Today, a student used both empathy and sympathy to describe why people tell stories. "What's the difference between those two, in your mind?" I asked him.
"I dunno," he shrugged. "It just sounded good.
"It can be a mistake to use words that you're not sure you know," I warned him. "Let me give you an example. Yesterday, one of my students greeted me by saying, Hola, mi amor."
The Spanish speaking students in the class gasped.
"I know, right?" I agreed with them. "When I told the student it was inappropriate to talk to a teacher that way, they said they didn't even know what it means."
"They didn't know they were saying they love an old lady?" asked one of the kids. "That's messed up."
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