I have always thought that being able to read, let alone write, Cyrillic cursive is a form of magic. I’ve known a lot of grown Russian men who absolutely could not do either.

You: you're inside it already my dude

Bob: o rly?

You: ya rly

Bob: thanks bro

I don't think bad marks were justified. This is how I see every interaction go with polyglot colleagues, its like a modem handshake and they settle into the most comfortable common language

In American English it would go

"Do you speak English"

"Nein"

"O K. I. Will. Talk. Slow. So. You. Can. Under. stand. Me."

Fun fact, Adam Savage got that quote from an old coworker who lifted it from 1984’s “The Dungeonmaster” which is ‘so bad it’s good’.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don't much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn't know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.

I think MGS: 3 does this best. The entire game takes place in Russia and most of the dialogue outside of with command is with Russians so they just say that the characters are speaking Russian to each other. Pretty sure the scientist you meet at the beginning of the game even comments on Snakes Russian being good.

The English dub of the anime Monster has a really funny interaction between the main character (Japanese), a young child (German), and an older couple (English).

Despite the voice actors all speaking English, the main character and child communicate in German. The main character also knows English so he can communicate with the English couple. There are scenes in which they are all together and the Japanese guy has to translate what they are saying to each other, but to the viewer they are all speaking English. The kid and old couple just won't directly talk to each other.

Do you find it weird that Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and King Lear are all written in English? We've been doing this for centuries.

Having a snippet of native language is a more modern invention as far as I know (because if you can't rely on the audience understanding the language, you need to subtitle the snippet), but it's just a way of communicating to the audience in what language the conversation is taking place by showing, rather than telling.

One time back in AP physics on a test I was prompted with "Find the accelerating force on the electron". I could not think of the way to do that in the moment, so I literally wrote No, and wrote down a fake answer so I could use that number for the next part of the problem. I got back the test a few days later and the teacher wrote a smiley face down there. Apparently I made her laugh so long and so hard her family had to check in on her so she just gave me the points.

I can laugh and not give them the points at the same time.

when it's every now and then it's great! but some students try to get out of learning by being funny, and it's your job to actually teach them something

Plus, if that kid can write in Cyrillic cursive, good for them!

I’m in my master’s program for elementary education. If I saw this, I would just pull them to the side and ask them to translate it to me as English. If it comes out sounding plausible, I’d give them full points because they knew how to say it. They could obviously already read it since they knew how to answer the question. So the writing could come later if that was an issue. I could even try and decode it with a translator first before asking for their translation just to see if they were bullshitting me.

If it was a joke, I’d let it slide but let them know that in the future I need them to write it fully in English.

It's being a dick to express confusion about why a student is mocking your lessons for them? But the student doing it is just a hilarious and harmless joker, of course. Pretty weird take tbh

If it's homework, the teacher has to grade multiple classes with 30-something students in them, so they probably ran on autopilot at that point.

...equally likely, they had a laugh but this is not an acceptable way to answer it. Most likely done by the dumbass "funny" kid in class who already tired them out.