Marwedisms ’05
The very first entry for the Spring term was more accidental rather than Dr. Marwede attempting to be funny. He painted himself in a corner on this one, and I felt bad for him as he tried to find a way out without saying what he wanted to say.
He was talking about the a letter combination that can be pronounced with the vowel both long and short. The long way was something like, “ayss” with a long “a.” And then, of course, the short form was what he struggled to say for such a long time. He probably should have just used a Greek word as an example, but no, he had to say just the two letters. As he started to say the short “a,” I think it hit him what he was saying. He knew what I knew. It was going to sound like he was saying a word that would get me in trouble in Elementary School.
He stopped. He’s such a gentle soul. It seemed like the world stopped for him at that moment.
Then he said “ass”
In Greek, of course! The room was silent. The adolescent inside of me giggled. I feel guilty just typing that word.
I have about half of the vocab mastered for tomorrow’s quiz. I’ll probably master another 4 or 5 by quiz time. Of course, the quiz will consist of the words I don’t know! That’s the way it always is in this class.
Greek…the bane of my existence.
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potty mouth
How did I miss this? i think you’re making it up, but it’s a good story so I won’t tell. I’m actually pretty tickled about Jana yelling at Matthew Swain for waking her up in class.