✏ = teaching them a different language.

“Come on, it’s only Russian, not rocket science.” Although, granted, when compared to other languages, it had might as well been rocket science. “Say it with me, Зд- no no, it’s pronounced zdra, you’re doing that weird shdra thing again.”

The next time he was asked to teach somebody a different language, he was going to kick a baby. “это ерунда.”