Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes on 15 December 2004 at 10:39:12 -0800 > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:17, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > When I took Russian in college, we did all the funny sounds and the > > funny writing (both typeset and hand-written) the first week. And it > > was never much of a problem after that. > > I either never knew or had forgotten that you took Russian in college. > My father taught Russian one there; was he your teacher? You probably > told me before, one way or the other, and I forgot. Nope, not your father. I don't *think* he was teaching Russian the year I took it (I took just two classes, my first two terms). But I could just remember that wrong. Anyway, he didn't teach *my classes*. I think I had Joe Sheppard, or however it's spelled (not necessarily like the guys who take care of sheep, so spell check doesn't help much). I probably should have taken my German deeper instead. But there I was, as a Freshman, considering taking upper-division foreign language literature courses which were otherwise taken mostly by majors, and me a techy math major; it just didn't look like a good idea. I suppose I could have taken them pass/fail. But I chickened out and started another language instead. At least I picked up a new alphabet and some new sounds. (Herr Rockey and maxing out the SAT German Achievement test having exempted me from the need to take the four basic language courses.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>