Originally Posted by journeyman Mick
Well here's one that is true, happened just this last week:
My cousin's 10 year old daughter has just had her first two Indonesian language lessons at school. After only two lessons and without a dictionary or word list the teacher gave the kids a two page story to translate from Indonesian to English. My cousin sent the teacher a note complaining that it was an entirely unrealistic task to set.
She wrote the note in Dutch and added a postscript in English saying that she hoped that the teacher had as much trouble translating it as the kids did their homework.:D
(I'm not the only stirrer in our family;) )
Mick