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and Murilo, Fabricio, and Stephan
Maggi has joined
Maggi: Hi...
John: Hi. I'm having trouble
getting into the Palace.
Maggi: I haven't tried yet
Maggi: can you hear
me?
John: Try now. I didn't have my earphones on.
John: New web page:
http://www.jhsteele.com or, try http://www.geocities.com/johnpr51
Felix has
joined
John has left
Maggi: Hi...can you hear me?
John has
joined
Felix: ??????
John: I live in Puerto Rico (although I am
originally from Missouri)
Maggi: He lives in Puerto Rico
John: I teach
at the University of Puerto Rico, and am studying my Ph.D. in English.
John: A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy.
John: No, I am studying in Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
Felix: plausible
Ying has joined
Maggi:
Hi
Felix: Socrates or Platao that said everything we see, experiment come
from another world... The world of the ideas
John: My philosophy class was
so long ago that...
John: Your niece?
Maggi: nephews I think
Felix:
brats??? LOL
John: I keep losing my audio. I see that someone is talking,
but I don't here anything.
Felix: kids maggi
Maggi: so far you haven't
missed anything
Felix: uh?
John: What's wrong with nephews with
catsup?
John: Sometimes my audio is ok, other times it breaks up.
John:
How do you make them what?
John has left
Ying: I don't know what did
John mean "ketchup"?
John has joined
Maggi: catsup or ketchup
Felix
has left
Maggi: both the same
Ying: They went to another room to do
water colour painting
John: Maggi, I lost you right after you said fall
off. The, I lost my connection.
Maggi: that can be messy, but fun
Ying:
They always left mess.
Maggi: normal for kids
John: Picky, isn't
she?
John: I would be, too. My favorite food is Spaghetti.
Maggi: the
Italians feel insulted
Ying: noodle?
John: Oh, and Puerto Rican food is
full of garlic.
Maggi: I made spaghetti yesterday
Ying: I like
garlic...
John: Ying, noodles are pasta.
Maggi: this is full of garlic
too!
Maggi: garlic is very healthy
Maggi: natural antibiotic
John:
Oh, I have put my family pictures at http://www.jhsteele.com
(http://www.geocities.com/johnpr51)
John: What kills bacteria? The spices?
Hot spices?
Maggi: garlic, onions, ginger, peppers
John: Garlic,
Onions, and Peppers are all part of our standard spices.
Ying: I like those
garlic, onions, giner peppers....
Maggi: I use them every day
John: I
wonder if tabasco sauce counts.
Ying: me, too.
Maggi: and a special
chicken soup in winter for colds
John: What happened to Felix?
Maggi:
he got booted
John: We prepare home-made chicken soup all the time.
Ying: In Chinese cooking, I like to those .... what do you call these good...
garlic..onion,,
John: I got booted too, and it took me a while to get back
on.
Maggi: there's something in the homemade soup for colds
Maggi: out
of a can won't do it
John: My granddaughter always asks my wife to fix her
chicken soup (every time she comes over).
Maggi: we almost never get colds
in winter
John: Who eats canned soup?
Maggi: nobody here but in the
US
John: My favorite soup is homemade vegetable soup.
Maggi:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
John: Think I'll have oatmeal this morning.
Maggi:
yuk
John: Yuk? It's good for you.
Maggi: still yuk
John:
(Especially at MY age).
Ying: What is Yuk?
John: It means it doesn't
taste good.
Maggi: I have the bread here for that
John: Yuk is the
sound a child makes when told he has to eat his vegetables.
Maggi: in
German you say igit
John: What do you eat for breakfast, Ying?
Ying:
Chinese food.
Maggi: like what?
John: I find a lot of Spanish words
sound better, but then, my students say the English word sounds better.
John: Well, we eat cereal, eggs, toast, ham, things like that for
breakfast.
John: I like left-over rice for breakfast.
Maggi: what name
does it have
Michael has joined
Maggi: Hi mc
Ying: Food
John:
He was here.
John: Food is a good name for it, Ying.
John: Ying, we eat
a lot of rice here, also.
Michael: Cereal...
John: Me, I like oatmeal,
myself.
Maggi: I mean the brand name Ying
Ying has left
John: I
knew that porridge and oatmeal are the same.
Ying has joined
Murilo has
joined
John: Me, a lot of cinnimon, a little sugar, and a little milk.
Maggi: Hi Murillo
John: Helo Murilo
Michael: Hello Murilo.
John:
What?????
Michael: I'm not obese!!! (very fat)
Ying: Sorry. I need to
restart my computer.
Michael: OK Ying. Murilo - can you hear us?
Ying
has left
John: I don't know him.
John: Murilo, would you like to
introduce yourself?
Felix has joined
John: Welcome back, Felix
Michael: Felix - calling Felix!
