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afeman's avatar

A fellow TEFL teacher back in the day explained how he taught the word "poop", that the motion of the mouth forming the word echoed... you can fill it in. I responded that his students would never forget it, try as they might.

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Yes, “icon” has become so overused, every middling pop star is now designated as such. Equally annoying are “journey,” when used to describe something that’s not actually a trip—“my journey to achieving sobriety”—and “my truth,” which implies that whether something is true or false is a matter of individual perspective. Which it ain’t.

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