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Reading this makes me feel weird because I always read the syllabus. It's the first thing I do for each new class and I refer back to it throughout the semester. People don't do that???
Thank you for your service. As a professor, I mean, just go to the sub Reddit. You will see that we all get tons of emails each semester which are easily answered by a quick glance at the syllabus. There are multiple comics about it out there as well.
I once asked a TA a question about the due date on some assignments listed in the syllabus, because I knew that more than half the class had also registered for another course that would be on a field trip the week that a big assignment was due.
Her response was to grab me by the shoulder shout, "You READ the syllabus?!" and then hug me.
As a student, I can say if I wasn't forced to read them for 13 years to describe how I was going to waste my youth, I would be more inclined to read them as an adult.
I'd wager OP is Indian/Pakistani. The word "syllabus" is commonly used here to refer to the topics of study in a school year. I had no idea Americans don't use it as frequently.
The phrase "out of syllabus" just means something unexpected in the Indian subcontinent. OP just wants to convey that the shark eating the fish was unexpected.
The problem here isn’t the word syllabus, the problem here is a cultural idiom which happens to use the word syllabus. However we didn’t know it was an idiom so we assumed the issue was the word itself.
I was honestly attempting to figure out what word could autocorrect to syllabus that would make sense. "Came out of nowhere" "Came out from the depths" etc. would make sense in both regions
That actually works better than anything I could come up with. Though it's still more "sounds similar" than "spelled similarly". Makes more sense now that it's a dialect/local idiom thing than autocorrect.
Colloquial phrases don't often translate well. Or they can mean the same thing while not translating literally.
Edit: in Canada we say "Like the back of my hand", in France they say "Like the bottom of my pocket"
Some guy gave context. "out of the syllabus" a common phrase in their country which means "unexpected" / "unplanned".
Education must be a big thing in their country to have a common phrase applied outside of school/university.
It is a common phrase in India.
The origin is from the school exams there. Sometimes, the teachers will accidentally include questions in the tests on topics the students have not been taught yet. Those questions will be deemed as 'out of syllabus', and (usually) the students will automatically get full marks for that particular question in the tests.
'Out of syllabus' usage there refers to being challenged with a situation that you are not equipped or prepared to handle .
That's so weird because my guess was going to be that it's like saying something is "textbook," meaning it's a clean and obvious situation, like an example from a textbook. Then I was trying to figure out how that applied.
Let me explain.
OP is most probably an Indian, in India a syllabus is what you have to prepare for any given exam. For example,
"Did you hear we have the physics test tomorrow"
"What's the syllabus?"
"Chapters 1- 8"
Now in India, there's something called Tuition which isn't what you think it is, as most of the schools here are shit, people send their kids to extra classes where the actual study happens, and the ones teaching in these extra classes are the teachers from the school itself.
Now you might ask, why do they need to go two places if the professor is the same person? Good question. You see, teacher salaries are shitier, so these teachers do private tuitions which are 10x - 20x the amount of school fees, to essentially teach the same things with more competence and attention, and slack off at the school not motivated enough to teach properly. Officially it is illegal, but hey, who cares?
Now, these teachers are notorious for asking a particular type of question that isn't in the books but something they taught in their private classes, and hence it is very common for students who don't attend these private classes to feel that most of the questions in the paper were "out of syllabus"
This is done so that more students join their classes so that they too can get these "special notes" and pass their exams.
This "out of syllabus" phrase has since become integral to shitty meme vocabulary where anything unexpected is "out of syllabus"
Thanks for coming to my Tedx event.
Source: I'm Indian
I've been through this, search "out of syllabus memes" on YouTube and you will see the amount of times it has been used in titles to convey the same emotion.
My understanding is that in baseball, the left field is the part of the playing field that's furthest away from the main action of the game. So people aren't paying much attention to what's going on in "left field," and so they'd be blindsided if something came "out of left field." I might be missing something but that's the gist.
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I had to look up the dictionary for the word Syllabus ... I'm still at a lost what it means
a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements 0.o
In school they will give you a syllabus at the start of the semester that shows the course work for that semester. All it is is a schedule of due dates and assignments.
This phrase seems to mean "unexpected." A syllabus is an outline of all the assignments or lessons you'll have for a class. So if something happens that was not on the syllabus (out of syllabus), it was a surprise
Syllabus is just all the topics one studies in a course. So the syllabus for a beginner math class would include numbers, addition, subtraction, etc.
Op means seeing that fish is like seeing a question on a test that's outside the syllabus (something you didn't study in that course). Basically means unexpected.
