So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.
I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.
Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.
This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.
One of my Latin students, whenever I’d ask if they wanted a couple extra minutes to review before a test, would always say, “No, we die like men.” And so finally I asked her why it was always ‘like men’. She said, “We die like men, unprepared and useless.”
Rouxls Kaard works on so many levels as an absolutely perfect representation of a rules card the more I think about it
– His puzzles are easy to understand because rules cards are made to be easily understood, though the text can be a bit hard-to-read at times
– They have no function in most actual games, and are thus “The most useless card in a deck”
– If they DO get mixed in to a deck, they basically just cause a momentary annoyance when you’re like “Oops, this is the rules card. I’ll just put that aside and draw again” and move on with the game after a few seconds
– They’re ultimately mildly helpful, despite being basically functionless
– Especially good for children who wouldn’t have learned the rules yet
– The thing on his chest isn’t a marching band-like vest with a line of buttons, it’s a list of rules
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