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Here at UCSD we've got professors from all over the world - quite a few of them utilizing English as a second (or third or fourth) language.
Most speak with a slight accent whereas some speak with a thick accent, but most to all of them have a great command of the English language. The sad part is that some aren't aware of some American idioms.
Case in point: I'm sitting in my Probabilities & Statistics class where we're just starting into Random Variables-
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-and the prof is writing on the board the following:
but what he's saying as he's writing it is:
Eff you is equal to....
This is HA-HA funny because in mathmatics everyone would have said Eff of you....
After he did this about four times, he stops and turns around cause the whole class is chuckling. No one had the heart to tell him why...
At first I didn't get it because my own mathematical brain read "F of U". I just thought it was
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scroff said:
Heh heh... he said "Eff u" heh heh /Beavis
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Ah, the joys of professors and TAs who have English as a 2nd, 3rd, 4th language
|| Posted by jaws, February 1, 2005 04:56 PM ||Heh heh... he said "Eff u" heh heh /Beavis
|| Posted by scroff, February 2, 2005 07:58 AM ||At first I didn't get it because my own mathematical brain read "F of U". I just thought it was strange...
At least the class is in English. My friend Jim used to have a class in graduate level math where the professor was Chinese and so were each of the other students (who were all grad students, Jim was a senior). Frequently the class would start off in English and then diverge into Chinese because the other students would ask questions in their own language, and the professor would respond without thinking, so Jim ended up having to take the class privately with the professor since he wasn't getting anything out of it but what was being written on the board,
|| Posted by caltechgirl, February 2, 2005 09:05 AM ||