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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-18 11:01 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-18 11:01 pm
I don't think I've done teacher quotes since I stopped taking Latin. XD
Feeling a bit better. I think I just have to sleep more and remember to eat.
Also, today may be the first time in history I've ever been told by a teacher, "You keep going back to literature! Let's talk some more about the internet, instead."
So I got to clarify that literature, fandom, and internet are not exactly separate subjects for me. *g* And she made me explain the concept of crackfic and come up with a few LM-based prompts. Over the course of the afternoon she also informed me that French has no words for 'nerd' or 'spoiler,' and that while there probably won't be any Deathly Hallows midnight parties at the bookstores, plenty of places will be selling it in English. (And then we spent the last half of the lesson on Rimbaud, during which I discovered that there are more types of sonnets in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my paltry English education.) Other charming excerpts:
"So who do you have for morning classes?"
"Nathalie."
"Ah, I'm sorry. Does she make fun of you?"
"Yeah, but she makes fun of everyone equally, so it doesn't bother me."
"Yes, well, Nathalie is very French that way."
"In fact, the biography doesn't mention it, but he was Verlaine's lover--"
"I knew that, actually."
"You told me when we started that you knew nothing about Rimbaud!"
"And if you don't do your homework, next lesson I'll make you carry on a conversation consisting of nothing but idiomatic phrases."
"Other languages you've studied? Types of literature you like?"
"Um... French and German, obviously... Russian, Arabic, Latin, Italian... Gothic... Anglo-Saxon..."
"Oh, have you read Ann Radcliffe?"
"...no, why?"
"It's always called a comédie musicale. Even if everyone dies!"
Also, today may be the first time in history I've ever been told by a teacher, "You keep going back to literature! Let's talk some more about the internet, instead."
So I got to clarify that literature, fandom, and internet are not exactly separate subjects for me. *g* And she made me explain the concept of crackfic and come up with a few LM-based prompts. Over the course of the afternoon she also informed me that French has no words for 'nerd' or 'spoiler,' and that while there probably won't be any Deathly Hallows midnight parties at the bookstores, plenty of places will be selling it in English. (And then we spent the last half of the lesson on Rimbaud, during which I discovered that there are more types of sonnets in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my paltry English education.) Other charming excerpts:
"So who do you have for morning classes?"
"Nathalie."
"Ah, I'm sorry. Does she make fun of you?"
"Yeah, but she makes fun of everyone equally, so it doesn't bother me."
"Yes, well, Nathalie is very French that way."
"In fact, the biography doesn't mention it, but he was Verlaine's lover--"
"I knew that, actually."
"You told me when we started that you knew nothing about Rimbaud!"
"And if you don't do your homework, next lesson I'll make you carry on a conversation consisting of nothing but idiomatic phrases."
"Other languages you've studied? Types of literature you like?"
"Um... French and German, obviously... Russian, Arabic, Latin, Italian... Gothic... Anglo-Saxon..."
"Oh, have you read Ann Radcliffe?"
"...no, why?"
"It's always called a comédie musicale. Even if everyone dies!"