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

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOP
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    7 months ago

    Nothing I’m comfortable with sharing, so I give up.

    Although there was a schoolmate who puked in the hallway once, and left everyone in the classroom scrambling to open the windows. Was the shit story a bit like that?