Author: Iansã

Things you do not know about me, or about the rechingada madre of someone you know, that is to say, a puta que pariu.

19/04/2012

You do not know how many of our brilliant proposals have been turned down this week, for reasons having to do with unrelieved ignorance. You do not know that my student’s husband is a waiter. You do not know that the technology for our class has broken down. You do not know that the way … More Things you do not know about me, or about the rechingada madre of someone you know, that is to say, a puta que pariu.

On language teaching

18/04/2012

I do not have time to fiddle with Blogger so as to be able to comment on Shedding Khawatir‘s post, so I have to post about it. I am not interested in language teaching the way she is, but I have had the same problems about it. Shedding Khawatir complains of the professors and lecturers … More On language teaching

Noel Rosa

18/04/2012

This is the period piece the students want to watch. I think it looks hard to take, but it does make it clear that I should have haircuts and clothes from the thirties. Here, however, is the samba poet in a video relic from 1929. Here is a solo song in a better recording. Axé.

With (another part of) the party line, most emphatically.

17/04/2012

The academic advice with which I do agree is, never put any time or energy and especially not intellectual effort into program development. One of ours has been cancelled after piteous cries from the selfsame university that we help them save it. Every minute spent helping would have been better spent on research. I was … More With (another part of) the party line, most emphatically.