean, then let me commend the blog to you.
And this is especially the case in regard the last post.
Would that we call could write as well as Giovanni Tiso, immigrant and speaker of English as a second language.
16 July, 2009 at 7:52 am
It is a great blog. He does write very well.
Far be it from me to be churlish, but there’s a typo or two here that you might want to correct. Or were they to illustrate your point about Mr Tiso?
16 July, 2009 at 8:12 am
meh. i didn’t notice them, so may as well let them stand.
16 July, 2009 at 10:40 am
Heh… I may or may not have chosen the name of the blog so that it would be hard to remember and easy to get wrong. I’ll fool those Googlebots yet!
Che: you’re a very handsome man and I don’t say that to you enough. Also: too kind.
16 July, 2009 at 11:17 am
you already have a partner, and no amount of flattery will convince me to sleep with you.
16 July, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Would that we call could write as well as Giovanni Tiso, immigrant and speaker of English as a second language.
I think he owes us an explanation as to how this has come about. Did he catch a babel fish?
16 July, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Ah, but I’m sure you met a number of foreign students doing quite well at postgraduate level and writing dissertations and the like, right? I think that it’s because writing itself is a second language, so if you learnt to do it quite well in your first language, it’s a skill that translates well into your second. That’s truer in academic writing than in creative writing, obviously, where the deficit of an ESL learner is closer to what you encounter in speech (and you’d be in no danger of mistaking me for a native speaker of English if you heard me talk).
Now I’m off to think of a different strategy to bed Che.
16 July, 2009 at 1:51 pm
food is the way to a man’s heart.
except me, who seems to have shifted his stomach out of the way, thereby preventing any uncomfortable silences at dinner.
16 July, 2009 at 4:28 pm
feeling the nees to explain, che states that he has situs ambiguus, meaning the placement of his abdominal organs is the reverse of you “normal” homosapien.