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No.425982
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No.425983
>in an English seminar
>see that the guy next to me has written some notes in his textbook
>the text is Faulkner's Barn Burning
>the notes are the Norwegian translation for "barn" and "mule=female horse"
Not gonna make it.
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No.425984
>>425983
What's the seminar like
tbh i had to google to make sure what a mule is
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No.425985
>>425984
The seminars are great! It's all Anglo literature, so there's a lot of good stuff to choose from and there's rarely any assigned reading that I dislike. In the lectures we go into the backgrounds for the stories/poems and techniques and stuff, while in the seminars we mostly talk about how we'd proceed if we wanted to write essays about this stuff.
In Norwegian it's "muldyr", literally "mul animal"! And in Finnish it's apparently "muuli", so even that's an easy connection to make! Not that him not having heard the word before is the main problem, though, the main problem is that he somehow managed to look it up and get the completely wrong definition.
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No.425986
I thought mule was a donkey.
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No.425987
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>>425985
get some real English in you
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No.425988
>>425985
That's a whole bunch of uhh… Stuff alright! Nice that you're enjoying it though. Any fav assigned books yet?
Unfortunately I thought a mule was just another name for a bison lol, but yeah weird how he managed to get the wrong translation.
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No.425989
>>425987
I've had a real Amerikan in me a few times, if that counts!
>>425988
No assigned books as of yet! Just short stories and poems. With the favourites so far being Alice Munro's Everyday Use, Ted Kooser's Abandoned Farmhouse, and extra special love for Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays! Just a lovely poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays
Jeez! I think I figured out why he messed up though, 'cause if you go on Wiktionary and hurriedly look up mule, you'll see that the last two words in the definition is "female horse".
>>425986
Well I mean, it pretty much is! Just smarter than donkeys, hardier than horses, and easier to care for than both.
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No.425990
>>425989
And having the least graceful name.
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No.425991
>>425989
Well glad it's been all good so far anyways.
I'm really bad at reading poems since i never know how the rhythm of it goes. Was comfy though.
It makes no sense that i didn't know it since some religious songs say jesus rode on a mule. or something.
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No.425992
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No.425993
>>425990
And, confusingly, the name comes from "mukhlòs", meaning "male donkey". That just muddies the waters further!!
>>425991
Even the first line kinda blew me away! "Sundays too my father got up early" just packs so much stuff into a single line, instead of saying like "my father worked hard every day" or something. It's super nice!
Waaasn't that a donkey, though?
>>425992
>closing yourself off from a massive amount of art
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No.425994
>>425993
At least "horse" sounds powerful and "donkey" sounds fun but "mule" just sounds like an insult.
Maybe he just enjoyed the sight of the rising sun.
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No.425995
>>425993
pretty efficient, creative and clever and stuff getting that through to the reader without outright saying he worked everyday as you said!
it was, that's what i meant. that i should have known that mule is a donkey thing
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No.425996
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No.425997
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No.425998
>>425994
What about the fact that you can also use the word "ass" for "donkey", though?
A valid interpretation, but not one really supported by the rest of the poem as far as I can see!
>>425995
Exactly! It's the first time I've wanted to actually track down a poet's books and read one or two.
Oh, I see!
>>425996
Yes.
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No.425999
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No.426000
>yes
>>425997
>not owning the books
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No.426001
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No.426002
>>425998
True, but if you think about it, donkey could also be Mr.Key and that's mystic and divine af.
Post the rest.
I could never really get into poems super much but there are exceptions.
>>426001
Not each though, right?
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No.426003
tbh no 40k book out classes The Redeemer tbh
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No.426004
>>426002
nop i'll look for a torrent for it
>>426003
>30k books
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No.426005
>>425997
40k nerd
>>425998
only dorks read poems!
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No.426006
>>426004
I have a 4 hour drive ahead of me tomorrow. I really could use something to make it more bearable.
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No.426007
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No.426008
>>426006
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CF8EF00F0222ADF5EA5F98A27D2D9FF22CB700BB&dn=Warhammer%2040K%20The%20Horus%20Heresy&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.vanitycore.co%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.baravik.org%3a6970%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker2.wasabii.com.tw%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.desu.sh%3a6969
just book hours rising to high priority
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No.426009
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No.426010
>>426002
Uuuh, yes I suppose!
Here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays
And no, I'm not at all a poem guy either, but this one worked for me!
>>426005
I sort of agree, but I enjoyed this one, so maybe I'll enjoy his other stuff too! Real men, of course, read nothing but Twitch chat.
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No.426011
>>426010
youtube comments are for the real intellectuals
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No.426012
>>426010
The strife of living in Greenland
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No.426013
>>426009
i will be expecting a review of how much of a cunt abaddon is
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No.426014
>>426011
The top .1% IQ only read posts in "you laugh you lose" threads on /b/.
>>426012
Iiif that's a reference of some sort, I don't get it!
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No.426015
>>426013
Wait is this 40k stuff
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No.426016
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No.426017
>>426016
While that's a lot more hopeful than the one about an abused housewife I've listened to on my way home from Croatia, do I need to be at all familiar with the lore to get anything out of it? Because like…I'm not.
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No.426018
>>426017
not really the hours heresy is the prequel to the main 40k stuff, so you can go into knowing nothing.
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No.426019
>>426018
Alright, cool.
I'll finally understand what the hype is about.
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No.426020
the hype is when you play rogue trader or black crusade tbh
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No.426021
>>426020
I have literally no idea what this means.
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No.426022
>>426020
im playing black crusade at the moment, im just a little alpha legionnaire
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No.426023
>>426021
have you ever injected a pnp rpg?
>>426022
oh nice
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No.426024
All I know about 40k is that there are heretics, power armors(?)
And a golden jesus/ceasar figure.
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No.426025
>>426023
Never. I've never even played DnD despite always wanting to.
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No.426026
>>426025
DnD is basic bitch tier nowerdays tbh.
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No.426027
>>426026
So? It seems pretty fun.
I feel like I missed out on so much.
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No.426028
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No.426029
>>426028
Wouldn't that require some people in my proximity to be interested as well?
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No.426030
>>426029
well yes and no, I use https://roll20.net/ sometimes
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No.426032
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