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Corporal
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I recently asked a student teasingly, "Are you crazy?" and it was apparently enough to warrant a phone call home to Mommy and a little chat with the director.  |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
| I recently asked a student teasingly, "Are you crazy?" and it was apparently enough to warrant a phone call home to Mommy and a little chat with the director. |
This happened at my old hagwon. Another teacher asked a student this, a mother freaked out, the director freaked out, and we were all given the third degree about using this "awful" word.
No one used it seriously. We were supposed to have easy going joking relationships with the kids. "Teacher CRAZY." "No you are crazy. (Oops)" |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| In Korean, crazy has almost singularly come to mean 'insane' or 'psychotic' as in the Korean 'michin'. If anyone ever questions my use of crazy, I always explain to them that in English there is also a definition of crazy that means 'silly' as in 'oot gi nae'. If I say, "don't be crazy", it simply means, 'oot gi ji ma', as in don't be silly. They have always understood pretty well after this explanation and noone at any of my past schools have given me any heat about it after they learned that. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Strange. "Crazy" has always been used jokingly since I've been here. Hell I often say I'm crazy (and I'm not joking). But one thing i was told not to say before was "Shut up!" even if the little jerk screams crap right in my ear! |
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jajdude
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