[etni] Re: A terrific, unique student's blooper

Gotta add my favorite example (from university): in a paper on the Greek
play "Oedipus Rex" a student wrote: "Oedipus *shades* his father's blood and
*slips* with his mother". Freud would agree.

Doron




On 5/28/08, Michele Ben <mggben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In order to figure it out, write "urinal" in Hebrew.   A few years ago a
> student informed me in an essay that "The Israeli government is always
> urinal."  He might have had a point...
> Michele
>
>  On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Fruma Cohen <fruma2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> A student wrote :  My life was urinal.
>>
>> We couldn't figure it out, we pondered for an entire day.
>>
>> The next day she explained she had intended  :  My life  changed.
>>
>> Figure out the Hebrew that she had translated.  Fruma
>>
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