/lit/ - Literature

>learn the word "hence" as a child
>use it in casual conversation
>get made fun of every time for using fancy words and trying to be smarter than everyone else
>use it in a writing assignment
>teacher accuses me of plagiarization for use of a handful of words she says I shouldn't know, one of which was the word "hence"
>have to, as a nine or ten year old, purposefully dumb down my speech in order to communicate with not only my peers, but teachers
There's nothing worse than American public schools.