Languages, 10/26

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

To his Classics students, Dream delivers a lecture on Koine Greek. After he is done, he puts forward a question for discussion: What were the benefits of Koine as an international language? Are international languages still valuable?

For his Languages of Asia students, he passes out calligraphy paper, pens, and a primer on Chinese writing. Work on understanding why Chinese is written as it is written, and on copying the characters showin in the handout. Next week, you will move into writing with understanding.

Again, there are no classes on Friday. I will see you all on Monday.

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Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

Janet signs into Classics and drinks her coffee while she waits for someone to start the discussion with.

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam signs in. She has no need for coffee today.

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders has a definite need for coffee today, but he nods over at Sam anyway. "Hey, Carter."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Anders. How're you?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

By way of an answer, he smiles sleepily and waves one of his cups of coffee at her. "Frakkin' exhausted, but good. You?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I'm good." She smiles. "Careful about all that coffee. People'll end up thinking you're Doctor Jackson."

"Oh, and congrats on the Pyramid thing. You must be really excited, huh?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

He smiles and nods, and takes another gulp. "The coffee thing is Zero's fault and she admits it. As for the Pyramid thing, yeah. I'm gonna be worn out by the time the scouts get here, but training is good. It's great having Thrace around to train with, too. We tend to push each other more."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I know exactly how that works. Unfortunately, my coffee addiction started long before I got here."

She nodded, remembering how many times she and Daniel had played off each other intellectually. "It's good that you have someone to challenge you--have you considered teaching other people to play? They might not be great at it, but they'd be other bodies in the way."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

He nods back, and offers her a gumball. "Courtesy of the built-in gumball machine in my door, and Bridge, who put it there. Yeah, definitely. We've already had several people ask. Someday this week --" he grimaces -- " I'll get to the dean's office and get clearance for a team. MacGyver already agreed to sponsor it."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

Janet grins at Sam. "How's it going?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Good, thanks." She smiles, then leans over to whisper, "I seem to have a date for Thursday."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

Janet absolutely cannot resist the urge to hug Sam in the middle of class. "And?" she asks.

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam's a little surprised that Janet's hugged her in public, let alone in the middle of class, but whispers, "It's with Jack."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

Janet presses her lips together and looks very, very amused. "Did you hear the radio last night?" she asks in a whisper. "God, that's great! Did you ask hm out? Did he ask you out?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Um, no, I fell asleep and missed the broadcast. Why?" She's a little wary of all the amusement on Janet's face. It doesn't usually bode well for her.

"I had to ask him out because if I waited for him I'd have been forty again...Janet, I don't know how it happened...one minute we were bickering, the way we always do, the next one I'd asked him out and he was stammering like an idiot."

She chuckled. "It was kind of cute. Except for the part where he took ages to reply. Then I kissed him. And we'll both remember it and there was no alien virus."

"Janet...there's nothing about a shot of Depo-Provera that would make me do something like that, right?" She asked, suddenly worried.

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

"You were mentioned," she says, trying not to snicker. "I was up late last night."

"Good for you. It's entirely possible." She grins again. "So you blurted it out and he mumbled and stammered? It's almost business as usual, then."

"It was I'm sure it was adorable. The phrase 'plutonium's got nothing on this guy' might be appropriate? You kissed him? And there's no way you'd have been exposed to an alien virus?" She tried to remember whether she kept a thermometer in her backpack these days.

Janet laughed. "No, Sam, a shot of Depo-Provera is not going to change your behavior in any way. You asked him out because you wanted to."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders signs in, a large three-shot red eye in each hand, and nods to Janet. "Hey."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

Janet waves at Anders. "Hey."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"How goes it, Fraiser?" He reaches in his pocket and offers her a gumball.

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

"Very good so far," she says, taking the gumball and chewing on it. "You?"

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"With this Pyramid training? There's not enough hours in the day. But there's coffee. So I guess things are pretty good."

[OOC -- ETHICS]

[chasingangela]

(You're the same player as actingltcrumpet, right? I need to talk to you about the ethics assignment at some point, b/c we're paired up. Thanks.)

Re: [OOC -- ETHICS]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

[OOC: *nods* I intend to get Archie back into play sometime this evening. Apologies for his absence, but he can be damned difficult to play and I haven't been in the right headspace for it lately. Demanding little bastard, he is.]

Re: Classics, 10/26

[janet_fraiser]

"When did you discover coffee?" Janet eyes his cup. "You may never sleep again."

Re: Classics, 10/26

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Zero's fault." He nods emphatically. "And as tired as I am, I'm pretty sure I'll end up passing out and sleeping for an entire weekend soon."