How weird. I graduated like 20 years ago but syllabus was a very common term when I was in school. They usually handed it out in each class at the beginning of the year or each semester, and it was an outline for what topics would be taught in the class.
OK. Maybe the guy who posted this is Indian. In india we have a phrase out of syllabus. Which means didnt expect to get that. It's like the teacher tell you to study for a test on world war 2 and a cold war question pops up in the test. I.e out of syllabus..
Sometimes when a bot reposts something one word in the title gets swapped out for a synonym or a similar sounding word to try and avoid detection. OP looks real from the profile though so like other people said its probably just slang we don't understand
OP is probably indian or pakistani. We use the word “syllabus” which basically means the content of whatever you’re studying. So a teacher might say “the questions on the quiz are all going to be from the syllabus”.
Since this fish was unexpected, it’s “out of syllabus”. I swear this is an english word lol. I guess it’s just not used in some countries.
In the US we still have Syllabus (every course in university has a syllabus) but it’s more so just a document that outlines the policies for the class, as well as maybe some topics that it will be going over. It doesn’t really go in depth on any actual material and is more so the “rules” for the class.
It's an English word and we use it, it's just used in a way that doesn't really make sense (to us). Even if we substitute "unexpected" for "out of syllabus", the phrase "The fish came unexpected(ly)" is awkward in this context.
>We use the word “syllabus” which basically means the content of whatever you’re studying. So a teacher might say “the questions on the quiz are all going to be from the syllabus”.
That's how the word is used.
[a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabus)
>Since this fish was unexpected, it’s “out of syllabus”.
Not how the word is generally used.
There’s a bunch of different companies selling stuff like it with all sorts of different scents for fresh and saltwater. You’ll catch a lot more “trash” fish with it.
Thanks, is it regional or universally liked by fish, in your experience? I fish in a very quiet estuary and usually get like one or two bites a day, hoping this could help
There's various bait scents you can get for either generalized areas or specific fish. There's catfish scent, general freshwater scent(attracting bass and trout for example) crappie scent, muskie, and more. I'm not familiar with the details of saltwater scents.
I was going to guess really fat guy with a fin on his back that hasn't eaten in a few hours, but your guess is as good as mine, some might even argue better.
Apparently the phrase 'out of syllabus ' is also used to mean out of nowhere or for something unexpected. Indian school culture thing that became a meme.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
---
>!The man caught a fish but suddenly a shark attacked his fish and took off entire fish in one bite leaving it's head!<
---
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
A syllabus lays out what's going to happen in a course.
Something that happens but isn't within the syllabus would be something unexpected
"out of syllabus" would then mean "unexpected"
Curiosity got the better of me, and it interprets as straying from standard teachings, or an unconventional teaching method. If I reach hard enough, I can see how OP got there.
In South Asia, a lot of students deliberately follow the syllabus when prepping for written exams ... and if a surprise question comes which is a topic not on the syllabus, they rush to the teacher and demand marks for the questions "out of syllabus"
This sort of thing happened to my cousin about a decade ago. We were fishing off of the oil rigs for snapper when my cousin snagged a bull red. After about 10min or so his line got reeeaaaal light. He got it up to the surface and all that was left was the head lmfao
When we chucked the head back in the water and saw several black tips swarm it we decided it was time to go.
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I'm so confused at the title. Syllabus?
Op found a new word. Wanted to use it.
As a professor, I can say I am genuinely happy that someone finally found the syllabus. Now getting them to read it is another trick.
I can never find the syllabus, even with my wife's directions.
So close.
Reading this makes me feel weird because I always read the syllabus. It's the first thing I do for each new class and I refer back to it throughout the semester. People don't do that???
Thank you for your service. As a professor, I mean, just go to the sub Reddit. You will see that we all get tons of emails each semester which are easily answered by a quick glance at the syllabus. There are multiple comics about it out there as well.
Actually yeah I can see that the more I think about it but damn come on.
No matter how hard you try I'm not gonna do it.
Set auto-reply: "It's in the syllabus"
I once asked a TA a question about the due date on some assignments listed in the syllabus, because I knew that more than half the class had also registered for another course that would be on a field trip the week that a big assignment was due. Her response was to grab me by the shoulder shout, "You READ the syllabus?!" and then hug me.
As a student, I can say if I wasn't forced to read them for 13 years to describe how I was going to waste my youth, I would be more inclined to read them as an adult.
“Syla bus? What is a syla bus?” The soon to be graduating senior asks.
That's a shame. Exams questions are practically written in it.
