highlyeccentric | Entries tagged with philology

eggs_maledict : Dear Latin: Eeeeeverybody hates you. Including people you haven't met. Please feel free to go cry in a corner, lonely and unloved.

goblinpaladin : Dear Eggs: You made me cry, I'm a telling my mummy on you.

highlyeccentric : Dear Latin: You don't have a mummy.

goblinpaladin : Dear Highly: I DO SO. AND ALSO SHE LOVES ME THE MUCHEST. Sincerely, Latin.

highlyeccentric : Dear Latin: My Supervisor says your mummy, Proto-Indo-European, didn't exist. So NER. Sincerely, your Germanic would-be-nephew-if-you-had-a-mummy.

goblinpaladin : Dear Highly: Proto Indo-European is EVERYONE's mummy. I am descended from...umm... Etruscan? I DON'T KNOW MY MUMMY. BOO-HOO-HOO. I am all ALONE in the world. Sincerely, Latin.

highlyeccentric : Dear Latin: Sorry about your mummy. We refuse to admit relation to you. Sincerely, the descendants of Proto-Germanic.

highlyeccentric : Dear Latin: I made a mistake. Frankish is my true love. I wish I could go back and divorce you. Sincerely, French.

goblinpaladin : Dear French: That is okay. You never treated me right anyway- you threw away my inflexions and what you did to my pronunciation was just awful. Also, I never loved you anyway. Sincerely, Latin.

And now I realised I missed the opportunity to make etymological 'I wish I could quit you' jokes.

Well... etymology. And possibly not naked. But still, a girl can dream, right?

Throughout his sermons Wulfstan demonstrates not only an enthusiasm for etymology in a fashion typical of many medieval writers, but a particular fondness for defining technical terms by comparing Greek and Latin synonyms or Latin and English synonyms.
-Thomas N. Hall, "Wulfstan's Latin Sermons", in Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, ed. Matthew Townend (Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2004), pp 93-140 (pp 105-6).

I knew I loved this man for a reason.
(Wulfstan, that is. Not Thomas Hall, who is nevertheless pretty cool.)

Angelina Jolie is doing philology!!! Angelina Jolie is doing philology naked!!!

(Does it get any better than that?)

Thus asks Michael Drout, in his personal review of the new Beowulf movie. Indeed, this is a question worth asking. Is anything hotter than naked philology? I think not.

iremos, my german-american lover, had an icon when I first met her, a most excellent icon which ordered its viewers to WRITE NAKED. Which is pretty hot, but not as hot as philology.
Your injunction for this week: DO PHILOLOGY NAKED (but please, for the love of Bede, don't post photos of it on the internet).

you feel a certain sympathy for this guy:

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his girlfriend must be an art historian. Or a physicist. She doesn't seem to be sharing the joys of subjunctive clauses.

* This mental image brought to you by the inestimable

ulfruna, who bastardised this cartoon, which can be found on friendlyathiest.com

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