Savage
There’s the regular meaning of the word, “savage”. And then there’s the other meaning of the word: “When something or someone is "savage," it is "viciously cool.” When a kid in class asked my 11 yo daughter’s English teacher to move a bit (so he could copy what she’d written on the blackboard), she snapped back, “If I move away from the board, who will write the words you are copying?”. Methinks she did have a valid point. Another time, in the same teacher’s class, some kid announced (without rhyme or reason) that he was a nerd. The girl next to him asked, “What is a nerd?”. Upon which, this genius said he didn’t know either! The teacher decided to educate the class on the meaning of the word. “A nerd”, she said, “is a kid who thinks they know everything, takes out their book, and then keeps staring at the teacher instead of looking at the book”. Continuing in the spirit of things, a girl then proved she wasn’t a nerd by declaring that she couldn’t f...