Kate Cotton

Head of German at St. Paul’s School

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@SW_Help Yes congratulations I’m now on a very delayed 3 carriage train which is packed to the gunnels and I’m lucky to have a seat - many don’t. No idea of our ETA in London and I will be further delayed as it won’t stop at Clapham Junction. This is not a way to travel.

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@SW_Help And just to be clear it is now 3 hours after I left Sherborne.

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@SW_Help Salisbury. On a very overcrowded platform. Now waiting for the 18:26 to London. Apparently indefinitely delayed. How is it that you have no information about where your trains are?

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@SW_Help Salisbury . And being de trained approximately 3 hours after I left Sherborne. Now waiting in another train to London. Zero information from SWR. Just following other passengers. How do you not know where your trains are?

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@SW_Help Yes I’m still on the train. It went from Yeovil to Westbury, then backwards to who knows where. Some information would be great.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

A SHORT POEM ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND GERMAN…

English weather is wet
German weather is Wetter

English kids are kind
German kids are Kinder

English mothers mumble
German mothers Mutter

And the English shout the word people
But Germans just quietly Menschen it

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@benphillips76 I must admit I liked the bit where one of them was trying to act all tough on camera but before that his Mum made him clear up a mess he had made. Not so alpha after all then…

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@drmaryclaire POD

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@TartanCushion @RE_McGEE @HysteroscopyA The paracetamol/ibuprofen suggestion is a total joke. If men had this anatomy, anaesthetic/sedation would be routine

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@RE_McGEE @HysteroscopyA OMG exactly this! These “minor” gynae procedures are positively medieval. It’s ridiculous in this day and age that we can’t be offered adequate pain relief. I’m so sorry this happened to you but I think a huge number of us can relate to this!

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@germanexplained Köln selbstverständlich

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@StevenFawkes @GermanEmbassy My students used to love that!

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@gianfrancocont9 I was the one who had been advocating for your approach in our department all along. I was the one who campaigned to get you in to speak . I am the one who has changed our curriculum in German so we lead with EPI. So it was doubly disappointing to be disrespected in this way.

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@gianfrancocont9 The other delegates on my table were pretty clear about what they heard. Perhaps it was just a throw away comment and you don’t remember it. But can you imagine what it was like for me to walk back into the room after that? And you may not know this, but in fact …

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@gianfrancocont9 Leading the next day, (a week long exchange in Germany) I discovered from the other delegates that you had been speculating that I was having suicidal thoughts. I wasn’t (although it speaks to the size of your ego perhaps) but I certainly don’t find that funny. Or professional2/2

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@gianfrancocont9 Well it didn’t show, but then perhaps my perspective is somewhat skewed after discovering that when I had left the room (legitimately and with the prior agreement of the Head of MFL, to prepare cover lessons and deal with practical arrangements concerning the school trip 1/2

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

English once had a complex grammar system like Latin.

Words had charts full of endings to learn.

But then it all disappeared — the only remnant is words like “he/him” and “she/her.”

Here's the fascinating story of how English lost this ancient system — and what replaced it. 🧵

[Kate Cotton @CJLewis4711]

@40PercentGerman Or: das ist nicht möglich?