Culled from a year's crop of students (some conversations, some from exams):

"Professor, it says that you want definitions here. Could you explain what you mean by that?"

"I always thought that it was called Antartica because there were ants there, but I am wrong, right?"

"Climate change is a problem for countries with serious climate."

"The Human Genie Project is definitely numb." (I don't know what it means either)

"Professor, do you think that wild animals on television wear makeup?"

yours, Peter T.