Grandomastery Random Proverb task, ESL student's response.

26 Dec 2022 · 2 min

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An ESL student creates two original proverbs: "Barking dogs shouldn't cry over spilled milk" (angry people shouldn't lament damage they cause) and "Worrying is bliss" (some stress helps, too much harms). The video shows their attempts to clarify and refine the phrases with a facilitator's support.

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Uh, barking dogs shouldn't cry over spilled milk. Okay, so the thing, the barking dogs, like the angry dogs, and when you're angry, you're like raging, you're just crushing all this stuff. You shouldn't cry of what you may— what you broke. Mm-hmm. It's like, because you broke it, you don't need to cry. You Yeah, it's very hard. Very hard.
So it means that they shouldn't cry. They should be busy with balls.
They shouldn't cry if they rage out in a nice computer game and break everything.
Right. That's a good one. The next one.
Okay. Worrying is bliss. When you worry, you add stress and a little bit. That little bits of stress. Is good for mental health. Yes, like too much stress—it's awful. You have headaches, you have everything. But a little stress—it's just good. Yeah, worrying is less. Oh, I really want to use this as a real idiom. This actually looks like a real idiom. Okay, don't tell no tales. Okay, can you restart please?
Of course. Well, I'd say just when we're in doubt, we, we're not sure. So we're—
yeah, we're very in doubt. We're not sure.