Do you feel able to correct someone when they say a sentence incorrectly in English. I study with a bunch of foreigners and so far this week i’ve had…
‘I stand up in the morning and i was so tired’ from the lady from Belarus
and
‘I missed my mum when i washed my own lingerie’ from the Filipino guy.
I want to tell them it’s wrong but then i shut up because they might think i’m acting high and mighty. What do you do?
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Innocently say, 'don't you mean blah blah?'...
Then follow up with a, 'Sorry...Got a little confused...Please continue...'
Saves face for everyone involved...
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com’n! may be he really was a crossdresser.
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This new import got pulled over by the cops for speeding.
He rolls his window down and says, 'Whats the circle?'
He meant 'kya chakar hay?'
I dun think your guyz are that bad
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^ kia chakkar hai ? :rotato:
Chakkar kia hai, Tu theek tu english hai Whats the circle ?
Or he was trying to ask * Golchakkar kahan hai * tu he should ask where is the roundabout ? 
You know i am good man the Laaltaain 
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A better question woulda been
Whats the revolution?
Disco, just correct them yaar in the manner prescrived by Lajawab. Will save them plenty embarassment in the future.
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Or just somehow correctly repeat the line or word they incorrectly used
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We've got about 10 new foreign exchange students at our school this year and I was trying to help this one really tall kid from Germany in explaining that the homework was only the EVEN numbers on the given page and he couldn't get it. So finally I sanng out the numbers we were supposed to do so he'd easily remember them so he's like going down the hallway "twinty tooh, twinty foh, twinty sixshhhhh".
Usually I just repeat the sentence emphasizing on the part they didn't get right, but don't make it such a big deal or even smile.. they might be offended.
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i wud tell them if they say something stupid like that!
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'whats the circle'....that sounds like a cool phrase!
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a person says to meera:"happy birthday to u"
meera replies:"same to u"
steve waugh asked yousuf youhana:"how r u"
yousuf replied:"how do u do"
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My house is four minute walk by car.
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and this one by my uncle on his way to Bronx Zoo.
He pulls over and asks a cop" where is the Joo?" The cop thought we were dem sandniqqers with a hidden agenda against "jews."
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lol @ dope
what about... my thongue is swollen...
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What a nice thread! :-D
Yep, it's always funny to hear the elderly or the people who are just learning the language to speak. It's funny too how some words have a normal meaning in one language and a ridiculous meaning or worse in other languages.
What I always love are the accents. Especially our Pakistani accents. :-D Nothing can top hearing your parents or your aunties and uncles speak English, heehee!
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duckette. Ill put missy M in a box, tape it up and post her to you...should solve all your problems!
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lolz