Guest432 has joined
Ying has joined
Maggi: Hi
Ying: I am back.
Maggi: 432 who are you?
Guest432 has
left
Ying: My icq just shuted down
Ying: Murilo... new friend.
Michael: I think I remember Fabricio.
Murilo: hi mike
Guest535 has
joined
Michael: Sorry - Fabrizio
Maggi: hello 535
Ying: maggi..
kids want to say bye to you.
Maggi: ok
Michael: OK - Fabricio.
John: OK, Ying
Michael: Adelaide
Ying: Where is Murilo from?
Maggi:
he is in Brazil too
Ying: Felix's friend?
Maggi: yes
Murilo: i'm
fro brazil ying
Felix: yes Ying.. We are friend's for a long time.. Real
friends.
Ying: You speak good English.. I have not chance to say someing.
LOL>
Maggi: poor Ying
Felix: he's a good speaker ying.
Felix:
lol
Murilo: ta vry much
John: I don't hear anybody right now.
Maggi: that's too bad
Michael: We ARE talking John.
John: It looks like
several people are talking at the same time.
Ying: Guest 535, May I have
your name?
Maggi: it is going fast and furious
John: To me, it looks
like more than one person has the talk button down at the same time.
Michael: Who was that???
Ying: My nephew
Guest535: hello
Maggi: her
nephew
Michael: I see!
Guest535: it's my first time to be here ,nice to
meet u all
Ying: Guest 535, you could change your name by clicking
Guest535.
Guest535: ying,it's my stephen
Maggi: nice to meet you
too
Ying: I guess it is you.
Guest535: ok,hold on a sec
Guest535
has left
stephen has joined
Ying: Do you have mic.
stephen: i dont
have a mic,so i cant talk to u this way
Michael: Fabricio.
Maggi: can
you hear Stephen?
John: Nice to meet you too,
Michael: Hi Stephen.
stephen: maggi:absolutely,i can hear u guys talking clearly :-)
stephen:
hello,michael
Michael: LOL
Murilo: whre r u from ying?
stephen:
hey,that's awesome,i cant twist my tongue that way :-)
Ying: I am from
Taiwan.
Murilo: great
John: Nice meeting you, Stephen.
Murilo has
left
stephen: same here ,john
fabricio has joined
Maggi: where are
you Stephen?
Michael: That's better!
Ying: I can not speak that way...
my toung ...
stephen: i'm in taiwan like ying
stephen: and
urself?maggi
Maggi: then rolling an r is difficult
Maggi: I am in
Germany...
John: I was hearing everybody fine, then I just lost all
audio.
Michael: lol
Michael: Beuatiful Ying!
Michael: (I'm a good
speller!)
stephen: maggi:a friend of mine is from germany too,he used to
live with me
John: I am in Puerto Rico
Maggi: where in Germany?
Ying: he or she?
Michael: Can you hear us now John?
stephen: she
Ying: But maggi is an American.. she teach English in Germany.
stephen:
i'm leaving for getting a mic now,catch up with u guys later stephen: be
back...
stephen: bye
Maggi: ok...bye
stephen has left
Michael:
Ae you there John?
John: I still cannot hear. What does it mean when three
or four names are in green?
Ying: I can not learn another language.
Michael: It means - John - that you're hearme is jammed I fabricio: u can you r
clever
Michael: ..think.
Ying: My name is purple on your screen, isn't
it?
fabricio: no ying
Ying: maggi and fabricio.. your name is green on
my screen.
Michael: Maybe your hearme is jammed too ying?
Michael: Can
you still hear people?
Ying: What do you mean "jam"? I can speak and hear
you guys clearly.
Michael: jammed = stuck
Michael: So maybe it isn't
stuck - if you can hear us.
Ying: Fabricio.. tell you a secret... your
English is better than Felix...
Michael: LOL
fabricio: no, that's not
true
fabricio: he's got a good vocabulary
John has left
Michael:
She's just trying to make Fabricio feel good!
Ying: His pronunciaton is
good.
Ying: His tone is excellent.
Michael: Be careful - Felix is
getting upset!
Ying: maggi.. why we need to be quiet in....
Michael:
smiles
Michael: Impossible!
Maggi: anything is possible
Michael:
Which movie Ying?
John has joined
Ying: I watched '8mm" last night.
Michael: I've never heard of it.
John: Sorry, I got disconnected. I
can hear again.
Michael: Great news John.
Michael: smiles
fabricio:
Mike, do you have state university in Australia????
Ying: What do you
mean.. have state university?
fabricio: universties supported by the
governenment?
Ying: He is not a principle.
John: That is right,
Fabricio
Ying: Sure.
fabricio: I mean government, sorry
Maggi: not
private Ying
John: In Puerto Rico there is a small tuition for the State
University, and a very high tuition for the privates.
