Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Kids, please don't try this at home.

Kids, please don't try this at home.
feeling: knackered
music: acid house kings - sunday morning

Today marked the first of my many 10 hour non-stop Tuesdays. 4 hours in the Maclab for Publication Design, an hour and 45 minutes zonking/laughing in Visual Comm lecture with 15 minutes to pee/gobble sandwich/run to South Spine for my 1.5 hour Malay elective, and 3 minutes to run like mad to Hedwig's Newswriting.

While it felt good to rush with a purpose, I am almost sure I started having double vision towards the end of the day. Pffff.

Malay tutorial was interesting though. Our tutor was talking about the complexities of the English language, and the discrepancies between the spelling and pronounciation of words. These were his examples:

T: "Why is laugh spelled as l-a-u-g-h and pronounced as 'laff'?"
T: "So if 'gh' is pronounced as 'ff', why is ghetto not pronounced as 'ffeto'?"

And here's the kicker.

T: "K-n-o-c-k. How do you pronounce that? 'Nock'. Why don't you go around 'kenock kenock'?"

LOL.

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