I REMEMBER how my colleagues in the English language department used to joke about the level of English proficiency among the students they taught. We were used to the different versions spoken in our classrooms, the confusion caused or the lexical borrowing. Hilarious stories often emerged of teachers trying to get their students to speak better English.
More than once I have heard teachers comment that after a few years of going through this, they ended up making similar slips themselves.
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