I was looking through some of my old things and found a postcard from the first school I taught at in Japan. When a potential customer had taken a trial lesson, the teacher was supposed to fill in this postcard and it would be sent to that student. I had to shrink the picture a bit for the web, but if you look closely you’ll see a classic mistake.
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Okay, let’s zoom in on that…
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Yep, this was made by one of the biggest English schools in Japan, a leader in English language education, a company that thousands of people across the nation study at. Apparently they printed thousands of these postcards before anyone noticed the mistake. Of course, they were withdrawn quickly and I doubt if any were actually sent out to students… not that they’d be able to read it anyway.
After they were withdrawn they were used as scrap paper. Who would have thought that this little embarrassment would appear on the internet years later!
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