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| Vance | Maggi | Michael | John | Ying Lan | Felix |
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and a mystery guest, silent and never identified
Here are some things we talked about today:
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John: Michael, I cannot hear you. Morning, Vance.
Ying: hi. Vance.
Vance: Hi, couldyou hear me?
Vance: I can't hear Michael either.
Maggi: Vance and Ying come through
John: Michael, I can hear you clearly (but nobody else.)
Vance: is very clear
John: Sorry, It was
Maggi: now I hear you mc
John: Vance I could hear. Now I can hear you, Michael.
Maggi: ok
Ying: You have to drive what?
Michael: I'm going 200 k into the country to deliver a workshop.
Maggi: drive where?
Michael: I'm going to Port Pirie.
Maggi: not the outbacks yet eh?
Maggi: 200 k is nothing
Ying: Have a vacation in summer..
Michael: Not the outback, nor the donga, nor whoop whoop (that was the other one)
Ying: what kind of workshop?
Ying: internet trainning camp
Michael: A training workshop for staff (teachers) on using the Internet
Maggi: camp is more sleeping in a tent
John: Those long trips always killed me.
Michael: brb....
Maggi: 200k is a long trip?
John: Takes me two hours just to drive 90 KM here.
Maggi: maybe on an island...
Maggi: you could almost fly in a car here
Ying: In Chinese.. we always say... camp not workshop.
Maggi: lots of people drive over 200 k an hour
Michael: I'm back.
Maggi: now Ying is breaking up...
Maggi: men can chew the cud too!
John: Of course we can, Maggi.
Michael: 2 - 2.5 hours for 200 k's.
Maggi: spit better too!
John: Don't know about that. You should see my daughters spit.
Maggi: lol...they practiced
Maggi: your spoiled Vance
John: Of course. They had a good teacher.
John: When I have school business, they give me a car and a driver.
Maggi: ROTFL::::
Maggi: anyrthing?
John: Our driver likes to stop at the Mall and have us go shopping on the way back home from meetings and workshops.
Maggi: kill two birds with one stone
Ying: why I call what... I can not hear your voice. ..
Michael: why you called a workshop a camp..
Maggi: you faded out mc
Maggi: I here you Vance and John
Michael: yep
Ying: I hear you.. maggi.
Michael: i can hear everybody!
Maggi: weird
John: This sort of scares me -- What's going to go wrong?
Michael: weird = unusual
John: There's a what?
Vance: I'm getting multiple greens and no sound
John: I get pings in my earphones?
Maggi: see...there it goes...
John: ????
John: Vance, that happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
John: I get pings sometimes.
Maggi: she's very busy at the moment
Maggi: working on the web site too
Ying: Who is she?
John: That sounds like a good idea, Michael.
Michael: the lady from Jamaica.
Maggi: Bridgett lives in Jamaca
John: That's another thing men do well, Maggi.
Vance: Now I'm stuck on green
Vance: What do you think, Ying Lan?
Vance: About the t-shirt design?
John: It took my department almost three years from the time we first thought about tee shirts until we finally had them made.
Vance: Pass the buck, Michael
John: Maggi said that you and Vance were passing the buck.
Vance: snap
John: It was a continuation of a previous conversation.
Michael: I see!
Vance: We would get a sponsor to pay the money
Michael: Are you eating again Vance?
Michael: lol
Vance: Someone who has a business relating to webheads
Michael: Who? Nettie?
John: No, didn't know about it.
Ying: Nettis is well off?
John: What does her company make or sell?
John: Good Night, Michael.
Michael: Good night from me!
John: You too, Michael. Have fun tomorrow.
Ying: good night.
Michael: Thanks Maggi/Vance.
Maggi: slaap lekker
Ying: have fun
Vance: Break a leg is a way to wish good luck
Michael: Bye!
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Ying: Bread a leg...
Vance: Break
Maggi: bread it only if you want to eat it...LOL
John: Ying, you don't wish a performer good luck. It is bad luck to say that, so people say break a leg.
Ying: It is sarcastic?
Maggi: Americans do this not all other culures
John: No, I thinig it is a superstition, Ying.
John: sorry, Think
Maggi: like Germans open umbrellas inside to dra...
Maggi: dry
Maggi: but hey never wish someone happy birthday BEFORE the day
Maggi: bad luck
John: ButI thought opening an umbrella inside was bad luck.