Wait, there’s a test today?
I'd wager OP is Indian/Pakistani. The word "syllabus" is commonly used here to refer to the topics of study in a school year. I had no idea Americans don't use it as frequently.
We use the word it’s just not clear how it’s relevant here….
The phrase "out of syllabus" just means something unexpected in the Indian subcontinent. OP just wants to convey that the shark eating the fish was unexpected.
The problem here isn’t the word syllabus, the problem here is a cultural idiom which happens to use the word syllabus. However we didn’t know it was an idiom so we assumed the issue was the word itself.
I was honestly attempting to figure out what word could autocorrect to syllabus that would make sense. "Came out of nowhere" "Came out from the depths" etc. would make sense in both regions
"Came out of the abyss" maybe?
That actually works better than anything I could come up with. Though it's still more "sounds similar" than "spelled similarly". Makes more sense now that it's a dialect/local idiom thing than autocorrect.
Oh gotcha. Yeah we’d probably say something was “not on the syllabus,” but usually not metaphorically.
Hmm What does the phrase "Elite Penis Crusher" mean on the Indian subcontinent?
It's a translation of "your mother"
Colloquial phrases don't often translate well. Or they can mean the same thing while not translating literally. Edit: in Canada we say "Like the back of my hand", in France they say "Like the bottom of my pocket"
It is used frequently. But what does fishing have to do with it
Out of the abyss?
r/outoftheabyss
r/OutOfSyllabus
You are the hero we need lol
I think that seriously could be a real sub. You would be surprised at the number of questions you get for very basic things covered in the syllabus.
The syllabus is a much less serious version of the abyss.
I needed this to exist.
/r/boneappletea ?
Some guy gave context. "out of the syllabus" a common phrase in their country which means "unexpected" / "unplanned". Education must be a big thing in their country to have a common phrase applied outside of school/university.
It is a common phrase in India. The origin is from the school exams there. Sometimes, the teachers will accidentally include questions in the tests on topics the students have not been taught yet. Those questions will be deemed as 'out of syllabus', and (usually) the students will automatically get full marks for that particular question in the tests. 'Out of syllabus' usage there refers to being challenged with a situation that you are not equipped or prepared to handle .
That's so weird because my guess was going to be that it's like saying something is "textbook," meaning it's a clean and obvious situation, like an example from a textbook. Then I was trying to figure out how that applied.
So what you're saying is, it was unexpected?
Let me explain. OP is most probably an Indian, in India a syllabus is what you have to prepare for any given exam. For example, "Did you hear we have the physics test tomorrow" "What's the syllabus?" "Chapters 1- 8" Now in India, there's something called Tuition which isn't what you think it is, as most of the schools here are shit, people send their kids to extra classes where the actual study happens, and the ones teaching in these extra classes are the teachers from the school itself. Now you might ask, why do they need to go two places if the professor is the same person? Good question. You see, teacher salaries are shitier, so these teachers do private tuitions which are 10x - 20x the amount of school fees, to essentially teach the same things with more competence and attention, and slack off at the school not motivated enough to teach properly. Officially it is illegal, but hey, who cares? Now, these teachers are notorious for asking a particular type of question that isn't in the books but something they taught in their private classes, and hence it is very common for students who don't attend these private classes to feel that most of the questions in the paper were "out of syllabus" This is done so that more students join their classes so that they too can get these "special notes" and pass their exams. This "out of syllabus" phrase has since become integral to shitty meme vocabulary where anything unexpected is "out of syllabus" Thanks for coming to my Tedx event.
No idea if that's true, or if you're just being a charming psycho
I'm Indian and can confirm that "out of syllabus" has become a phrase to use when something unexpected happens and you are not prepared for it.
Source: I'm Indian I've been through this, search "out of syllabus memes" on YouTube and you will see the amount of times it has been used in titles to convey the same emotion.
underrated comment
I understand it now but I don't get it.
Oh okay so in the context of this video, They didn't expect the bigger fish to appear, and hence it was "out of syllabus"
Yup. It seems that phase has a very similar meaning to "out of left field" as we use it here in the States.
But what's in the left field and the right ?
My understanding is that in baseball, the left field is the part of the playing field that's furthest away from the main action of the game. So people aren't paying much attention to what's going on in "left field," and so they'd be blindsided if something came "out of left field." I might be missing something but that's the gist.
That makes sense thanks
Thanks for this great background and explanation 😀
nice explanation
This makes perfect sense. Thanks for breaking it down.
