Never become a medievalist

[highlyeccentric]

what about sifting through 561 examples of the word 'grund', and through a list of several thousand OE texts, and ticking off where the two lists coincide, and then being expected to make intelligent assumptions about the textual contexts of the word 'grund' is supposed to be fun? or normal in any way?????

i wonder if anyone else in the class actually did this??? if, heaven forbid, they did *more*? perhaps they translated examples, as i started off trying to do and gave up?

my brain it pains now.

although i did figure out how we know so much about OE vocab, despite comparitively few texts- latin-OE dictionaries produced right throughout the period.

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Aw, you poor thing :( Medievalism sounds pretty sucky. But do you really think that you're the only one who did it? It's an assessment, isn't it?

But hey, if you feel like you need to escape and you aren't doing anything tonight, I'm going to Missy Higgins at the Enmore and have a spare ticket. It is, of course, my fault that I have a spare, but I won't bore you (nor embarrass myself) with the details. (And I completely understand if you need to wash your hair tonight, or have a headache, or have work early tomorrow morning :P or if you just don't like her.)