Watching the teacher squirm

[e.Blackstar]

Some of my friends and I write notes to each other in the Tengwar and the Angerthas. Once, I threw the note, but the teacher turned while it was airborne. She picked it up and said, "Lets read this aloud, shall we?" Then she opened it. The look on her face told me she was having a huge mental flip. My friend and I just burst out laughing. We got in trouble, but it was worth it to see the look on her face. Hehehehehehe!:D ;)

[BelDain]

That is awesome.
Start turning in your homework in Tengwar. :D

[e.Blackstar]

I'll try it on some few-point assignment, maybe in English. ("But it's Literature, and a foriegn language...")

[sepdet]

I used to pull that trick twenty years ago with my best friend, but we were using Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Who says education isn't useful? ;)

[Lantarion]

haha! Suits her right! :D
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago: after every test I write a single line of Tengwar, that might be in English or in Finnish, saying something like "Well this went fairly well" or "Oh dear, I'm done for", depending on the situation. Anyway, our old geography teacher (who we had for about two weeks before she couldn't handle our class anymore :D) took points away from me for "doodling" on my test paper! Of course I attempted to explain to her what it meant, but she was a bit livid for some reason (all that medication perhaps?;)), so I let it go. :rolleyes:
I still got a 9 (something like A-) from the course though!

[BelDain]

That's just not right. A teacher shouldn't mark you down just because they are ignorant.

[Lúthien Séregon]

I have a bit of a problem with writing on test papers in a different language as well...eventually, in a Parent-Teacher interview I was asked to take in a separate notepad to draw or write on so that I wouldn't get marked down. :p

[Zale]

In my experience teachers get incredibly annoyed when you know something that they don't.
I can't write notes using the Tengwar - the only person in school who might possibly have understood moved to Australia last year.

[Saucy]

i tried to teach my friends elfish..but they are slow learners:(

[Zale]

None of my friends would be interested; they have no imagination... I'm forced to express mine here, and by writing.

[e.Blackstar]

Originally posted by Lantarion
haha! Suits her right! :D
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago: after every test I write a single line of Tengwar, that might be in English or in Finnish, saying something like "Well this went fairly well" or "Oh dear, I'm done for", depending on the situation.


I'll have to try that!

[Lantarion]

I've decided to use my own script, or one that I invented myself, for that purpose now.. But only for a while, and I'll use the Tengwar too. ;)

[e.Blackstar]

I did that on a math quiz today. On the easy side I wrote, 'that was plain easy' and on the harder side I wrote 'that went fairly well' I'll have to wait and see what Mr. Maur and mr. Graves do.

[Ledreanne313]

I use Anglo-Saxon runes on everything. I put things like that one tests too! If I hate someone or soemthing, I'll write it on their papers. I can read and write in it like english. I freak people out by writing it everyone. I even have a 'diary' that I only write in it in, hey, no one will be able to read it! But it's annoying we people ask you all the time 'What is that?'

Anne

[Devushka]

I don't do anything like that on tests and papers, but i do in my assignment notebook. and this one girl, who is in a few of my classes, her handwriting is really really weird, and even if she is writing in english, it looks like dwarvish runes. dead serious. no curve at all, really thin and straight, lots of stick-lines...

[BlackCaptain]

Dude! I just get up sometimes in classes where they let us do anything and start writing Tengwar on the board. I also write little ink tattoos on people (in pen) on thier arms in Tengwar. They all love it! Haha

[Evenstar373]

HA!!! thats funny when I learn Elvish I will wright my notes in it ( no one hardly that I know likes LOTR they think its stupid:mad: )
so no one can cheat!!!!!!

[ely]

I also made up a language of my own - actually letters only, words and everything else is the same. Me and my two best friends are able too read it. So I can always use it if I want to keep something a secret from other people ;)

[klugiglugus]

The Futharc is good to use when you wish to write encrypted stuff.

[Lantarion]

Haha, yes indeed.. If somebody besides yourself knows how to read it.. :rolleyes:
By the way, do you prefer to use the term futhark, futhork or futhorc? I've heard these three, and I'm not sure what the actual Anglo-Saxon order of letters was.. I know that the Vikings used the order futhark, or I think I do.. :p