Still alive!

[vynessia361]

As far as livejournal is concerned, I've been dead since I started the new semester of college, so I feel I ought to post something. So, a short babble about what I've been up to, I guess?

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An RL friend convinced me to join a Valdemar-based forum RP that she's running. ("Convince" may be too strong a word... I was pretty excited about it.)

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[matt_doyle]

I do a fair amount of online RPing, and I hear you on... pretty much all of the above. Though the community i'm playing in now does a good enough job screening applicants to keep out the worst Conflict Ball offenders, and everyone has good spelling if their characters do.

Latin is awesome (says the Classical Studies major). I learned mroe about the English language from 100-level Latin than I did from 100-level English, especially when it comes to grammar and the parts of speech. The only better class for figuring things out about the structure and composition of the English language was Dr. Sprunger's 300-level History of the English Language (I am not remembering the exact name, but it an AMAZING class).

When you started talking about software engineering, for a moment I misread and thought you had a class in Social Engineering, which made me intensely jealous.

[vynessia361]

The coolest words are the really short ones (i, which is "go", ad, which is "toward") which show up everywhere. It's really kind of insane, how many words use "go."

I'm pretty sure that English course you mentioned is "English Language, Historical and Analytical." There may or may not be a tiny star in blue ink next to the description in my copy of the course catalog.

By "social engineering," do you mean the political science meaning or the security meaning? (Though both sound like they'd be interesting classes.)

[matt_doyle]

Re: Social engineering, I actually meant both -- the poli-sci version is basically just a macro-scale twist on the security version, in a sense...

Yes, that is the course I meant.

Ahhh I was thinking about a common latin root just earlier today but now i cannot remember which one and it's going to drive me crazy, haha. Undoubtedly I will comment again in like a month after having a eureka moment and remembering.