{"id":278473,"date":"2018-11-08T00:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/08\/so-one-of-our-new-vocabulary-words-is-malus\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:27:13","slug":"so-one-of-our-new-vocabulary-words-is-malus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/08\/so-one-of-our-new-vocabulary-words-is-malus\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

mygenitiveisobjective<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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quomododragon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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quomododragon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So one of our new vocabulary words is \u201cmalus\u201d, meaning \u201cbad\u201d, 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 \u201cbad\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.<\/p>\n

Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say \u201cmale\u201d with the most dead-eyed expression.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered \u201cvir\u201d meant \u201cman\u201d because \u201cit looks like virus, and men are a virus\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of my Latin students, whenever I\u2019d ask if they wanted a couple extra minutes to review before a test, would always say, \u201cNo, we die like men.\u201d And so finally I asked her why it was always \u2018like men\u2019. She said, \u201cWe die like men, unprepared and useless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

mygenitiveisobjective: quomododragon: quomododragon: So one of our new vocabulary words is \u201cmalus\u201d, meaning \u201cbad\u201d, 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 \u201cbad\u201d. I\u2019m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware … <\/p>\n

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