Learning how to Swear

We've had a couple days of non-stop wind that knocked out the power in my village. After all that, I found that my laptop's power cord is no longer in working condition... So I'm really sorry, but until I get a way to fix that m posts will be A) Shorter, B) riddled with spelling errors, and C) not as focused. The silver lining, if we all want to see it, is that for whatever reasons the 16 month internet ban (against me) at my school has been lifted! And as I sit here, in a room-full of students playing Spider Solitaire instead of listening to the teacher, I'm inspired to tell you that they ARE interested in English on a very basic level:

Rap music is more popular than you can possibly imagine, so the words they learn are words they will never use in academics. At least once a day a kid will run up to me, use a few swear words to see what my reaction will be. I think this only works because I have been absolutely consistent with it, but I give them a quizzical, "huh? What did you say?" kind of look. They repeat the words, and I say "Beach?" And they nod, "Yes! Yes! BEECH!" Then they ask what it is. And I tell them, it's where people go to swim. Their faces go from euphoric to crestfallen s they realize that it's not a bad word. "No, no, no... Miss Jessica... Beeeetch!" And I give them a confused look and say, yes a beach is where you go swimming. This is infuriating for them, and a lot of fun for me. Other explanations range from "are you saying 'shift'? 'Ask'?" these all depend on their continual mispronunciation of swears. But they all know the F word. Like, there is no problem in pronunciation there, so with that one, I have just told them it isn't a word. They repeat it, and I say "I don't know what that is. Are you sure you aren't saying Fudge? Duck? What?" And they wind up walking away shaking their heads because they have either mis-learned a really bad word or I'm just such an idiot for not knowing the word that is repeated in every American rap song. I'm not sure which they think.