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Day 8 of not mumbling "ya little shit" under my breath at my students (Original Post) Bucky May 2014 OP
I remember thinking I would have an episode of Tourette Syndrome... NYC_SKP May 2014 #1
When I was a substitute teacher years ago Blue_Tires May 2014 #2
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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. I remember thinking I would have an episode of Tourette Syndrome...
Mon May 5, 2014, 04:52 PM
May 2014

like all of a sudden, "bastard!"....

but usually toward an administrator or other adult.

students are just, well, little shits!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
2. When I was a substitute teacher years ago
Mon May 5, 2014, 05:31 PM
May 2014

I decided to adopt a few British slang insults...It was wonderful -- Students didn't know what I was really saying, and I didn't have to mutter them under my breath...The one time out of a hundred that a student would ask me about a certain word, I had a G-rated explanation...

http://www.anglotopia.net/anglophilia/british-english-the-top-50-most-beautiful-british-insults/
http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2013/02/28/10-british-insults-americans-wont-understand/
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/863991-british-insults-slang.html

Because of movies, video games, BBC America, etc., a lot more British slang is familiar to young Americans these days, so I don't know how much you could get away with today...So maybe you could try a different language (I'd post a link to the good ol' swearasaurus.com, but I guess that site no longer exists)

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