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July 28, 2011 7:04 PM Subscribe
This is an art called “Life is melodies.” Everybody plays their own life, and the lives are unique and fantastic. Nobody can be another person who has something which you don’t have. However, this thing applies to all of us, whoever we are.
A Japanese ESL student writes odd, sometimes lovely, four sentence stories about the pictures her tutor sends her.
She wants to be "Internet famous," even though she is anonymous. Don't we all?
She wants to be "Internet famous," even though she is anonymous. Don't we all?
Cue hordes of MeFites proclaiming they don't want to be famous or to talk up their lives on the Internet in a desperate attempt to garner Favorites from the anti 'kids today' brigade.
The caption are pretty cool, even if I'm not generally a fan of 'weird Internet pictures'.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 7:17 PM on July 28, 2011
Cue hordes of MeFites proclaiming they don't want to be famous or to talk up their lives on the Internet in a desperate attempt to garner Favorites from the anti 'kids today' brigade.
The caption are pretty cool, even if I'm not generally a fan of 'weird Internet pictures'.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 7:17 PM on July 28, 2011
I like it because I like super shirt stories with a prompt just as a rule, it's a really neat ESL exercise, and it's charming! Totally charming!
posted by The Whelk at 7:18 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:18 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Metafilter: Occasionally sharks.
posted by The Whelk at 7:19 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:19 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Also the frequent references to radiation and nuclear power are ..well obvious but not what I was expecting.
posted by The Whelk at 7:22 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:22 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
There is no way to do better than she does, given the fact that she is dealing with the strangest photos.I've.ever.friggin.seen!
posted by tomswift at 7:22 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by tomswift at 7:22 PM on July 28, 2011
Metafilter: Did you know that Beethoven was a cat?
posted by The Whelk at 7:27 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:27 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Kermit is only one true God. He made everything, even gods who is believed to make the world. The true is weirder than a novel sometimes.
Truth and beauty come from unexpected places.
posted by The Whelk at 7:31 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Truth and beauty come from unexpected places.
posted by The Whelk at 7:31 PM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
That was a minute or two NOT WASTED on the Internet, and like the Whelk, I am being sincere.
posted by kozad at 7:34 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by kozad at 7:34 PM on July 28, 2011
Oh also if you go back enough you can really see the student improving in idiom and vocab and grammar and that is super cool.
posted by The Whelk at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2011
Great googly moogly, I know this guy
He is, in fact, an artist, but not of the fabric variety (some images nsfw)
posted by louche mustachio at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2011
He is, in fact, an artist, but not of the fabric variety (some images nsfw)
posted by louche mustachio at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2011
major UHHH on this one
"The snake wants to get tanned at a car because he heard that tanned snakes are popular among young female snakes. To get tanned more effectively, he selected the car. The car has heat reflective glass. You can see a black person, but he was originally a white person."
posted by cristinacristinacristina at 8:32 PM on July 28, 2011
"The snake wants to get tanned at a car because he heard that tanned snakes are popular among young female snakes. To get tanned more effectively, he selected the car. The car has heat reflective glass. You can see a black person, but he was originally a white person."
posted by cristinacristinacristina at 8:32 PM on July 28, 2011
This is awesome, especially as an ESL excercise. And since the content is wonderful, it should be internet famous!
I'm hardly on the kids these days boat (what with being one and all, and enjoy my damn days! I'll get off your lawn if you agree to stay there.), but I am reminded of one of my favorite Banksy quotes:
You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, “I want to be famous.” You ask them for what reason and they don’t know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.
posted by Chipmazing at 8:39 PM on July 28, 2011
I'm hardly on the kids these days boat (what with being one and all, and enjoy my damn days! I'll get off your lawn if you agree to stay there.), but I am reminded of one of my favorite Banksy quotes:
You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, “I want to be famous.” You ask them for what reason and they don’t know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.
posted by Chipmazing at 8:39 PM on July 28, 2011
Reminds me of the Hark! a Vagrant and Penny Arcade ESL assignments...