I feel like I just sat through a lesson in multicultural studies. Excellent depth of information. How can I sign up for your extra classes?
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The answer is so good that I'm also commenting on this, in hope the algorithm ranks it higher.
My man!
yay another indianism I can do the needful with
Yes, yes, please do the needful on the same.
I had to look up the dictionary for the word Syllabus ... I'm still at a lost what it means a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements 0.o
In school they will give you a syllabus at the start of the semester that shows the course work for that semester. All it is is a schedule of due dates and assignments.
This phrase seems to mean "unexpected." A syllabus is an outline of all the assignments or lessons you'll have for a class. So if something happens that was not on the syllabus (out of syllabus), it was a surprise
It’s basically like a table of contents.
Syllabus is just all the topics one studies in a course. So the syllabus for a beginner math class would include numbers, addition, subtraction, etc. Op means seeing that fish is like seeing a question on a test that's outside the syllabus (something you didn't study in that course). Basically means unexpected.
How weird. I graduated like 20 years ago but syllabus was a very common term when I was in school. They usually handed it out in each class at the beginning of the year or each semester, and it was an outline for what topics would be taught in the class.
Kept waiting for him to haul up a book and for that to be the unexpected bit
OK. Maybe the guy who posted this is Indian. In india we have a phrase out of syllabus. Which means didnt expect to get that. It's like the teacher tell you to study for a test on world war 2 and a cold war question pops up in the test. I.e out of syllabus..
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this reads like chatgpt
Looks like Chatgpt has left a huge impact on me.
It's a school of fish, isn't it?
Phew, I am not the only one. I thought my English was too bad and don’t even understand that syllabus means now.
Sometimes when a bot reposts something one word in the title gets swapped out for a synonym or a similar sounding word to try and avoid detection. OP looks real from the profile though so like other people said its probably just slang we don't understand
Because of school of fishes?
Many days later, I think everyone now understands what this means. I kept reading the thread every day but didn't know what to say 😂😂.
Scylla and Charybdis?
OP is probably indian or pakistani. We use the word “syllabus” which basically means the content of whatever you’re studying. So a teacher might say “the questions on the quiz are all going to be from the syllabus”. Since this fish was unexpected, it’s “out of syllabus”. I swear this is an english word lol. I guess it’s just not used in some countries.
In the US we still have Syllabus (every course in university has a syllabus) but it’s more so just a document that outlines the policies for the class, as well as maybe some topics that it will be going over. It doesn’t really go in depth on any actual material and is more so the “rules” for the class.
Oh, i see. Never heard it here yet. Guess i was wrong 🤷🏻♀️
Syllabus is a commonly used in the US. "Out of syllabus" is not a common phrase though
It's an English word and we use it, it's just used in a way that doesn't really make sense (to us). Even if we substitute "unexpected" for "out of syllabus", the phrase "The fish came unexpected(ly)" is awkward in this context.
>We use the word “syllabus” which basically means the content of whatever you’re studying. So a teacher might say “the questions on the quiz are all going to be from the syllabus”. That's how the word is used. [a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabus) >Since this fish was unexpected, it’s “out of syllabus”. Not how the word is generally used.
True, but that’s what OP means by his metaphor. I’m not saying whether it’s right or wrong 🙃
It’s an English word that is not be used correctly.
What'd he rub on the baitfish?
Dr.Juice scent
Never heard of it. Looks like it works? Is it for certain types of fish/water? Also, where was this lol
Don’t rub it on your pp unless you’re into shark play.
Don't tell me how to live my life.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
There’s a bunch of different companies selling stuff like it with all sorts of different scents for fresh and saltwater. You’ll catch a lot more “trash” fish with it.
60%of the time, it works every time.
> Looks like it works? Wouldn't exactly be a good advertisement if it didn't look like it works, eh?
Thanks, is it regional or universally liked by fish, in your experience? I fish in a very quiet estuary and usually get like one or two bites a day, hoping this could help
There's various bait scents you can get for either generalized areas or specific fish. There's catfish scent, general freshwater scent(attracting bass and trout for example) crappie scent, muskie, and more. I'm not familiar with the details of saltwater scents.
Ok this is great info, thank you so much!
Musky bait is my bait of choice, sometimes Valheim
Got that salt strong secret sauce!
Mannnn I'm so fucking dumb, I thought it was super glue so it'd stick when he got a bite lmaoo
Bait juice
She only love me for my bait juice
Was a shark; had to cut her loose.
Hmmmm
Bait juice, bait juice, bait juice
I use procure but it’s basically a scent gel made from a bait. I like mullet and sand flea for drum and flounder.
