English Teacher Needs to Learn English

Lightening means to make light or lighter. Lightning is the quick discharge of electrons. The inclusion of “is a” in the first sentence is unnecessary.

Feint is a deceptive action. You can’t deceive a heart. The idiom is “faint of heart.”

Fly-by-night is describing term, so it should be hyphenated as an adjective phrase, but, really, stop with the clichés. You wouldn’t let your students turn in papers filled with clichés, would you? Wait . . . please don’t answer that.

How this “university” remains accredited is beyond me.

From Travel Channel’s “The Layover: Hong Kong”

This is the show with Anthony Bourdain. It features him in various major cities in which one is likely to have a travel layover. He shows viewers where to stay, where to eat, and what to do when you have 24 to 48 hours in a city. He bitches and moans a lot about having to wear the same shirt every day for continuity purposes, complains about his crew, and is, generally, turning into a diva. I can see why Hong Kong audiences hate him.