Maggi: but I suck air every time I see all those open umbellas in the hall
John: Ah, yes.
Maggi: for Americans yes John...not Germans
John: Yes, Ying, saying break a leg is superstitious.
John: Maggi, how about walking under a ladder?
Maggi: the thing with the birthday congrats is causing me some grief
Vance: Why's that?
John: Yes, it has to be someone who is going to perform.
Ying: "Break a leg" only for a proformer.
Ying: performer
John: That's right, Ying.
Vance: a performer, yeah I think so
Maggi: it's ok to say it here up to weeks after...so I don't need to remember birthdays
Maggi: which has me in deep poop with American and British friends
John: That would be great for me. The only birthday I ever remember is my wife's.
Maggi: it is really practical
John: I went to class one evening, (as a student) wrote the date on the paper and realized it was my birthday.
Vance: That's a good one John.
Maggi: geez John...talk about being in a fog...:-)
Vance: I was hitchhiking with my wife one day ..
Vance: only she wasn't my wife yet ...
John: It was a few years ago. I was still working on my undergraduate degree.
Vance: and we got to talking about birthdays
Vance: and the driver asked when my bday was
John: And it was her birthday?
Vance: and I said, 'Yesterday'
Vance: So, it was my future wife who was embarassed
John: So, what did the driver say?
John: Ah, so.
John: She had forgotten.
Vance: He said ...
John: My wife never remembers birthdays and other such things. She says they are not important.
Ying: Your fuuture wife now bobby
Vance: happy birthday!!
Maggi: hey...nobody is perfect...:-)
Vance: Yep, Bobbi
John: No, My birthday is in January.
Ying: Bobbi.
John: So, did anybody ever find out about resistors and capacitors?
John: I was going to look it up, but forgot all about it.
Ying: I am stupid about ... electrical stuff.
John: Guess it wasn't important enough. Especially with elections coming up.
John: So, Vance, did you do your civic duty yet?
Ying: What were you talking about maggi.. I am wrong.
John: Yeah, I would have problems voting if I was in the states. None of them convince me.
John: Here, I'll take my wife and youngest daughter to the polls. My wife and I will vote statehood, and my daughter will vote indepenence
Vance: I can see your icon light up green John, but I can't hear you.
John: sorry Independence
John: My icon? I haven't tried talking for a few minutes now.
Ying: You don't like Bush?
John: I don't like any of them.
Maggi: you do Ying?
Ying: I have no idea with two people.
John: I always thought that was a quality of a good polititian -- talk for an hour and say absolutely nothing.
Ying: We have a big problem here...
John: What is it, Ying?
Ying: I don't know how to say it in English...
John: Nuclear electrical factory? Is that what you said?
Maggi: same with managers in business and Bush went to Yale
John: sorry, say
Ying: yes.
John: Hmmm.
Ying: Our president have decided not to build the Nuclear electrical frcory..
John: So, here, if the governor decided to build one, nobody would like it.
Ying: But KKT wants to stop the policy ..
Ying: they theart ... to let our president not to be president.
Ying: How to say this stitution in English.
Vance: I read about this. It's a plant that's already half built, right?
Vance: They want to impeach him
Ying: YES
Vance: Talk about changing horses in mid-stream
Ying: they want to pull him out of the stage.
Ying: it is serous more than impeach.
Ying: serious
John: Be back in a minute -- nature calls.
Vance: more serious than
Ying: It is more serious than impeach.
Maggi: impeachment
Ying: Talk about changing horses in mid-stream.. what is this.
John: In what way, Ying?
Ying: Can you wait second... I check it ..
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John: Vance, while waiting for Ying to check it, your presentation the 13th is at 8:00 est, right?
John: Morning, Felix.
Vance: That's correct John
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John: Hope I can make it. That's 9:00 my time.
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Vance: aaargghhh can't hear you Felix
Ying: hi , felix
Felix: hi maggi, hi john
Felix: hi ying
Felix: everyone is so quiet!!!!!!! why?
Vance: I can't hear you so well,
John: Hi, Felix. Is this course like a convention?
John: We have one coming up this month. But it is only 4 days.
John: Remember who, Felix?
John: Your voice seems to be breaking up.
John: I'm having trouble hearing you, Vance. Your voice is breaking up a little.
