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[lauzeta]

I just made homemade pita bread. I rule.

Also, what insane language should I take next year? You may choose from the following:

Arabic
Sanskrit
Hebrew
Korean
Mandarin

Or submit your own choices in comments!

I am procrastinating studying for my Greek final tomorrow; can you tell?

Comments

[fuzzycoatimundi]

I think you should learn Russian. Or anything cyrillic.

But out of your list, probably Hebrew.

[lauzeta]

I thought about Russian, but somehow just don't feel like it at the mo. *shrug*

[lalaithlockhart]

Sanskrit would be a bomb. Hebrew would complete the triad of holy languages. Arabic would be like Mary Russell.
Ancient Egypt? Is that related to Arabic or distinct? Arabic would allow you to read Persian poetry, yes?
Question for deciding Sanskrit: how much do you love Gilgamesh? And India? More or less than the Middle East? More or less than Korean movie nights?
Of course, you will probably learn them all in the end...

[lauzeta]

Gilgamesh = so not Sanskrit.

You're cute, though. Your thought process on this mirror mine pretty much exactly. :P

[bang_hiss_meow]

I vote for Korean. All those lines and circles intrigue me.

[typsy_gypsy]

Sanskrit. I don't have a good reason why. :)

And a gold star for the entry tag: "marriageable skills"

[lauzeta]

When my mother taught me to make bread, she informed me that at least now I had one marriageable skill. I was sufficiently amused to pick up on the phrase. :)

[tantousha]

I would have to agree with Mr. Fuzzy and throw my (little) weight behind Russian... it's a good drunk language.

That said, it's not on the list, so I will probably say Mandarin, mostly because it is the only listed language that threatens to overtake English as the dominant language. (Dominant does not mean better or supreme, it merely means the language the world's political and cultural spheres run on in an international scale.) :D

[lauzeta]

Yo, grad student here. I do understand the concept of a dominant language, especially since three of the four (not including the ones I read poorly) I already read have held that position at one point or another. :P

[fuzzycoatimundi]

So... what you're saying is that you have to predict whether English or Mandarin will crumble as a dominant language, and choose to study the other one?

[fuzzycoatimundi]

Argh. I meant that you would study the one doomed to disappear. oops.