posted by Gable Oak at 8:42 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by Gable Oak at 8:42 PM on July 28, 2011
Cristinacristinacristina, because he got tanned from the heat reflecting car.
posted by Brainy at 8:47 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by Brainy at 8:47 PM on July 28, 2011
I think most of these are eh and I don't really get it but like this.
posted by sweetkid at 9:58 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by sweetkid at 9:58 PM on July 28, 2011
Metafilter: This race already heated before the race started.
posted by bleep at 10:30 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by bleep at 10:30 PM on July 28, 2011
I got a fish bone in my throat as always. Waa Waaah wa wa (blues guitar riff)
I bumped into the door as always. Waa Waaah wa wa
I don’t improve my behaviors, so I repeat mistakes again and again. Waa Waaah wa wa
(Chorus) It’s my life.
posted by Not Supplied at 10:45 PM on July 28, 2011
I bumped into the door as always. Waa Waaah wa wa
I don’t improve my behaviors, so I repeat mistakes again and again. Waa Waaah wa wa
(Chorus) It’s my life.
posted by Not Supplied at 10:45 PM on July 28, 2011
I saw this today on the Tumbls. Fantastic stuff. What really did it for me is how close "A"'s sentences were to my own Japanese students'. My very favorite essay I ever read in Japan capped a long story about Sponge Bob with "I love you most, Sponge Bob and barley tea!"
Also, "However, his siblings didn't say anything because they were just bananas."
posted by gc at 10:53 PM on July 28, 2011
Also, "However, his siblings didn't say anything because they were just bananas."
posted by gc at 10:53 PM on July 28, 2011
I don't want to be internet famous, but I think I'm in love.
posted by the bricabrac man at 12:53 AM on July 29, 2011
posted by the bricabrac man at 12:53 AM on July 29, 2011
I love this girl's sense of humour, and her imagination. She's already a better writer than most native English speakers, fluency notwithstanding.
I mean, I might be able to use the word notwithstanding in a sentence, but what does that compare to this?
posted by Acey at 4:28 AM on July 29, 2011
I mean, I might be able to use the word notwithstanding in a sentence, but what does that compare to this?
posted by Acey at 4:28 AM on July 29, 2011
She wants to be "Internet famous," even though she is anonymous. Don't we all?
Hells no. My brief stint of minor Usenet fame back in the day ("You're *the* Ron Henry? **The** Ron Henry?" Yeah, I know, sad.) almost got me punched in the face at a rock concert when this goofy kid who'd been trying to impress me because I was an oldster on the newsgroup devoted to the band we were seeing decided to drunkenly start a fight with some frat boys in the row behind us because they wouldn't sing along with the hits. I restored calm somehow, then the fellow fan vomited and fell asleep. My gf was appalled (and baffled by the Usenet fame aspect: "You maintain the F.A.Q. for a fan group? So what?").
posted by aught at 7:36 AM on July 29, 2011
Hells no. My brief stint of minor Usenet fame back in the day ("You're *the* Ron Henry? **The** Ron Henry?" Yeah, I know, sad.) almost got me punched in the face at a rock concert when this goofy kid who'd been trying to impress me because I was an oldster on the newsgroup devoted to the band we were seeing decided to drunkenly start a fight with some frat boys in the row behind us because they wouldn't sing along with the hits. I restored calm somehow, then the fellow fan vomited and fell asleep. My gf was appalled (and baffled by the Usenet fame aspect: "You maintain the F.A.Q. for a fan group? So what?").
posted by aught at 7:36 AM on July 29, 2011
These are so great! And thanks to Gable Oak for reminding me about those PA ESL strips. So funny.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 7:36 AM on July 29, 2011
posted by Admiral Haddock at 7:36 AM on July 29, 2011
He is going to throw out this underpants today. He had worn it for many years, and it is a worn pants that is like impossible to wear. He has a grateful heart to the pants, so he sewed the message.
It really is hard for us guys to let go of worn-out underwear, isn't it?
posted by aught at 7:39 AM on July 29, 2011
It really is hard for us guys to let go of worn-out underwear, isn't it?
posted by aught at 7:39 AM on July 29, 2011
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