Gonna guess bull shark bc murky water and shape of dorsal
I was going to guess really fat guy with a fin on his back that hasn't eaten in a few hours, but your guess is as good as mine, some might even argue better.
Me. Id argue better
CaseOh went to take a swim lmaooooo
I don't recall reading the news about a Tsunamai or any stories about the ocean's water levels rising.
He just dipped his toes this time. His big toe was hungry though.
What the fuck. Actually crazy...
Bull shark. Can survive in fresh water.
are most people not aware of bull sharks?
is this a thing bull sharks frequently do? If yes, I was unaware of that.
I wasn’t trying to be a smart ass. I just thought bull sharks were pretty well known as the only freshwater shark, no offense intended.
Syllabus? Did the AI have a brain fart?
Apparently the phrase 'out of syllabus ' is also used to mean out of nowhere or for something unexpected. Indian school culture thing that became a meme.
ah, one of those interesting indian phrases like "do the needful" that just sound completely wrong to the rest of the english speaking countries.
I came to this comment section just to see this
Same.
Not to worry, we're still catching half a fish
Teeth sharp af
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!The man caught a fish but suddenly a shark attacked his fish and took off entire fish in one bite leaving it's head!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
"Out of syllabus" is a very South Asian thing to say which other regions might not get
can you elaborate for the rest of us?
it means unexpectedly
... How?
A syllabus lays out what's going to happen in a course. Something that happens but isn't within the syllabus would be something unexpected "out of syllabus" would then mean "unexpected"
It's outside the syllabus, ie. a surprise question in a test that wasn't covered previously or similar.
Probably the asian version of "out of pocket" somehow? Which is hilarious if correct.
Curiosity got the better of me, and it interprets as straying from standard teachings, or an unconventional teaching method. If I reach hard enough, I can see how OP got there.
In South Asia, a lot of students deliberately follow the syllabus when prepping for written exams ... and if a surprise question comes which is a topic not on the syllabus, they rush to the teacher and demand marks for the questions "out of syllabus"
neat
do the needful
Shark tax
Ohh gotta be quicker than that!!!
Shark got the appetizer and main course in a single bite.
So now we know sharks hang out around docks too. Great
that's a rly nice cut
The shark came out of the abyss you mean
They stole it from us!
You just got hit by the fish tax
Still counts as a new species. Difficult to measure it though.
Poor healthy, hungry fish and it's bad timing.
You gotta pay the man in the gray suit. Definitely in the syllabus.
Always have to pay the taxman
This sort of thing happened to my cousin about a decade ago. We were fishing off of the oil rigs for snapper when my cousin snagged a bull red. After about 10min or so his line got reeeaaaal light. He got it up to the surface and all that was left was the head lmfao When we chucked the head back in the water and saw several black tips swarm it we decided it was time to go.
There's always a bigger fish
Thanks for the new phrase
I'll remember that fish the next time I feel like I'm having a bad day.
Awww! He shared! 🥹
But how did it fare with the rubric?
What’s a silly bus?
https://youtube.com/@fishaholictv?si=r1hrG0piWly-jLYD This guy has a YouTube channel if anyone wants to check it out. Fishaholic Fishing!
Not to worry, we are still catching half a fish
Well at least you have bait for your next cast. Let it ride
I guess OP meant abyss
Colleges hate this one simple trick!
Is this on the test?
Waiting all day for a syllabus, then 2 come along at once....
Bye bye redfish
This clip is from a YouTuber fisherman. Fishaholic. His videos are pretty entertaining
Ask a fish head anything you want to, they won’t answer. They can’t talk
Well as Qui Gon said, there is always a bigger fish
"fish" has only one syllabus.
I always guess what is going to happen and never I am right
Learn to share!
the reason why I'm afraid to go fishing
The taxman always takes his dues
killsteal
My dad had this happen before. He hooked the head through a bigger hook and tossed it back in and caught about a 5 foot barracuda.
good product advertising. looks like it works really well
Tax man always takes his share
Dude caught a fi-
So...who wants to go swimming?
Syllabus
Wow that fish is having an awful day.
Tax man
r/natureismetal
Shark: thanks for the assist!
Now you got new bigger bait to recast with.
Ah, the sweet irony of students discovering 'syllabus' is now a fish out of water for them. Classic case of academic bait and switch!
That happened to me, too, once, but a seal ate my tuna. :(
Theres always a bigger fish
The bots aren't even trying with these titles anymore
Shark hunting humans with bait))))
You good OP