paulw on news Simplifying the Art of English Writing(17 comments)
Errr, Mr nzteacher80, maybe try recasting a little nugget like "I know plenty of students and teachers that can write very well" to read "..students and teachers who write very well". Ha, omfg really, the thick reefs of irony in these fora are scintillating. Full Comment>>
paulw on ramityagi 's blog The Chinese Dream(1 comments)
Absolute, total blather. No, wait, I apologise for my earlier mistake. Half drivel, half blather. Full Comment>>
paulw on news Number of Foreign Thieves in Shanghai on the Rise(33 comments)
Dear Lord_Hanson, as an observationI retired from lecturing and moved into fin sector, and I even did a week of classes at a high school 30some yrs ago, and in my observation (having taught and managed across a few continents) 99.9% of everyone is copying for the book. In fact, true originality occurs at the same ... Full Comment>>
paulw on news “Lazy” Shanghai Student Shocks Peers with Early Admission to Oxford (15 comments)
..as opposed to the entitled, self-righteous, ethically ambiguous, self interested mores of, say, the middle classes? Full Comment>>
paulw on news Kunming Locals Call Police on Foreigners Pretending to Shoot Birds (17 comments)
I've been all over, all over, and among various things pushed into my face over the years, a surprisingly sharp Federales' muzzle. People, including soldiers and police get very nervous when looking upon a toy/replica firearm, and very sadly they shoot children down dead for holding up toy guns with alarming ... Full Comment>>
paulw on news 5 Reasons I am back in China: Reverse Culture Shock is Real(62 comments)
I'm not in PRC 365days, and this site is an amusement for me on my phone during private moments of a morning, but am here and there enough to lose ordinarily resident status in my home country, which is a clue to my perspective on this particular little nugget. You won't tend to see us driving anything decent in PRC ... Full Comment>>
paulw on GaliaSlavova 's blog The Administration Horror or How not to loose nerves when dealing with Administrative issues(12 comments)
..in other words, there is a strong demand from the training market. The demand exists because of a reality universally understood. At least, almost universally. Full Comment>>
paulw on GaliaSlavova 's blog The Administration Horror or How not to loose nerves when dealing with Administrative issues(12 comments)
.umm, well, POSITIONSEEKER01, maybe not really. And there's an irony there mayhaps? Your written English is understandable, but I'm sure anyone would agree that it is also stilted, and relies on too many overweened pomposities to be anything but ESL. You go on mining the irony, making conflated contradictions, e.g. ... Full Comment>>
paulw on news Settling Down in China? Understanding The Chinese Spousal Visa(28 comments)
..umm, sorry Guest2239322, but just can't be done, because of grown-ups stuff like national sovereignty, the fact that states have never been in a position nor have sought large scale changes in another state's immigration policy, the fact that immigration decisions are an exercise of a prerogative power of ... Full Comment>>
paulw on news Simplifying the Art of English Writing(17 comments)
..yes, it's true, these and many other snippets are peppered throughout student essays in every country of the Anglophone world. Students in China should adopt them more and more, and so then more closely approximate those student drivellings common to the lands from whence their estimable teachers have come.. eh. FFS Full Comment>>