Optional@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoTeachers are not having a good timelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTeachers are not having a good timelemmy.worldOptional@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaree_chao@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThis is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written “whom I married.”
minus-squareulterno@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThey are only stopping the “who I married”-teachers form selecting the books. The “whom I married”-teachers get to select the book for them.
minus-squareulterno@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI’m just interpreting the meme. No real life exp here. That stuff is depressing
minus-squareGojuRyu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoNon native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?
minus-squaree_chao@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI think you’re right. The clause should actually be something like “disclose to my students the gender of my spouse.” How does that sound?
This is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written “whom I married.”
They are only stopping the “who I married”-teachers form selecting the books.
The “whom I married”-teachers get to select the book for them.
It’s the other way around.
I’m just interpreting the meme. No real life exp here. That stuff is depressing
Non native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?
I think you’re right. The clause should actually be something like “disclose to my students the gender of my spouse.” How does that sound?