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olorielOh, for Someone's sake.
I know that there are wide variations on the spelling of the names of the characters of, say, Arthurian legend.
I am, however, fairly sure that "Morgen Leffy" is not one of the established forms of Morgan le Fay.
Seriously. It may be elitist, but is it too much to ask that people in a MAJORING seminar on Medieval English Literature please have at least a bit of background information? I mean, you don't even have to read any professional treatises to get that kind of knowledge. Something like The Mists of Avalon would have sufficed entirely! Why, people, why? And they truly, truly didn't know who she was. WTF?
Or what my neighbour wrote today: "literally revival". Now, aside from the fact that it doesn't make sense (and what the professor had said was "alliterative revival"), it's ungrammatical, too, so it should have been pretty obvious that it couldn't be what he said.I mean, you just can't link an adverb to a noun like that! How can someone be majoring in English Literature and Linguistics and write down nonsense like that without blinking - without noticing?
Don't get me started on people still incapable of pronouncing the "th" after years of learning English. It's not that hard. Pretty much everybody who has trouble with the "th" sound has no trouble with pretending to lisp. IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME SOUND.
ARGH. Give the dental fricative some love, people.
Oh. And Middle English has that lovely distinction between þu and ʒe. ʒe is never "du". It's either the polite singular or the general plural, both of which should be translated as "ihr" (or, at the very least, as "Sie" in the first case and as "ihr" in the second, though that's anachronistic.). YOU KNOW THAT. The profesor said it about 20 times. Your native language has that distinction to this very day. It's not necessary to still translate it wrong.
This was brought to you by me, who loves her classes if only it weren't for the damn students.
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In other news, tomorrow's the senate meeting in which they have to decide on tuition fees. Unlike planned, however, it won't be in the senate hall of the university but in some secret place so the ev0l students can't sabotage it again. The senators, apparently, are to be picked up at some secret street corners to be brought to the equally secret meeting place.
Therefore, tomorrow's student protests will likely begin with a real-life game of "Scotland Yard" - students all over the city watching out for the senators, trying to find out where the secret senate will be. Cell phones will be ringing all the time! The rector will have to ask that the local network will be taken down (as they did back when George Bush visited Germany)! Students will have to resort to signal fires! Drums! Secret whistling codes! Gazette runners! It'll all be wondrous and romantic and adventurous, and I won't be there. Alas.
I know that there are wide variations on the spelling of the names of the characters of, say, Arthurian legend.
I am, however, fairly sure that "Morgen Leffy" is not one of the established forms of Morgan le Fay.
Seriously. It may be elitist, but is it too much to ask that people in a MAJORING seminar on Medieval English Literature please have at least a bit of background information? I mean, you don't even have to read any professional treatises to get that kind of knowledge. Something like The Mists of Avalon would have sufficed entirely! Why, people, why? And they truly, truly didn't know who she was. WTF?
Or what my neighbour wrote today: "literally revival". Now, aside from the fact that it doesn't make sense (and what the professor had said was "alliterative revival"), it's ungrammatical, too, so it should have been pretty obvious that it couldn't be what he said.I mean, you just can't link an adverb to a noun like that! How can someone be majoring in English Literature and Linguistics and write down nonsense like that without blinking - without noticing?
Don't get me started on people still incapable of pronouncing the "th" after years of learning English. It's not that hard. Pretty much everybody who has trouble with the "th" sound has no trouble with pretending to lisp. IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME SOUND.
ARGH. Give the dental fricative some love, people.
Oh. And Middle English has that lovely distinction between þu and ʒe. ʒe is never "du". It's either the polite singular or the general plural, both of which should be translated as "ihr" (or, at the very least, as "Sie" in the first case and as "ihr" in the second, though that's anachronistic.). YOU KNOW THAT. The profesor said it about 20 times. Your native language has that distinction to this very day. It's not necessary to still translate it wrong.
This was brought to you by me, who loves her classes if only it weren't for the damn students.
- - -
In other news, tomorrow's the senate meeting in which they have to decide on tuition fees. Unlike planned, however, it won't be in the senate hall of the university but in some secret place so the ev0l students can't sabotage it again. The senators, apparently, are to be picked up at some secret street corners to be brought to the equally secret meeting place.
Therefore, tomorrow's student protests will likely begin with a real-life game of "Scotland Yard" - students all over the city watching out for the senators, trying to find out where the secret senate will be. Cell phones will be ringing all the time! The rector will have to ask that the local network will be taken down (as they did back when George Bush visited Germany)! Students will have to resort to signal fires! Drums! Secret whistling codes! Gazette runners! It'll all be wondrous and romantic and adventurous, and I won't be there. Alas.
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Date: 2006-05-23 09:05 pm (UTC)Hmm, da fällt mir auf, dass ich gar nicht mehr mitgekriegt hab', wie das hier in Bonn mit den Studiengebühren ausgegangen ist ... Ich glaube, sie sind noch nicht durch. Hmm ...