http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/09/22/milkfish/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/09/22/milkfish/comment-page-1/#comment-5597 Keywords » Freshman Chinese Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:23:25 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2513#comment-5597 [...] This semester we just learned of some funds that would be made available for just this purpose. Not nearly as much as is needed, but something nonetheless. Now the discussion is starting about how to best spend these funds. I made the argument that these funds should not be spent on English lessons, as someone had suggested, but on Chinese lessons. A funny argument to be made by someone who can’t tell the difference between his wife and a fish, but based on my experience grading papers last semester I think it is the right one to make. [...] [...] This semester we just learned of some funds that would be made available for just this purpose. Not nearly as much as is needed, but something nonetheless. Now the discussion is starting about how to best spend these funds. I made the argument that these funds should not be spent on English lessons, as someone had suggested, but on Chinese lessons. A funny argument to be made by someone who can’t tell the difference between his wife and a fish, but based on my experience grading papers last semester I think it is the right one to make. [...]

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