1 November 2011

Disliking, Unlike

While teaching level 9B Cambodian students prefixes on Friday, they had a choice of word beginnings to add to the verb 'like' - 'dis' being the obvious and only correct answer.

But ALL students chose 'un'.

Why?

Because facebook allows you  to 'unlike'.


Ahhh.... the difficulties of teaching English...
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  1. Unknown6 November 2011 at 04:35

    unlike = short for undo previous 'like' action, where 'undo' & 'like' have been mashed together. You would also have to explain that 'like' is a poor choice of word for the action it does as often you 'like' things that are not likeable. Not much thought went into that one, but then it is FB...

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  2. Ann19 November 2011 at 18:18

    Yep...you gotta love facebook! : /

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