CLASSROOM DICTATOR: The Politics of Classroom Power

	Achtung!
	Let me lay down zie Rules
	& set zings straight:
	zis klass is für learning -
	not childish gamez!

	Only if ya're villing ta exert yarselves
	& stüdy unflinchingly
	vill you receive koarse kredit
	err achieve proficiency.

	Zerefore
	strive zu Emulate Linguistically Pure Samples
	& zet hesitatiön aside.
	Follow Instructions Precisely:
	I Am Yar Only Guide.

	Zough I may seem strikt
	zis is fer yar own güdde:
	only by hard work und vigilance
	kann ya achieve a state
	in vhich mastering zie foreign language
	kun start to . . . have said to . . .
	have been to . . . have had tried to . . .
	half seen to . . . ünderstood?


Melissa: Some schools are boot-camps. Others are experiments in anarchy.

Liao:    Insipientes homines. Se l'uomo stolto? Adakah soalan bodoh?

Melissa: What are you doing?

Liao:    Hmm? (smiling) Ah, simply experimenting in anarchy. . .


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some verbal and visual reflections on how text is codified and parsed
KEYWORDS: linguistic coding, computational meaning, semantic clipping, social discourse

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1996 Shizuoka , Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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