Ying: Fabricio.. have
you planned to study in Austraila?
fabricio: really John?
John: That's
right, Fabricio.
John: Tuition is the amount of money you pay for each
credit. Fees are on top of this.
Ying: I think every country have State
University..
Michael: Whereas in Australia and UK tuition means learning -
it has nothing to do with money.
fabricio: I'm trying to find somewhere to
study TEFL with a low cost
John: Tuition in the University of Puerto Rico
is $35.00 per credit, while in the private schools it is over $100.00 per
credit.
Felix: I have the same wish Fabricio
Ying: Michael.. you mean
it is free to study University in Australia and UK>
John: These are
resident costs.
Michael: NO!!!
Felix: In Brazil we don't have to pay
for any credit in a Public University
Ying: Credit? you mean tution?
Felix: Right Ying!
Ying: Or you mean it is free.
John: A credit is
equal to 15 hours of classroom contact hours.
Felix: I've gotta go now
pals..... I need to read a book for tomorrow.
John: See you, Felix.
Ying: Why? You need to read a book. It is morning.
Felix: Bye all
Maggi: ok Felix...what are you reading?
Ying: bye.
Felix: A Book on
Portuguese Grammar.. (YUCK)
Maggi: igit
Felix: I do hope the same
Fab
Michael: Sounds great!
Michael: A great read!
Felix: Portuguese
Grammar is not that easy MC
Felix: bye bye
John: Nothing better than
grammar books.
Maggi: bye
Felix has left
Ying: You like to read
grammar book, John.
John: NO, I was being sarcastic.
Ying: I like the
word "sarcastic."
Michael: I like to read grammar books sometime.
Michael: COTE?
John: Yes, but it is hard to indicate it in text.
fabricio: that's it mike
John: I have my doubts about that.
Maggi: make
a smiley...
Ying: one people asked me "Are you married?" I answered... "I
am Ying not MARY."
John: But what type of smilie means Yuk.
Michael:
Are you Mary? No I'm single!
Michael: Try and say M-air-y
John: That's
how I say it, too.
fabricio: good explanation Mike
John: Mary, Marry,
and Merry all sound alike in American English.
Ying: Do you have the same
problem with me, fabricio?
fabricio: R U sure John???? Is everything / e /
? or / ae / ?
Michael: LOL
John: Well, it depends on the part of the US
you are in, but in most of the Mid West, yes, I am sure /e/.
John: Or. more
likely /E/.
fabricio: oh I see it now john
Michael: Keep the little
woman in the kitchen I say!
John: So do Puerto Rican Students.
Ying:
What's difference between /e/ and /E/?
Michael: smiles
Michael: (at
maggi)
John: /e/ is a more tense sound than /E/ ( ray insead of red)
fabricio: no difference ying, e = E, but /ae/ is different to /e/
fabricio:
John to you refer to the IPA?????
Michael: lol
John: Oh, but there is a
difference between e and E e=ray, E=red.
fabricio: International Phonetic
Alphabet?
John: Right, IPA.
fabricio: I thought that Ray was /ei/
fabricio: a Diphthong
John: Depends on the specific system.
fabricio:
oh I see
John: I tried to pick a word out of my mind instead of looking for
one.
John: Actually, Fabricio, you are right. /ei/ in English, /e/ in
Spanish.
fabricio: have u hear of the Adrian Underhill Phonemic
Chart???
fabricio: I love it
John: I lost my copy a while ago.
fabricio: very useful in the classroom
John: Well, since I teach writing
instead of pronunciation...
fabricio has left
Ying: I am confused about
the /e/ and /ei/
Ying: What's wrong with sleeping with grandpa.
John:
It depends on how tense you make the sound, Ying. The ei ends with an /i/
Ying: the place of my tongue.
fabricio has joined
John: Michael, as
for age and grandparenthood. My secretary was on 40 when she became a
grandmother.
Maggi: bye Michael
Michael: Bye all!
John: I think I'm
going to have to go, too.
Ying: It's 9:40 pm here.
stephen has
joined
John: It's 9:40 here, too. but am instead of pm.
Michael has
left
fabricio has left
John: See you all next week.
Maggi: bye
John
fabricio has joined
Ying: it began at 7:30 pm here.
fabricio:
Sorry I got disconnected
John has left
Maggi: bye Ying
fabricio has
left
fabricio has joined
Ying has left
fabricio: Stephen, do u live
in SF?
fabricio: where r u from Stephen?
Maggi: he is in Taiwan
fabricio: I've known felix for over 17 years
fabricio: that's it
fabricio: i went to school together
stephen has left
Maggi: 82956195
and her name is Marina
Maggi: bye
fabricio has left
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