continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

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Re: Andy explains why he's too special to live a normal life

[(Anonymous)]

Which actually calls back to the Ancient Greek (and to a lesser degree, Latin) thing, too, because all we have of it (bar some attempts at reconstructing pronunciation) is the written form.

Re: Andy explains why he's too special to live a normal life

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, Greek/Latin I'm willing to give a LITTLE leeway on since the writing is all we have to go on. There are professors of Greek and Latin, I've known people who went to private Christian schools and took Latin. Learning dead languages through the literature is kind of the norm, though yes, speaking it is reconstruction.

But a living language like French? No, no, no, you do not learn to speak it by just reading it.

Re: Andy explains why he's too special to live a normal life

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Oh, definitely; I was just calling back to his claim that professors of Ancient Greek would come in and chat with him in it. Which, no.