"Never attribute to malice what can be more easily explained by stupidity" is a favorite aphorism of mine. In the context of this unusual and entertaining conspiracy theory as outlined in this video, I would modify the aphorism to read: "Never attribute to malice what can be more easily explained by bad writing." Not that the bad writing in Star Wars makes it a bad movie – oh dear, no! Sometimes, bad writing is what's needed.
Day: March 18, 2013
Caveat: Oh, Monkey! 오래만요!
My BISP1-M class had been making me upset. Every time I keep points in the class, or we play a game, they nearly come to blows arguing about rules and turns and points. I don’t have this problem with other classes, but because of this, I had told the class that I was no longer “keeping points” (i.e. in-class, game-based points) and no longer paying “dollars” (my private currency I give to students so they can shop at my “store”). Further, my minneapolitan rainbow monkey (used in the popular sport of “monkey darts“) was banned from class.
This made the class quite sad, but we’ve been limping along since then.
Today, not intending to, I brought the minneapolitan rainbow monkey to class. He was sitting on the podium at the front of class, and, upon seeing it, a fifth-grade girl who likes to go by the name Laracle (which is Korean pig-latin-analog for Clara: 클라라 -> 라라클) jumped up and grabbed the small toy monkey and danced down the middle of the classroom, like in a reunion in a romantic movie.
“Oh, Monkey!” she exclaimed in a sing-songy voice. “오래만요!” [long time no see].
It was cute.
During the vocabulary quiz in the same class, another boy somehow managed to forget the Korean word for “wing” (날개) – either that or he was making a pointless (and point-losing) joke. He drew a picture of a wing, showing he understood the meaning, and perhaps for another class I’d have given credit for his answer – but I wasn’t feeling charitable. See the picture of his test paper at right.