Felix: Fabricio.
Felix: He's going with me.
Felix: Where are you now John?
Felix: It's my f****** damn microphone
Felix: what?
John: Could be my earphones.
Vance: No worries. Just wondering what you're up to these days.
Ying: The three major opposition parties want to recall our president.
Vance: We miss you. Now it's just Ying Lan who'se here wek after week.
Vance: Oh, isn't recall like impeachment?
Felix: ok pals... I've gotta go. Need to pack my clothes
Vance: Just go in what you're wearing. Stay and talk to us!
John: OK, Felix, good luck.
Vance: No need to pack.
Vance: Tell Fabricio to pack two bags
John: I think recall and impeachment a the same, but I'm not exactly sure.
Vance: seriously, nice talking to you. Have a good trip
Felix: thanks Vance
Felix: bye bye all
Maggi: bye Felix
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John: Yes, he does seem like a nice guy.
John: Vance, your voice just faded away.
Vance: I've got to go anyway. I have an Arabic class tonight.
Ying: ok
John: Have fun in class tonight.
Vance: Hang on, I just thought of something I need to do here.
Ying: To learn Arabic by watching TV.
Maggi: Have fun Vance...
Vance: I have to go next door for a moment
John: Or movies, Ying.
Vance: No, I have a class at the Alliance Francais
Vance: That way, if the other students speak French, for me at least it's another foreign language
John: Vance, before you joined, Ying and I were talking about movies and TV as a way of learning languages.
Vance: oh, yeah, we're trying to get into video capture here and production of materials using video clips
Maggi: good way to learn the latest slang too
Vance: for sure
John: Sure is.
Maggi: and culture
John: We use movies in our classes, and the students watch them in the Language Laboratory.
Ying: But I can not learn new word from watching TV
John: Why not, Ying?
Ying: Because I don't know how to spell it.
Ying: Sometimes, I don't get the word from voice...
John: They sell TVs now that write out what they are saying.
Ying: I have Chinses sub-title.
John: Closed Captioning is what they call it.
John: Ours is set for English, so when we are watching Spanish TV it comes out really weird.
Vance: Yes, that's an excellent system. For example, all CNN is closed captioned
John: Most programs in Puerto Rico have closed captioning.
Ying: Really.. I never see CNN with closed captioned.
Maggi: you can join CNN Newsroom and get tapescripts
Vance: You have to turn the Closed Captioning on
John: I think you can also get tapescripts from other stations.
Maggi: as a student and teacher
Maggi: not all tv's have it Vance
Vance: All tvs made in the USA the past couple of years have been required to have it
John: If you don't have it (One of ours does, the other doesn't) you have to but a little box to see it.
Maggi: We don't all live in the US
Ying: I don't know where to but it in
Vance: Any idea where to get those little boxes, John?
Ying: Taiwan.
John: No, I don't, but I think they can be found in electronics stores.
Ying: buy
John: We are experimenting with closed captioning for reading comprehension.
John: But we bought TV's with it already installed.
Maggi: hard to read, watch and listen at he same time
John: Sure is, but the chairperson got it funded, so we are working on it.
John: We are also in the process of eliminating our traditional listening laboratory and putting in a TELL Center.
Maggi: what is TELL?
Vance: You can capture the closed caption on your computer, stream it in as you watch tv
John: Technology Enhanced Language Learning -- uses computers, etc.
John: That is one of our ideas, Vance.
Maggi: like CALL
Ying: Call
Ying: what is the CALL?
Maggi: computer assisted language learning
John: Yes, but the chancellor liked Technology instead. Computer Assisted langauge Learning, Ying.
Maggi: leaves you open to a wider field John...:-)
John: So, is anybody going to attend Vance's presentation the 13th?
John: It sure does, Maggi.
Maggi: I'm working
Vance: Actually, we have two presentations that day, Michael is giving one too
John: So am I, but I hope to be there.
Maggi: Michael will be there
John: Really, when is Michael's?
Vance: I'll announce it on Webheads
Vance: Michael's is 2:30 a.m. GMT
John: Last time I attended a virtual conference I got sick in the middle -- and had students evaluations all day.
Vance: mine is 13:00 GMT
John: 2:30 GMT would be 10:30 EST?
Vance: I'll get that announcement out
John: No, 9:30
Maggi: 3.30 am for me and 14.00
John: I'll look it up in the program.
