After freshman year of high school, I used my summer freedom to take a programming class. "I don't expect you guys to learn this language in two weeks," our teacher made it clear from the outset, "any more than I'd expect you to learn Korean in two weeks."

"Korean?" I said to myself, bemused by such a bizarre example.

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