I took Latin in high school, and the teacher in Latin 3 would quiz us on vocab periodically. One kid never knew the answers, would always say "I don't know". So one day, the teacher calls on the kid, asks him a Latin 1 word - nescio*. Kid says "I don't know". Teacher says "YES!"
My parents put me in a Cantonese class when I was young. We were learning the numbers 1-5. The teacher asked me to say them out loud. I said "1,2,3,4...hmm", I forgot 5. "Correct!". I was confused. Apparently 5 sounds like mmm.
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imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 145d
I took Latin in high school, and the teacher in Latin 3 would quiz us on vocab periodically. One kid never knew the answers, would always say "I don't know". So one day, the teacher calls on the kid, asks him a Latin 1 word - nescio*. Kid says "I don't know". Teacher says "YES!"
* Nescio means "I don't know"
einkorn@feddit.org · 7 pts · 144d
That sound an awful lot like the teacher who refused to give me an F like most others in class.
Unlike them I didn't cheat ...
jif@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 144d
My parents put me in a Cantonese class when I was young. We were learning the numbers 1-5. The teacher asked me to say them out loud. I said "1,2,3,4...hmm", I forgot 5. "Correct!". I was confused. Apparently 5 sounds like mmm.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 144d
“You’re out of your element, Donnie!”
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 144d
Ve care about nossing
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 144d
Nice marmot.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
“I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”