Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Grad school

[mildred_of_midgard]

Heh. Yeah, you should have been made to learn statistics :P

SERIOUSLY.

(after doing a couple of weeks of grammar)

I think that's more time than we did on grammar. I think we had 2 days of grammar? No homework, just the prof lecturing from Evans' Grammar of Middle Welsh. And then it was "dive right in and figure it out as you go." I survived partly because I had found a textbook online, one that I kept secret so as to keep my edge over the other students.

These days, I am facepalming *so hard* at the idea of secret textbook, omfg. The goal was apparently to keep us from learning anything!! Or as I've started saying about keeping us away from translations or context, like not having us do Cicero's Catiline when we did Sallust's Bellum Catilinae: "Lest we accidentally learn something."

This was not a US graduate language program, though, so I suppose not subject to the terrible pedagogy you have described to me before.

Well, the undergrad programs do the same thing! I suspect you got lucky because it was a lang/lit course.