Jennifer Lawrence wanted to say two words to Donald Trump
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Well, we know Jennifer Lawrence won’t be voting for Donald Trump this coming presidential election.
During her appearance on The Graham Norton Show with Johnny Depp and her X-Men: Apocalypse costar James McAvoy, Norton asked whether she ever met Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP nomination. She didn’t, but came close.
“I was at a concert that I heard he was attending. So I had my full security, I was like, ‘Find Donald Trump,’” she said. “I was adamant on finding him and making a video of me going, ‘Hey, Trump. F– you!’”
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http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/15/jennifer-lawrence-donald-trump-comments-get-round-applause-graham-norton-show
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Said the English teacher.
I assure you, I teach English to students from all walks of life (well, except the 2 per cent), and every single student would like to have a command of the English language.
Having rudimentary skills condemns one to a life where they are affected by classism and racism. What are you doing? Out fighting for ignorance?
Know what I spent a good part of my Saturday (yesterday) doing? Working with minority students who had studied vocabulary and persuasive writing all semester long. They were in a competition to determine the winner of who had mastery over the nearly 1000 words they had studied. Each week they made flashcards to study their words. Each week I checked in their homework (again, on Saturday) to determine who was doing the work and who wasn't.
This program provides scholarships and an academic boost the students who are financially handicapped. If the student does the work, the student can get a scholarship, plus additional assistance in getting into a far more prestigious college than many had ever dreamed of.
The competition was held in an auditorium at a law school. The students were dressed in professional attire, and so were the teachers and staff of the nonprofit that administers this project.
Cher
Touching story, glad you're doing good work. after they learn the basics they can start learning colloquialisms and slang, and all sorts of other fun things you can do with the English language, which is constantly evolving. You can tell them how many words and phrases that the greats of literature like Shakespeare just made up, and now we use every day.
I suggest you visit the Sociology department and have a conversation about African American Vernacular English, and how, even though you would fail a student for using it, it follows the same patterns and grammar rules as your "proper" English.
But you're right, teaching kids English as a second language should cover the basics before advanced stuff. Good work there 
There used to be humans spellchecking newspapers. Now that it done by improved versions of MS, you do find things like "I have a spelling chequer" 
--imm
I would suggest "idiotisms" as a suitable substitution, but that might be a source of confusion.
My best to you. However you "go", er post, I suggest that you use normal language if you want to be understood. Making shit up does not work very well, it seems.
You knew exactly what she conveyed, which is the primary use for language. Your comment about it being like "Valley girl talk" revealed a root in sexism.
And again, you knew exactly what she was saying.
You also knew exactly what I meant, even though I misspelled it, revealing you're more in this to trap people and feel superior, so back to classism.
--imm
In addition to showing yourself to be pretentious as hell and are one of those people who annoy everyone by only talking in a formal, stilted manner. 
The verb in that context doesn't really mean anything outside of indicating that the person is quoting another person.
My favorite genre of movies is action, with some humor thrown in, so movies like the X-Men series is right up my alley. When it comes to music, with few exceptions (like Muse and Fun), I don't know a thing past the early 1990s.
Confession: I fell asleep in the theater watching Guardians of the Galaxy. We got the blu-ray and I fell asleep again. Now I will never know how they escaped from the prison. 
Which two words?
