Implicit sex education in uni.

I'm taking this course in uni entitled Financial Reporting of Corporations. And my lecturer is this lady from Hong Kong who goes by the name of Janet Lee.

Her English, like many others from her country, is heavily accented, and musical. Musical in such a way that their sentences are like lyrical. Like they're singing songs when they speak English. Really interesting.

Anyway, during our replacement lecture yesterday (due to a holiday on Wednesday), I took the trouble to listen to her words, and notice how not-correctly pronounced they were. In the process, I discovered how meaningful and totally wrong our lecture was. Wrong not as in not right, wrong as in "Oh, that is soooo wrong!". If you get my drift.

So she says words like blod (broad), assess (assets), potucshen (production), warchers (watches), ditribeaushen (distribution), dos (those), depaytebel (debatable). She also blinks a lot and smiles with every word she says. Smiling is not such a bad thing. But with every word? That's just crossing into scary.

And then after all these mispronounced words, she throws us the big whopper. Probably she didn't do it on purpose. Heck, I knew she didn't. But, hey, you're lecturing. You should watch what you say.

While showing us a question for us to work on in the lecture, she said this:

"Just make it bigger, then we can move it up and down."
(say it with the Hong Kong accent, way cooler)

I mean, you'll say I'm dirty, but take that at face value. How wrong.






To clear your minds up and to avoid any lawsuits, she was talking bout a projection. She was using the projector, and she was trying to fit the entire question in one viewing, but the words were too small, so she had to enlarge it. Then she debated with herself (and with actions) whether to make the words larger or smaller, and then she said THAT.

So, yes, don't worry, ANU is still a good uni. It's so good that they even slip some sex education into your studies. How totally thoughtful.