Fundoo Fundas

I was kids once..everybody was, no big deal, huh. When I was in standard 1 I had two fundas..both related to academics. One in Hindi and other in English. First the English funda.

Ques). Why did Shyam climb the tree? ( a sample question)

Answer). Shyam climbed the tree 'coz....

The funda(self derived) was whenevr I saw 'did' in the question, as I had observed, the answer had the verb in the past tense. This was the part I enjoyed a lot, the way things(language) worked. I remember whenevr a question with the 'did + verb' format appeared I enjoyed recalling the past tense of the verb and writng the answer, I was intelligent then.

Same class another story. My father used to pick me up during the exams and on the way back he always used to ask me how did I perform. Once there was this English dictation test, I even remember the score I got, 21/25 . Daddy asked me what all words were given to us and also what spelling I had written. There was this word, 'beautiful' I told him that I wrote some spelling of it and I'm sure I wrote it correctly but he knew I wrote the wrong spelling, just by the way I tried to answer the spelling. I could not fudge that time and I cannot fudge even now.

The Hindi funda. I was really troubled with the questions that contained the word nahi ,for example a question.

Ques). kya shyam ne XXX kaam nahi kiya?

Now I used to get baffled at question like this and always scored zero, no matter whatever way I wrote answers.I'm still confused about 'what was the confusion'?

ohh!! got the point..Confusion cleared. Actually the question was to be answered in one word. So the answer could be either haan/nahi. I used to write the factual answer, I mean, not what the question demanded but what the fact(s) implied, clear?? No, worry not it took me 17 years to realise this. Later I was told by my classmate, Mayuri, a true rote genius (that time) and Rank 1, about tackling question of this sort, I don't know if the advice was of any help.

These were the two fundas, one destructive other constructive. English funda was logically confirmed by Gurleen Ma'am in one of the English classes in standard 11th.

P.S. : I'm actively waiting for the retaliation( or the revenge). Louie is seriously hurt, I want to see the revenge in action.

Another cool funda, "fucking not mess with me" :)