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Creature Languages, 03/02, Period 3
"I hope you are all prepared for your midterm. The test is on your desks; you have until the end of the class period to complete it. After you have handed it in, you may leave."
Creature Languages Midterm
Part One: Essay
Answer two of the following three questions.
1. We have learned Spider, Dragon, Rat and Cat. Which did you prefer and why?
2. Have you attempted to apply your lessons in this class in your dealings with animals in the world? Briefly discuss what you did and the results. If you have not, explain a situation in which it might be beneficial.
3. How do creature languages reflect the culture of the beings who speak them? Give an example.
Part Two: Translation
Translate these sentences into creature languages to the best of your ability:
a. SPIDER -- "A stitch in time saves nine.”
b. DRAGON -- "Necessity is the mother of all invention."
c. RAT -- "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
d. CAT -- "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Extra Credit
Write a dialogue (three to five exchanges) in the creature tongue of your choice.
[OOC: This is really a test of creativity, obviously. Handwave it if you have to, but it's 25 percent of your grade, and I need something by the end of Spring break.]
Creature Languages Midterm
Part One: Essay
Answer two of the following three questions.
1. We have learned Spider, Dragon, Rat and Cat. Which did you prefer and why?
2. Have you attempted to apply your lessons in this class in your dealings with animals in the world? Briefly discuss what you did and the results. If you have not, explain a situation in which it might be beneficial.
3. How do creature languages reflect the culture of the beings who speak them? Give an example.
Part Two: Translation
Translate these sentences into creature languages to the best of your ability:
a. SPIDER -- "A stitch in time saves nine.”
b. DRAGON -- "Necessity is the mother of all invention."
c. RAT -- "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
d. CAT -- "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Extra Credit
Write a dialogue (three to five exchanges) in the creature tongue of your choice.
[OOC: This is really a test of creativity, obviously. Handwave it if you have to, but it's 25 percent of your grade, and I need something by the end of Spring break.]
Re: Midterms, Creature, 3/02
I'm sorry, I can not choose which one I like the best, so I will select one and describe why I like it. Spider was the language I have utilized the least, but I really enjoy the language of Spider. It is a very subtle language, which is not a quality I normally possess myself.
Pippi goes on to discuss the "elegant simplicity" of the spider language, in which body language is a integral, can be spoken as easily with a bipedal for as with an arachnid. Pippi maintains that the Spider language, spoken by a bipedal creature seems to her to be very clandestine and would be a good way to communicate if the speakers didn't want people "in the know" to realize what was being said, or even that anything was being said at all.
2. Have you attempted to apply your lessons in this class in your dealings with animals in the world? Briefly discuss what you did and the results. If you have not, explain a situation in which it might be beneficial.
Pippi discusses attempting to use rat (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/620371.html?thread=24156499#t24156499) to find help in the junkyard... Which didn't turn out so well, but it did give her an option to try when she otherwise wouldn't have any.
Pippi then discusses how her experience with Dragon, and an encounter with a telepathic hawk (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/567070.html?thread=22511390#t22511390) let her puzzle out communications with an owl that Maia wanted to deliver a letter for her. (http://maias-notebook.livejournal.com/29673.html)
Pippi also gives a short redux of her previous conversation with Dream about Jack's birthday party and how speaking Dragon came in handy. (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/646030.html?thread=30546062#t30546062)
She closes with a bit about how one of her friends was turned into a cat for a short time this week and she was able to communicate with them.
Part Two: Translation
Translate these sentences into creature languages to the best of your ability:
a. SPIDER -- "A stitch in time saves nine.”
//Build your web strong in the morning and you will eat well all day without having to spend more time making repairs then eating.//
b. DRAGON -- "Necessity is the mother of all invention."
//When one has great need
It plants in the mind a small seed.
The nature of the seed will supply incentive.
That prompts the gardener to be inventive.//
c. RAT -- "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
//Your teeth would take a chunk out of my ears, but your chittering won't.//
d. CAT -- "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
//Hunting for yourself cuts into nap-time.//
Extra Credit
Write a dialogue (three to five exchanges) in the creature tongue of your choice.
Spider: Salutations!
Rat: Salu-what?
Spider: Salutations!
Rat: What are they? And where are you? Please tell me where you are and what are salutations?
Spider: Salutations are greetings. When I say salutations, it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning. Actually, it's a silly expression, and I am surprised that I used it at all. As for my whereabouts, that's easy. I'm up here. Look, I'm waving. See me now?
Rat: Oh yes, indeed! How are you? Good morning! Salutations! Very pleased to meet you.
Re: Midterms, Creature, 3/02
He answers very well.
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