I still sometimes think about the guy in my lower secondary school English class in probably 2016 reading the infobox on the Wikipedia article for Tanzania, and saying out loud, “Official languages: none de jure??”, pronouncing it in a heavy singsongy Norwegian accent like “NOO-nuh duh YEW-ruh??”, apparently believing “None De Jure” to be the name of some sort of obscure African language rather than just meaning “no official language”
And then I remember that this was around the same time that the teacher asked what New York was named after, and I raised my hand and answered “the Dork of York”. And then my soul goes nichijou_pencil_stab.mp4 for a bit
i like to think that a teacher who gets the shitpants never denies a request again. there’s a dignity in embarrassment improving the lives of others. what really should hapoen is those teachers get their knees broken tho
Yea no kidding, when I was a sub years later that classmate’s experience was on my mind, so I always allowed requests since you can never know what someone’s else’s body is going through exactly.