Friday, October 21, 2011

Tormentum Secundum

We'll start with the eighth-grade "Tormentum Secundum", a quiz taken by a student who identifies himself as last-name Neff (truthful), first-name Marlofuisti (apparently a botched Latinization of his classmate Marlow's name).

When asked to translate the sentence in the second question, he gets the first two words right, then leaves he rest blank; perhaps not the most reprehensible of errors, but the teacher saw fit to present the grading rather harshly...by stringing together eight bubbles indicating the eight words that are missing.

On the second page, Marlofuisti didn't have much luck working out the declension of the noun risus, Latin for "laughter". Rather than run a random scatter pattern, he instead just guessed "Rei" for virtually every answer he didn't know. Well, he did get one right...

Somehow the efforts still merited a 13/20, technically a passing grade.


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