Have I just proved all stereotypes about German academics?
Now, I don't mean to be prudish, but I swear, this conversation just happened, and yes, it is SLIGHTLY out of the norm.
[a classics society talk has just happened; it is a trinity one and therefore I do not know most people, being a ucd girl. Everyone is in the Porterhouse.]
MIDDLE-AGED GAULOISE-SMOKING GERMAN CLASSICS PROFESSOR CALLED ANDREAS: So I learned Akkadian.
ME: *starstruck* You know Akkadian?
ANDREAS: And I learned Sumerian and Hittite.
ME: I envy you.
ANDREAS: Don't you mean you admire me?
ME: *retaining some savvy* No, I envy you.
ANDREAS: They are easy to learn. You could learn them.
ME: *attempting to keep the savvy* Well, Hittite is Indo-European, and I know Latin, and I suppose the existing vocab is probably, combined, less than that, but they are still difficult.
ANDREAS: Oh, individually, they have more vocab than, say, Greek. *totally trying to get into my pants* But I could teach you. We have a Hittite reading group starting soon; you could join.
ME: I wouldn't be able to. I'd prefer to learn German (why the hell did I say that? I know I have a German fetish, but why did I encourage him?) but I couldn't learn anything that fast!
ANDREAS: I would just have to teach you Hittite the German way.
ME: What's the German way?
ANDREAS: With discipline.
ME: What, you flog me if I make mistakes?
ANDREAS: Exactly.
ME: I think that's illegal.
ANDREAS: So you would have to agree to learn it the German way.
ME: You'd like me to sign a contract saying that you could flog me for my mistakes?
ANDREAS: Yes. Ireland is a peasant society, but I see you are one of the few intelligentsia here.
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I left, I should have left the bar, but instead I just got another drink, and ended up hugging him before I left. I promise I did not agree to any BDSM Hittite lessons! Much though I want to learn Hittite.
[a classics society talk has just happened; it is a trinity one and therefore I do not know most people, being a ucd girl. Everyone is in the Porterhouse.]
MIDDLE-AGED GAULOISE-SMOKING GERMAN CLASSICS PROFESSOR CALLED ANDREAS: So I learned Akkadian.
ME: *starstruck* You know Akkadian?
ANDREAS: And I learned Sumerian and Hittite.
ME: I envy you.
ANDREAS: Don't you mean you admire me?
ME: *retaining some savvy* No, I envy you.
ANDREAS: They are easy to learn. You could learn them.
ME: *attempting to keep the savvy* Well, Hittite is Indo-European, and I know Latin, and I suppose the existing vocab is probably, combined, less than that, but they are still difficult.
ANDREAS: Oh, individually, they have more vocab than, say, Greek. *totally trying to get into my pants* But I could teach you. We have a Hittite reading group starting soon; you could join.
ME: I wouldn't be able to. I'd prefer to learn German (why the hell did I say that? I know I have a German fetish, but why did I encourage him?) but I couldn't learn anything that fast!
ANDREAS: I would just have to teach you Hittite the German way.
ME: What's the German way?
ANDREAS: With discipline.
ME: What, you flog me if I make mistakes?
ANDREAS: Exactly.
ME: I think that's illegal.
ANDREAS: So you would have to agree to learn it the German way.
ME: You'd like me to sign a contract saying that you could flog me for my mistakes?
ANDREAS: Yes. Ireland is a peasant society, but I see you are one of the few intelligentsia here.
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I left, I should have left the bar, but instead I just got another drink, and ended up hugging him before I left. I promise I did not agree to any BDSM Hittite lessons! Much though I want to learn Hittite.