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Check Yourselfby ~namenad

Cartoons & Comics / Digital Media / Comics / Strips

As you may know, David Daneman is an English teacher in the Republic of Korea, as he has been for the last 13 months.

This "joke" comes from two places.

First, I proofread lots and lots of papers that are written by 13 year old Koreans. As such, there is a certain language of proofreading, ie capitalize this and punctuate that.

Secondly, as I am given compliments on my artwork, I have been occasionally hailed as a "genious" and there is a certain irony to this. It is like mispronouncing the word "pronunciation" as people so frequently do.

So thank you all.

And it's spelled "genius."

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~ApocalypseWolfSaris Nov 8, 2011 Student General Artist

I appreciate good grammar and the like. Unfortunately, that makes learning German frustrating. I feel like an idiot when I speak German. It just shows you how much I like the language when I stubbornly keep going with it.

~namenad Feb 2, 2012 Hobbyist Filmographer

I habe Deutsch gelernt, aber Ich habe es verloren.
Schade.

~ApocalypseWolfSaris Feb 5, 2012 Student General Artist

I understood the sentence until verloren.

Welp, I'm taking another semester of it, so I'll figure it out.

~namenad Feb 7, 2012 Hobbyist Filmographer

Well, I wanted to say 'verlieren' but the Internet corrected me.

to lose

Ich habe vergesst.

~Airavel Apr 22, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Nice to see someone else on here that appreciates proper English ;A;

~namenad Nov 29, 2010 Hobbyist Filmographer

Yes.

'Genius' is not an adjective.

~Airavel Dec 10, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Ha...no it's not.

~ToFu-owns-a-big-grin Jun 20, 2009 Student Traditional Artist

Wow, reading the description
I agree with the pronunciation remark
I was explaining something to my dad and he stopped me mid sentence to tell me I was mispronouncing it...
Have you ever listened to someone teach a person with a speech impediment how to pronounce a word that has more than three syllables in it?
"Pronoun..."
"Purnun..."
"Porun..."
"Pah....pahhhh.........pah......"
"Prrr....porr...."

~silentxellie Jun 13, 2009

I love this.
Truly.

<3

~AxMxK May 15, 2009

Chunje.

Coincidentally, I'm headed over to Korea June 12th to do the exact same thing. Help them Hangook Sadams with them essays and engrish.

Not that it's interesting at all.

I like this comic, is the point i'm trying to get across.

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