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Language Classes, Tuesday

All language students:

If you have requested to join a class, consider yourself enrolled. Class rosters will be updated throughout the week. Remember that Friday is your last day to ADD or DROP a class.

Because we have so many new people, all vocabulary quizzes are postponed until next week. We will still be doing sign-ups for class presentations this week: I would like to start those in two weeks.

I will cover last week's lectures during lab hours this week, except for Friday: this Friday's lab hours will be a showing of Wings of Desire, open to all interested students. I strongly encourage European language students to attend.

There are no office hours today but I will be available during lab hours.

[ooc: Usual deal. Talk amongst yourselves.]

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Good morning, all. Help yourselves to the coffee or juice.

I hope you enjoyed your experience as cats last week. We'll be doing that again in a few minutes. This time, I want you to observe any differences in the way your senses interact in your normal form and in feline form.

Your homework for next time is 200 words on your cat experience so far, focusing on sense of smell and touch.

Good morning, Professor Dream. ::pours himself a glass of orange juice::

Before we are transformed, I have a question for you, sir. Based on personal observations, I'm aware that animals often "inflect" their barks or purrs or chirps on an individual level. Therefore, I was curious as to whether there are different dialects of Cat, much the same way that English has the American, Australian, British and Canadian dialects.

(OOC: The beverages cause intense dreams the next time we sleep, right?)

There are different dialects, this is so--they're not so much dependent on region or class, as they often are in spoken languages, but on breed. For example, a Persian will understand 'food' in a different way than an Abbysian.

But, as speakers of the same language can get at least the 'gist' of even the deepest regional accent, so can all animals basically understand one another.

[ooc: Yup. It's from the Dreaming, basically: being of dreams, it affects dreams.]

I had suspected something similar, but I appreciate the confirmation.

(OOC: Oh, this is gonna be good! ::evil grin:: This version of Beast is suppressing some intense and horrible memories and will probably have screaming nightmares all night. You may want to show up later tonight.)

It's an advanced topic. We'll cover it in more detail later in the semester.

[ooc: Cool.]

(OOC: And so it begins in both the dream world (http://www.livejournal.com/users/bluemanoncampus/6167.html) and the real world (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/38376.html).)

Mornin', sir.

*fills up a cup with half coffee, half juice*

Good morning, Professor Dream.

*takes a cup of coffee and adds a massive amount of sugar to it.*

Zero! I didn't realize that you were in this class. It's quite unusual, isn't it?

Hank! I haven' seen you around for a while.

Yeah, it's really wonky.

Oh, I've been around. Spending a lot of time in the library. Working. The usual. What've you been up to?

Oh, you know, about. I started an independent study group. We're just sort of waiting on permission from Principal Connor.

[ooc: any questions or tutoring requests here]

Hell, everyone. I hope you had a good lunch.

Last time we discussed language families. Today we'll start with grammar.

Who can tell me what an inflected language is?

*Hamlet plops into the back row with a small take-out dish of food. It appears to be sweet potatoes from the school cafeteria.*

Inflected languages would be ones that grammatically change words to show tense and gender and stuff, wouldn't it? Like in Latin, where you have to conjugate things all the time.

Hey, this tastes kind of funny.

That's correct. As languages develop they tend to move away from inflection, but it's still used somewhat in the languages we'll be covering.

So we'll start with going over parts of speech.

[ooc: argh. need to find an easier way to convey Dream's speech.]

*Parker comes in, sits at the back, does not look directly at Dream all period*

*after class, quietly:* Ms. Parker, may I see you for a few minutes?

*Parker hangs on to her notebook with white knuckles*

"Of course, sir."

*she'd clearly rather be anywhere else*

Do you have bad dreams, Ms. Parker?

*he knows the answer but it's polite to ask*

*Parker swallows and look down at her notebook*

_{Sometimes.

I can handle it.}

I can help you with those. I would prefer they not interfere with your studies.

*Parker's fingers open and close on her notebook*

Would... would it make it so I didn't have to remember?

*finally looks up at him*

*gently* I can do that. But think carefully if that's what you really want.

*she laughs, but nothing's funny*

I want to not be afraid.

*she bites her lips*

I'll think about it, sir.

_{Thank you}

You're welcome.

Nightmares can't hurt you, Ms. Parker, but they can hinder you.

Get some rest.

*at least they can't now that he know where the Corinthian is . . .*

Rogue walks in, noticably less hung over than she was during study hall (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/65525.html?thread=2326773#t2326773). She takes a seat in the back of the room, completely lost already.

Archie arrives with a wood-framed slate and a slate pencil, sits in the back row, and waits for someone else to supply the answers and, hopefully, help him get his bearings in this class.

Having arrived on time and seated himself near the middle of the group of seats, Krycek lets someone else answer the question, but listens with interest.

*is here* *is very, very obstinate*

Good afternoon, class.

Today we'll continue the discussion of the phonetic alphabet. Everyone please take a handout. There will be a quiz on the symbols next time.

I have an assignment for all of you, due a week from Thursday: find someone with an accent different from your own, record them speaking for about a minute, and try to write the differences between the way they pronounce common words and you do in the phonetic alphabet.

Sorry professor, I need to drop this course - my schedule filled up with other requirements first - maybe I can fit it in next semester.

That's fine. See you next semester.

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Language Classes, Tuesday

Cat TTh 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.

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Languages classes: open lab

Languages of Europe, TTh 1:00 - 3:00

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History of English, TTh 3:00 - 4:00

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