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Sep 10, 2005 14:29

Wow. I didn't get up until noon.

The Firefly Event: I'm a sucker for a man in a vest. )

school, angst, fandom: firefly

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reposoir September 10 2005, 20:52:32 UTC
*blinks*

Swahili? You're learning that right now?! Wow. I didn't think universities really offered it. Huh.

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mad_maudlin September 10 2005, 20:59:07 UTC
Well, it's not a Swahili class per se--the class is actually Advanced Linguistics: Field Methods. The professor has got a native speaker of Swahili (a Kenyan student) for us to interrogate, and by the end of the semester we're supposedly going to have big fat grammars of Swahili that we made ourselves. The class spends more time debating stress placement and morphology than how to introduce yourself and order in a restaurant.

I tried to take Swahili lessons last spring, with one of the GTRAs--he's a linguist, too, and has been trying to teach himself so he can learn more about Islam in Africa. The lessons kinda petered out before midterms, though, because I was the only one coming, and we both got really busy.

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reposoir September 10 2005, 21:02:51 UTC
Oh, that's kinda interesting! One of my housemates is in Linguistics, but I don't think we have anything quite like that at our university!

The morphology going well? ;)

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mad_maudlin September 10 2005, 21:08:38 UTC
Um....::coughs:: Not really, but my friends list is moving apace. ::cringes::

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hermionemalfoy September 10 2005, 22:07:47 UTC
I don't care nearly as much about how language exists in the brain as how it's used in the community. We are crazy opposites! I am settling in for a year of solid neuroscience, with my core ling classes as a challenging aside.

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mad_maudlin September 10 2005, 22:59:26 UTC
I guess I'm not nearly as cool a cognitive science type as you and zorb.

The ironic thing is, I've yet to actually take a sociolinguistics class.

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hermionemalfoy September 10 2005, 23:02:38 UTC
I *have* taken one! Hee. It didn't do much for me--much too fluffy. Eh. I need neurons to be happy, I think.

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mad_maudlin September 10 2005, 23:08:25 UTC
Of the three sociolinguistics sections that have been offered since I had the prerequisites, one scared me and the others filled up too fast. I've got a better-than-decent chance of getting into one next semester, except I can only take two linguistics classes out of the three they're offering, and I'd rather take phonology.

I'm just weird like that.

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snoopypez September 11 2005, 01:44:20 UTC
Dude. Who warned you that the theme song is annoying? It's WONDERFUL and brilliant and perfect and I love it!

Oh just you wait for the rest. >:D Everyone is love. EVERYONE. Including the guest characters.

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mad_maudlin September 11 2005, 02:24:11 UTC
I want to see more of Shepherd Book, of all people. Although claireweasley has me search for Jayne/Simon subtext.

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snoopypez September 11 2005, 02:33:17 UTC
Oh, Book gets more and more intriguing. :D And Wash gets cuter and cuter. And Simon and River and Kaylee and Mal and Zoe and Inara and Jayne all get better and better!

There's tons of Simon/Jayne subtext. And Simon/Mal, too. And Mal/Jayne, Kaylee/Inara, Kaylee/River, Jayne/Book, Mal/Zoe, Mal/Wash, etc etc.. ;P

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mad_maudlin September 11 2005, 02:43:02 UTC
Oh, hell, the Kaylee/Inara hardly even counts as subtext--I was seeing it immediately.

As for the rest...well, it almost seems like Mal is the acting daddy of the ship, and Jayne and Kaylee are his bickering children, and Zoey and wash get to the mad aunt and uncle. And that makes Simon and River the ugly stepchildren. But the potential for a Mal/Zoe/Wash triangle (or threesome, whatever) is quite obvious.

They're just all so pretty.

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