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gochubandit
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 Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: wtf?? my kid called me a sphinx |
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does this have some cultural reference i'm missing? is it code for "dumb ass ignorant teacher?"
of course, i was grilling her for answers, in a teasing sort of manner, and she was smiling and laughing, so maybe not.
she kept saying i'm a sphinx cuz "i eat up all the answers and am always hungry for more."
wtf? |
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c1204887
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: Its not Korean |
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It is not a Korean insult. It is an old story about a Sphinx gaurding something ( Iheard the story when I was young and am sketchy about the specifics). The Sphix asks everyone who wants to pass him a question and refuses all the answers.
I think this is what she may have being refering too, if not is sound similar and is a freaky coincidence.  |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: Re: Its not Korean |
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| c1204887 wrote: |
It is not a Korean insult. It is an old story about a Sphinx gaurding something ( Iheard the story when I was young and am sketchy about the specifics). The Sphix asks everyone who wants to pass him a question and refuses all the answers.
I think this is what she may have being refering too, if not is sound similar and is a freaky coincidence. |
I thought that was the Oracle....will look up later.
As to the OP, never heard of it.
!shoosh
Ryst
PS: At least you weren't called a sphinctor! |
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gochubandit
Joined: 29 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: |
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It is not a Korean insult. It is an old story about a Sphinx gaurding something ( Iheard the story when I was young and am sketchy about the specifics). The Sphix asks everyone who wants to pass him a question and refuses all the answers.
I think this is what she may have being refering too, if not is sound similar and is a freaky coincidence. |
The Sphinx
Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that there was
danger to his throne and life if his new-born son should be
suffered to grow up. He therefore committed the child to the
care of a herdsman, with orders to destroy him; but the herdsman,
moved to pity, yet not daring entirely to disobey, tied up the
child by the feet, and left him hanging to the branch of a tree.
Here the infant was found by a herdsman of Polybus, king of
Corinth, who was pasturing his flock upon Mount Cithaeron.
Polybus and Merope, his wife, adopted the child, whom they called
OEdipus, or Swollen-foot, for they had no children themselves,
and in Corinth OEdipus grew up. But as OEdipus was at Delphi,
the oracle prophesied to him that he should kill his father and
marry his own mother. Fighting against Fate, OEdipus resolved to
leave Corinth and his parents, for he thought that Polybus and
Merope were meant by the oracle.
Soon afterwards, Laius being on his way to Delphi, accompanied
only by one attendant, met in a narrow road a young man also
driving in a chariot. On his refusal to leave the way at their
command, the attendant killed one of his horses, and the
stranger, filled with rage, slew both Laius and his attendant.
The young man was OEdipus, who thus unknowingly became the slayer
of his own father.
Shortly after this event the city of Thebes was afflicted with a
monster which infested the high-road. It was called the Sphinx.
It had the body of a lion, and the upper part of a woman. It lay
crouched on the top of a rock, and stopped all travellers who
came that way, proposing to them a riddle, with the condition
that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who
failed should be killed. Not one had yet succeeded in solving
it, and all had been slain. OEdipus was not daunted by these
alarming accounts, but boldly advanced to the trial. The Sphinx
asked him, "What animal is that which in the morning goes on four
feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" OEdipus
replied, "Man, who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in
manhood walks erect, and in old age with the aid of a staff."
The Sphinx was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she
cast herself down from the rock and perished.
The gratitude of the people for their deliverance was so great
that they made OEdipus their king, giving him in marriage their
queen Jocasta. OEdipus, ignorant of his parentage, had already
become the slayer of his father; in marrying the queen he became
the husband of his mother. These horrors remained undiscovered,
till at length Thebes was afflicted with famine and pestilence,
and the oracle being consulted, the double crime of OEdipus came
to light. Jocasta put an end to her own life, and OEdipus,
seized with madness, tore out his eyes, and wandered away from
Thebes, dreaded and abandoned hy all except his daughters, who
faithfully adhered to him; till after a tedious period of
miserable wandering, he found the termination of his wretched
life.
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how do u like that? you may be rite. thanks for the tip. |
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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Here's a sphinx from a fantasy movie that may job your memory. It's from the Neverending Story, one of my all time favourites.
In the movie it is refered to as the Southern Oracle.
http://www.neverendingstory.com/images/Image088.jpg |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps the kid meant to call you a sphincter? |
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Ryst Helmut
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Arghhhh...I thought my answer sounded plagairised! Danke.
!Shoosh
Sphinctor |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| My one friend a couple boys kept calling her "puppy" in English. They sort of assumed the direct English translation was as insulting. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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You know the myth about the sphynx? It just sat there and asked a bunch of questions nobody was able to answer.
Actually your student is pretty clever to come up with that off the top of her head. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| fidel wrote: |
| Perhaps the kid meant to call you a sphincter? |
Or maybe a "Spinks". Maybe the OP was knocked out really quickly by Mike Tyson in the late-80s. I bet that's it.
Sparkles*_* |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| My one friend a couple boys kept calling her "puppy" in English. They sort of assumed the direct English translation was as insulting. |
I have one demon child who calls me "dog baby". I slap him around a bit, no worries. |
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Bee Positive
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject: ��! ���� ����! |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| My one friend a couple boys kept calling her "puppy" in English. They sort of assumed the direct English translation was as insulting. |
I have one demon child who calls me "dog baby". I slap him around a bit, no worries. |
It could be worse.
If you had a first name like mine, your students would be calling you "MacDonald Duck."
The laughs never end!
I've been called "sphinx" once or twice too, and think that it means, sure enough, "We don't have any idea what the heck you're talking about!"
Happily, some of the better kids were going to bat for me earlier today with a well-timed "��! ���� ����!" aimed at the rowdier, noisier ones.
Seems to work. Should be the first phrase we learn.
BEE POSITIVE |
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Shooter McGavin
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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What I want to know is wtf is with "crazy?" Everything is crazy. "Teacher you are crazy." "Teacher, so and so is crazy." "This book is crazy."
I would like to be called Sphinx instead of crazy, or getting a whiny "I dooonnnnn knoooooowwww!" I guess they could be saying worse though. |
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poof
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If the kid is to later call you 'Brazilian,' then it may suggest that 'Sphinx' is a reference to bikini waxing. Are you bald, by any chance?  |
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gochubandit
Joined: 29 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| What I want to know is wtf is with "crazy?" Everything is crazy. "Teacher you are crazy." "Teacher, so and so is crazy." "This book is crazy." |
i get this sometimes too. but they say it in korean. and i THINK they may be saying it about me. probably not but i wouldn't know for sure. do you catch you're kids calling you crazy? if they did, i'd be pretty offended actually. but is it meant in an offensive way? |
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