tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post114139446714619723..comments2024-03-28T11:03:41.050-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: Beowulf Hobbyists of the World, Unite!Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-1141572511449558642006-03-05T09:28:00.000-06:002006-03-05T09:28:00.000-06:00I feel your pain. The most common question I'll g...I feel your pain. The most common question I'll get about economics is about next quarter's forecasts, or interest rates, or a good stock to buy. (As if I'd be sitting in an advance-purchase seat in coach with that information!)<BR/><BR/>My usual response is something along the lines of "economics is sex, death, and why the lines are longest at the rollercoaster."Stephen Karlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02945914425504935287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-1141440458748494982006-03-03T20:47:00.000-06:002006-03-03T20:47:00.000-06:00Thanks for introducing this site. I've added it to...Thanks for introducing this site. I've added it to my blogroll links under Old English.<BR/><BR/>My pet peeve is that so many people still refer to "The Dark Ages." But that's more to do with my interests in history...<BR/><BR/>Jeffery Hodges<BR/><BR/>* * *Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-1141434483418166332006-03-03T19:08:00.000-06:002006-03-03T19:08:00.000-06:00After seven years as a very part-time adjunct, I'm...After seven years as a very part-time adjunct, I'm still amused by how irked my students are by all the things I don't know, examples of which have included medieval embroidery, Celtic languages, metallurgy, neopaganism, Scottish history, regional developments in medieval agriculture, and the 40 most recent fantasy novels about Arthur and Guenevere. Heck, I once had a student who criticized me for not handing back papers according to a system that conformed with game theory. For every nut, though, I meet at least five students who have something new to teach me, and their interest in some obscure area of medieval life plus a little research guidance often leads to some pretty good papers.<BR/><BR/>What's harder is disabusing students of their cherished myths about the Middle Ages--but that's a subject for another post entirely.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06014378351645909573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-1141422584843132792006-03-03T15:49:00.000-06:002006-03-03T15:49:00.000-06:00I would have to classify myself as a Beowulf hobby...I would have to classify myself as a Beowulf hobbyist, too, since (alas!) I didn't even read it in modern English till a few years ago. That led me to the much broader field of Germanic languages and literature. If all goes well, academic studies of the same will happen in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, don't worry, I have enough contacts with academia to know better than accost professors. :-P I do hope to interest more lay people in Germanic literature and language issues through my own blog, which is ultimately just my way of keeping my finger in the Black Forest cake of Germanic studies.Eric Kingsepphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16476165935626170539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-1141408538681316462006-03-03T11:55:00.000-06:002006-03-03T11:55:00.000-06:00I'm not a professor, but even I get this kind of s...I'm not a professor, but even I get this kind of stuff when people hear I studied English literature. One person kept grilling me about various theories of Shakespeare's "true identity" and seemed rather shocked to discover that I wasn't "up" on all the theories.Kate Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com