*flops over*

[redjeweled]

Like a head of cabbage that has been left out on the kitchen counter for a few hours too long, I am wilted and slightly smelly from the heat. Blah, New York summer weather. Blah, lack of aircon in the flat

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[elrhiarhodan]

You seem to be doing an uncanny imitation of reliving my life...

Are you using Bright and Ringler's edition of Cassidy's Old English Grammar???

And if you're taking Latin as your other dead language...my head will explode

Well not quite, but I will squee and cheer and be very happy that someone understands and appreciates the need to learn as much obscure knowledge as one can.

[redjeweled]

I'm using Mitchell and Robinson's A Guide to Old English. Would you recommend that I look into Bright and Ringler as a supplementary text?

Alas, I am not taking Latin, but rather Middle English. I wish that I knew Latin and Ancient Greek, but I don't. Maybe eventually? I don't know. (My third language of the term is Italian, which I've been taking all through university.)

Obscure knowledge is one of the best sorts of knowledge! You'll find no disagreement on that front from me.

[elrhiarhodan]

If you can get a copy of Cassidy & Ringler, it probably couldn't hurt. It's available on Amazon.

Middle English - okay, we're still running parallel - the semester I took Old English, I also took a class in Chaucer, and ended up doing a performance of The Wife of Bath (instead of writing a paper about it).

That was one of my favorite academic semesters - Old English, Chaucer, Blake, The History of The Byzantine Empire, Early Renaissance Humanism, The History of Early Christianity, Latin III and Milton.

[redjeweled]

Late reply is late. Sheesh. My apologies!

I'm also taking a course on Chaucer this term! It's fabulous and fun, if I ignore all of the unenthusiastic undergraduates who unfortunately populate it. The professor, thankfully, is sheer delight. I adore her.

Vivat academia! Vivant professores!