THE 10,000 Post Thread

[astronelson 339]

8646.

I'd ask why, but it will almost certainly involve sport and I really don't care at all about that.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8647)

Everyone's entitled to a Bill Buckner moment, I suppose.

[kj3400 178]

8648

So proud of myself. I beat 2 games last night and am getting the third game in the trilogy today.

[Korot 6]

8649. I'm lost again?

[Vahr 341]

8650

Blah, something got into my email this morning.... I've changed my passwords and removed remember passwords on Firefox.

[Larks2242 251]

8651.

Got medel of honor in the mail gonna play it soon, might not be on ST tonight

[Duke87 1,070]

(8652)

I have not played a video game since August.

[astronelson 339]

8653.

I haven't played a video game since yesterday.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

8654

I haven't played any videogames since August, internet flash games not withstanding.

[Chptrk 86]

8655.

I played a video game this weekend, but I usually don't have time for them during the school week.

On another note, I'm currently reading the descriptions of each level of Hell from Dante's Inferno and writing a paragraph about the crimes and punishments and how they fit. Only reading the descriptions because that's what our teacher told us to, and then only skimming them because I read the whole thing back in my sophmore year.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8656)

So... your teacher told you to just read the sparknotes?

[astronelson 339]

8657.

Or the annotations, which Dante's Inferno is usually chock full of. Or the descriptions Dante writes, and not any bits about the actual people there.

My favourite translation of it was one that managed to maintain the same metre and rhyming scheme as the original Italian.

[Chptrk 86]

8658.

Not the sparknotes, no. You see, in the book we have that contains the Inferno (and some sections of Purgatorio and Paradiso), before each Canto is a description of what takes place in the Canto. We just have to read those descriptions (writen by the translator, I believe) and then write about that. I guess it was to save us some time and so we wouldn't become totally bogged down in all the footnotes explaining who all the people are and why Dante didn't like that an such.

Basically, the shortened reading is just for the assignment, and we could always read the whole thing if we wanted to.

I gotta start Canterberry Tales after this, we've got to read a bunch of stories from it by next week...well, at least I already know what college/uni will be like now.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8659)

I actually read Inferno back in high school (on my own. wasn't assigned). I started reading Purgatorio, but ended up putting it down a few Canti in because it just wasn't interesting anymore now that they were out of hell.

[Vahr 341]

8660

Whoo, time for middle English!!

I haven't played any video games (occasional short bout of SC4 nonwithstanding nor few and far 5 minute races with friends on the Wii) since... July.

[Modediting my own post lol... fixed #. Also, I'm now a lobbyist]

[Chptrk 86]

8661.

The Inferno was writen in Italian, which caused a big stir being in the vernacular. Although we listened to my teacher read the first few lines of Canterberry tales in the English it was written in, and at first it sounded incredibly German, until we listened a bit more and then it became almost completely clear.

[Multi-sniping eh?]

[astronelson 339]

8662.

Well, English is a Germanic language.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8663)

Originally, at least. Then came the Norse. Then the French. Then it was decided to take technical terms from Greek and Latin. Then... we pulled random loan words from all over the place. Now everyone borrows from us.

[un1 41]

8664 - Civ V has still taken over my life...

[astronelson 339]

8665.

The English language has some 2 million words, although that does include quite a lot of technical terms. The average estimated vocabulary of an English-speaking college graduate is larger than the entire French language.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

8666

The Spanish language has a lot of words also.

[Chptrk 86]

8667.

Due to reading the Inferno, I didn't want to post the post before this one.

My teacher (of the same Western Lit. Class I'm reading the Inferno for) was mentioning today about where the F word comes from and why it is considered a bad word as opposed to a few other words, and he said it came from when the Norman conquerers of England tried forcing the people to take up French, creating the mix between the languages.

Oh, I feel like adding it's more of a history/philosophy/literature class then just a basic literature one. Yay for dual-enrollment college courses taught at my school! (of which this is the only one.)

[Muck308 55]

8668

You guys sure learn lots of stuff.

Yay for stuff!

[Larks2242 251]

8669.

Medal of honor multiplayer is very fast paced.

[astronelson 339]

8670.

And there's Larks' signature non sequitur. And here's the last post of the page, unless there's been a miscount or my math is wrong.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8671)

And here's the first post of the next page!

[kj3400 178]

8672

Ah the PFB strikes. Not like I didn't see it coming...

[astronelson 339]

8673.

The PFB strikes, and we strike back and defeat it, temporarily.

[Skimbo 304]

8674

War against PFB is as effective as Bush's war against terrorism was

[Korot 6]

8675. PFB could be taken care of, if we switch to a different forums software, but I don't see that happening any time soon.