Ying: I am sorry. ... I have to go now.
Ying: sleepy
John: See you later, Ying.
Vance: Well you don't have to work for the first one then, Maggi ..
Maggi: bye Ying...
Ying: bye
Vance: Yeah, see you Ying Lan. Nice to see my favorite student again.
Maggi: for the first one I am asleep
Ying: Thanks Vance....
John: It's 9:00 AM my time (and 10:30 for Michael's)
Vance: (yeah, just kidding Maggi)
Ying: I am not a good student...
John: Why not, Ying?
Ying: I join UV course... too many new word I don't know.
Vance: You are an excellent, persistent, and dedicated webhead, which I think is a kind of student
John: I think you are a very good student.
Vance: Ying Lan, anyone who attends any kind of class for two years each week is the BEST kind of student
Maggi: not knowing new words does NOT make you a bad student Ying...:-)
John: Definitely!
John: If you knew everything in the class, you wouldn't need to take it.
Ying: But most of your conversation... I don't understand it.
Vance: You must be improving more than other people who were at your same level when you started
Maggi: sure you do Ying...:-)
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Vance: You should ask us whenever you want explanation
John: Our conversation is a bit technical right now, but you seem to be understanding it fairly well.
Maggi: Hi 282
John: Hi, 282
Vance: We sometimes talk to each other in familiar ways
Maggi: it's good exposure Ying...
Vance: We use a lot of idioms
Vance: Hi 282, use Options to change your name
Maggi: which you don't need to use but get the meaning behind it.
John: We are curious, too, Ying.
John: One dark day in the middle of the night
Vance: Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back
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Maggi: well...now we will never know
John: two dead boys had a fight.
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Maggi: sounds like some of the ghost stories my trainees wrote last week
John: Welcome back, Guest282. Can you tell us your name?
John: a deaf policeman heard the noise
Maggi: yeh John...why?
John: pulled out his gun and killed the two dead boys.
Vance: he's being enigmatic
John: No, it's an old story I just remembered.
Maggi: facitious
Maggi: oops
John: If you don't believe this tale so tall,
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Vance: facetious
Vance: ??
John: just ask the blind man, he saw it all.
Maggi: tongue-in-cheek
John: Not serious.
John: Oh, I'm a fish.
Maggi: I see said the blind man
John: I don't know what you would call it. I learned this poem as a very young child. It is full of impossibilities and idiomatic expressions.
Maggi: do you drink like one John?
John: That's what I meant, Maggi.
John: Especially European Beer (don't give me any of this water they call beer down here.)
Vance: When I said, "John, we didn't know you drank until now," was I being facetious?
Maggi: I know what you mean!
John: I thought you were being serious.
John: I have a theory that all English teachers drink.
Maggi: ROTFL:::
John: sounds good to me, Ying.
Vance: exactly
John: Right.
Maggi: great!
Ying: Thanks
John: Actually, Vance, were you being facetious?
John: ???
Maggi: no, he drinks too John!
Ying: Do you have what meaning?
John: Didn't hear you very well.
Maggi: among other things....:-)
Vance: I have a wee drop now and then.
John: Like I said -- all English teachers.
Vance: (wee = small)
Vance: Wee is Scottish
Maggi: the Irish use it too...the wee people
Ying: this time,,, I want to go.. see you next week. Enjoy your scottish.
Vance: Do you mean my Scotch?
Vance: hic
Maggi: bye Ying!
John: Bye Ying.
Vance: Bye, nice to see you again.
Vance: See you next week
Vance: And I'm going too.
Ying: See
John: I thought that was what you meant by Scottish, Vance.
Ying: See you
John: See you Vance.
Maggi: I don't drink the hard stuff...
John: I guess I better be going, too.
Vance: OK John, nice to see you again too.
Maggi: well then ... let's all go!
John: Nice seeing all of you again.
Maggi: Bye guys!
Vance: Yep, one two three ...
Maggi: hic
Ying has left
Maggi: one down
John has left
Vance: How many of those are you going to drink, Maggi?
Maggi: two down
Maggi: one to go
Vance: You'd better go slow on that stuff.
Maggi: :-)
Maggi: merci
Vance: Sipping the last one, I hope.
Maggi: sure
Maggi: bye
Vance: ok, I just got the logs, so three is about down
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