Oh, my. I wouldn't want to judge from one email, but I will....somehow I don't think that student will do very well in a class with a teacher that actually has standards and enforces them. You must be a very patient woman. There's no way I could put up with people like that on a daily basis and remain sane!
Peaches | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 4:08 pm | #

I was cumin down with a th ing once.

Got arrested.

WF
Wes F. in North Adams | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 4:29 pm | #

If you were making this up it would be funny. Not that it isn't funny anyway but you know.
tommy | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 5:18 pm | #

Is this a student whose second language is English? If this is an actual college student or an adult going back to school for a degree, then that's it! There is no hope for our country. We should pack it in right now.

But, wait. There is another possibility. Perhaps he can't type, or he dictated the e-mail and his voice recognition software is on the blink.... please say there is a rational explanation!!!
srp | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 5:57 pm | #

see, i only like these things because they perfectly illustrate one of my theories: that people are IDIOTS. durr!

this is actually worse than (well, on the level of) my low-level sixth-graders. and they DO NOT get away with writing like this! harrumph.

people who can't spell are stupid. GRR!
Julie | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 6:26 pm | #

That is unbelieveable! I don't know how you can stand to be in the same room with them, day after day.

And stimulating - you must be - to say the least. Be careful when he/she comes back to class. You might have to pull a curtain around him/her.....LOL
kenju | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 7:02 pm | #

P.S. Here's what you can find out about me:

Judy _____ downloaded an MP3 remix of The Bangle's pro-terrorist Islamic hymn "Walk Like An Egyptian."
kenju | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 7:04 pm | #

It's not a student of ESL. I teach 'em in high school and college and they don't write like this.

Thankfully.
NYC Educator | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 7:20 pm | #

Um...I think, perhaps, and I don't mean to be rude, but, ahem, you may be *less* stimulating than you thought. Given that he, you know, did *not* cum in class this or last week. But perhaps he's just having a problem with his th ing.

But at least he has "peoples". So there's that.
Mellie Helen | Homepage | 09.21.06 - 7:23 pm | #

Is this email from Beavis or Butthead?

Either that or this kid has a golden career opportunity as a ghost-writer for spammers.
Headless Unicorn Guy | 09.21.06 - 7:58 pm | #

P.S. Notice how this Beavis & Butthead understudy spells "come" as "cum"? As in "i did not cum in class this or last week"? (All that is missing is the B&B "Heh-huh. Heh-huh. Heh-huh.")

Can you say "Freudian Slip"?
Headless Unicorn Guy | 09.21.06 - 8:00 pm | #

There are windswept crags in Indiana?!
bonnie | Homepage | 09.22.06 - 2:06 am | #

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry over that e-mail. I get some that are a bit grammatically or spelling challenged, but NEVER any that bad.

I think if I got one that bad, I'd send it back saying, "I can't understand what you're saying. Please rephrase this e-mail in standard English." But then I'd probably get in trouble...
fillyjonk | Homepage | 09.22.06 - 10:39 am | #

Yeah, filly. Asking for "standard English" is just asking to get smacked down with the race card.
Headless Unicorn Guy | 09.22.06 - 12:38 pm | #

Unbelieveable! Please tell me it's not real! I want it to be a not believable thing. Can I check it on Snopes?

How did this person even get accepted to college?
Alice-Anne | Homepage | 09.22.06 - 7:10 pm | #

WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Mercy.
Ms. Cornelius | Homepage | 09.24.06 - 10:56 pm | #

This is beautiful.
So, it's next week already, did he do it?
Goldie | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 1:43 pm | #