Today, I was reading a picture storybook to a kindergarten kid. She could pronounce more words than me, and corrected me. I'm about triple her age. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? FML
Today, while at work I was reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to me class of 5 year olds. I got near the end of the book and said "Look at the big fat caterpillar" to which one of my pupils replied "Just like you, Miss!" FML
Today, I was babysitting a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. I asked her, "Do you got your bag?" And she said, "No. I have my bag. Babies say got. I'm a big girl." I am 20 years old and in the honors program in my college. I was corrected by a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. FML
Today in class I accidentally called my teacher very old and almost dead. As we were discussing a book I said that the book character is very old and close to death since it fitted to the context. Turns out this character is one year younger than my teacher and she wasn't amused. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, a friend told me that when I read, I make all the expressions the characters in the book are making. Apparently, I have been doing this since I was a kid, and no one ever told me. FML
Today, I took my toddler to a library story hour. He sat quietly for almost ten minutes, which should have been my first warning. Right as the librarian began reading a dramatic part, my son pointed at her and shouted, “That lady is very old.” FML
Today, I have learned a lot of "big" words from reading so much, but can actually only pronounce about half of them correctly. FML
Today, while at my tutoring job, a middle school kid couldn't find a word in the online dictionary. I told him he could check a regular paperback dictionary. His response was, "That's what you did in your day. That's not what we do in our day." I'm only 19. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
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Top comments
TheHinduHomie 12
An education might be in order.
Lilkat39 5
You need to go back to school. Right now.
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GhostFox 34
I love how everyone is ignoring the fact it could have been a very intelligent kindergartener. I read at a 10th grade level in kindergarten, and was reading late college level books when I was eight. Could have been the case for OP, or maybe Language is OP's weak subject. They aren't necessarily Illiterate or stupid because they had issues reading aloud.
oliviaaclairee 13
So you're 12..
Zgamerz 11
Sounds like you should triple your education.
blackonblight 33
Bah. Just because you can't pronounce them doesn't mean you don't know the word. It just means you've only come across it in written form and never needed to look it up in the dictionary. Plenty of people have huge swathes of their vocabulary in that state. Some words just don't occur in speech very often.
izzah98 10
What have you been doing during English class? Or during classes in general?
magnoliabb 14
What words could you not pronounce in a child's picture storybook???
ritsuka001 13
Maybe you need to go back to kindergarten. That's a bit pathetic, op.
TeeGee_McGee 4
Maybe you should keep reading storybooks, you might learn some things.
TheAnon1313 28
Triple the age of a kindergarten child is 12-15. How wonderful. I wouldn't fully blame you for not knowing the words, you appear to be pretty young.
TheAspieDork 27
Is English not your first language?