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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
Answer two of the following three questions.
1. We have learned Spider, Dragon, Rat and Cat. Which did you prefer and why?
I took a personal fancy to Dragon, because I found the rhyming to be very lyrical. It makes the language flow nicely, and it wasn't extremely difficult to learn.
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.
Having not personally dealt with any of the animals we learned how to speak to in class since learning them, I would have to assume what doing so would be like. A situation I believe having learned Cat, Dragon, Rat and Spider would be beneficial could possibly be if myself or a friend were having an unpleasant experience with one of the creatures. Myself, for one, being marignally terrified of spiders, knowing their language makes them seem less frightening (although it is a little silly to be petrified of an animal usually so tiny in comparison to myself...) because I can talk to them conversationally, if not fluently. Cat is highly beneficial because cats tend to be a popular domestic animal kept as a pet -- it's always fun to have conversations with your next door neighbor's pets. Dragon may not be as personally beneficial, as I've yet to meet any dragons outside of Lockheed, but I'm sure that in places where they are more common it is a good language to understand. Talking your way out of getting roasted and eaten by a dragon definately seems like a benefit to me. I find Rat to be beneficial becuase they are common creatures, and most people don't consider them to be very friendly or pleasant. Learning the language and "meeting" one of them changed my opinion on the creatures, and I realized that all rats are stereotyped after only some of their kind.
Part Two: Translation
Translate these sentences into creature languages to the best of your ability:
a. SPIDER -- "A stitch in time saves nine.”
//Sewing your web well saves your nine children.//
Sakura raises her eyebrows. Where the hell did she get "children"? She knew that was wrong.
b. DRAGON -- "Necessity is the mother of all invention."
//The necessity is the mother of all the inventions.//
Maybe a little better with this one...
c. RAT -- "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
//The grasps and the stones can break my bones, but the word will never damage it.//
d. CAT -- "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
//The whole subordinating, working and no higher work is a fact at the drill and at the cat-subordinated.//
Extra Credit
Write a dialogue (three to five exchanges) in the creature tongue of your choice.
In Dragon:
//Hello, friend.//
//Good day, sir.//
//Indeed. What is it that you read?//
//A good book, dear sir. A love triangle, and they're all in love with her.//
//What a shame that is, for all involved. Will the mystery of who she is with ever be solved?//
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