Oi oi.

English, guys. Or more specifically, teaching English. It's a wonderful language for description, but the almost limitless ability of English to create shades of meaning and connotation is a bona fide nightmare when you're teaching it, as I learned at ( my eikaiwa yesterday. )

At which point I had to laugh, because really, what else can you do?

That will be all.

Bookmeme!

Ganked from shoebucket.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

From the English book: Attempts at ornamentation should be deferred until some dexterity in fingering has been achieved. although the sentence fragment before that (the actual start of the page) reads: non-traditional player.

From the Japanese book: 差し出された紹介状を確認しながら、勝馬はドアチェーンを外した。

FWIW, both books were equally closeby, so I've popped both into the meme.

That will be all.