fandomhigh | Creature Languages, 5/4, Period 3

Entry tags:

creature languages

Creature Languages, 5/4, Period 3

Dream stands before the class, arms folded, Matthew perched on his shoulder.

"This is my very last class at Fandom High, and it is not without regret that I take my leave. I know this class was difficult for many of the humans among you; thank you for being open to other languages, other creatures, other cultures. I hope it will prove useful, or at least interesting, as your lives progress."

"After you turn in your final projects, you may leave, or talk to me or to each other."

Dream went to close the classroom door at that point, and Matthew hopped onto his desk; in sotto voce Raven, the bird added, //Thanks for listening to my boss. I think you guys made him pretty happy. He'll miss you.//

Overhearing some of this, Dream fixed him with a glare, but his lips quirked into a slight smile.

[OOC: Hand in the interview if you got a chance to do one; if not, handwave away. I do need to know what grade your character got on the project by Friday evening so I can get the final grades in. I know

courier_gavin is AFK; please let me know if anyone else is.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

As you do.

Pippi and Mr. Neilson sign in.

Walter signs in.

Zero signed in.

Molly signed in.

Blair signs in.

Stark signs in.

Sakura signed in. After most definately not signing in to entirely the wrong class. >>;

Xander signs in ~~omgwtf late cos coma~~

You have had plenty of time, yes?

Walter turns in a project that started out primarily as an interview in Cat with Furrball (http://nadiathesaint.livejournal.com/34950.html) but which morphed into a linguistic compare and contrast including his encounter and failed talk with a shark (http://strongestgirl.livejournal.com/35742.html) and a discussion with a lobster (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/800238.html) in which his wee self picked up some rather unorthodox vocabulary. He probably has some interesting insights into the fact that it's much easier to speak Shark underwater and with gills.

It's A work and he's put a lot of effort into it since he's had to miss a few key classes because of unavoidable crises. He's hoping for brownie points at the least and extra credit at best.

Pippi turns in a lengthy discussion she had with Mr. Neilson. It's less an interview and more a discussion on how they communicated with eachother before she learned to speak Monkey. She also has a small section on how it is easier to speak shark underwater with gills and a selection of lobster curse words.

Not exactly what she was assigned, but it's A work.

For Mr. Neilson's part he turns in a paper covered in paw pints. Dream could probably read it.

He actually interviewed the lobster while Weetiny Pippi and Walter were off freeing the other lobster. Said lobster was very crabby (yuck yuck), and the answers are filled with even more colorful language then either Walter or Pippi indicated in their own papers.

Zero turns in her interview with a seven-legged spider she found in her room, in which she managed to hit all the key points and even get in some specific details. ~~The actual interview would be linked to, but the mun sucks and forgot to actually do it.~~ There are a few minor translation errors, however. Once again, her policy that using Cat for this class would be cheating has come back to bite her in the arse. B+

Molly's interview with a sewer rat may not be the most well written paper ever, but it is interesting reading and there are only a couple of translation errors. C+

Blair's interview with the snake is dry and for some reason there's a lot of talk about relationships. But the translation is spot on. A.

~~Because mun is lazy, she is handwaving the actual content of this project.... cough.~~ Sakura has two interviews in her project, one with her best friend's neighbor's cat at home while she was gone, and one with a spider. The second of the two seems a little rushed, she'd only gotten the interview done on Monday. Overall, they cover what was necessary, if not a little vaguely. Depending on Dream's attitude toward her continual absences, ~~for which the mun apologizes for profusely~~ she could get anywhere from a C to a B.

Stark turns in an interview with a spider he found in the clinic one night.

It's a little disjointed and there are a few completely bizarre questions thrown in, though the spider evidently took it all in stride. He did ask the right sorts of questions and get the information he was supposed to, he just added in some other random things as well. The translations are sound, and if you can follow the conversational thread of the interview, it's fairly good.

B+, unless Dream's really not in the mood for non-linear spider conversations today.

Xander turns in - with only a little facepalming - an actual recording of his interview with RIC, and a written translation and explanation of what he thinks he was thinking when he asked the questions. The Cat translation is ok in general but not literally correct, but the rest of the languages are pretty spot-on.

'Course whether RIC counts as a Creature is up for debate. Xander totally thought he was a Doggie at the time of the interview, though.

Your call on the grade (of course) - the actual work is probably A-; the rest depends on whether Dream wants to take off for RIC not being a Creature or give style points for the multiple languages. ;-)

Draco turns in a interveiw he had with a spider he found in the boy's bathroom. The first few minutes contains Draco asking the spider if it was a pervert and if not, why it was in the boy's bathroom.

There are some errors and the interview came out more like an interrogation (What? Spiders are scary!) so he ends up getting a B.

Talk to each other, or to Dream, or get out of there,

Pippi is very sad that Dream is leaving.

And nobody can look as sad as Pippi when Pippi is sad.

Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Re: Sign in, Creature, 5/4

Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Re: Final Projects, Creature, 5/4

Other class stuff, Creature, 5/4

Re: Other class stuff, Creature, 5/4

Re: Other class stuff, Creature, 5/4

Re: Other class stuff, Creature, 5/4

Re: Other class stuff, Creature, 5/4

OOC, Creature, 5/4

Re: OOC, Creature, 5/4