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Memories ... The way they scolded us ..

This one is to continue my previous post

Out of the days spent in the school the most common thing that we remember is the way our teachers used to scold us.

To share a few

We used to have an English Teacher who did his best in English Literature. (He even used to teach us social studies.)

I still remember the way he scolded us, most of the times we never used to understand that he is scolding us (thanks to globalization, we are better with our language nowJ)

So whenever he scolds us we used to note the words come back home refer to the dictionary fetch their meaning, followed by bursting with laughter and exhibiting our talent locally in gullies.

Here’s a list of some such words

Hooligans, Vagabonds, Nomads (I swear I dint know the meaning of these words until my teacher was scolding some of my class mates).

Rotten-Eggs, Forbidden Stuff, Culture less brutes.

In addition to the words he often used to use phrases, the most common one was

“Your Freedom ends where my nose begins”, he knows our standard thus he narrates us a story behind this phrase, even then we never used to understand it: D

We used to think that it’s something funny and start giggling; once he catches you laughing you are gone!!!

The one who is caught will be his subject and there used to be a war of words, the subject won’t even get a chance to defend himself (how can he? He is good at our local English which doesn’t meet his opponent’s standard ;))

The Teacher used to start in this way “Why are you exhibiting your dirty un-cleaned teeth?” and go on …

The only words which would come out of his opponents were

“No Saar”,

“Yes Saar”,

“Sorry Saar”

Last but not the least “Thank you Saar”( this one when he is asked the subject to go and sit J)

Coming to others

Some teachers used to scold us in the local language,

Our biology sir used to say “Champal Tamaatal aithai biddaa!!!” (This means I will hit you in such a way that your cheeks will become red like tomatoes)

The worst case was when we were in our 7th standard, our Mathematics Teacher she used to scold us directly in a language which we understand (gully language ;) say mother tongue), I guess I need not elaborate this part J

Another Telugu teacher used to compare us with the previous class children that she taught and she never used to find us better, the only reason which she used to scold us was breaking the pin-drop silence with the sound of clicking the ball point pen.

(WARNING: never use a JETTER* pens in her class, they will be thrown out of window J)

(Jetter: Most Common and prized possession of any student who started writing with pens a product of REYNOLDS company)

Can’t forget our Hindi teacher, her famous dialog was “Gadhey”

“Sab Lallaguda* aur mettu guda* k gadhey ek hi jagah baithey hai” (All the Donkeys from Lallaguda and mettuguda are sitting at one place,It’s a different issue that even she used to come from the same place: P)

To be Continued … J