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Thread created on 1339510110 by wodentoad.
Status: Open thread, open to all.
I only have three this semester: Calculus 2 (Integrals), Chemistry, and Japanese.
There are two versions of chemistry, one for the core requirement, one for majors, the first being high school review, the second college level, but my advisor insisted I take both because of the gap, so this semester is the college level course. As for Japanese, this will be my second crack at it as well, as I remember almost nothing from it. I maintain that since there are volcanoes in Japan, it is justified, and not at all because I watch way too much anime.
in reply to wodentoad's post:
Both sound very interesting! I wish I was studying something too, other than bobbin lace that is, and that's hardly studying. I miss syntax and linguistics.
Sounds like you're having a good summer, despite the mistake. May all go swimmingly for you in your studies, and for the Teacloth!
in reply to Mekone's post:
Another linguist! Did you know @GraceT and I are also linguists?
@Wodentoad: Always do what your supervisor says ... unless they're wrong! (I was actually 3 years older than my PhD supervisor so I would occasionally play the age card - comes highly recommended!)
in reply to shindeco's post:
I did not know, but I'm delighted to hear this!
@Wodentoad: I hope the Japanese goes better this time around! My cousin's daughter is studying Japanese at the moment, enjoying it very much.
in reply to Mekone's post:
Yes, I'm a linguist. My organisation is interested in obscure minority languages. I know a little bit about Austronesian languages - I can only speak one of them, though. 
I have long wanted to learn Cherokee (my amcestral language) but finding opportunity is hard. Linguistics is a beautiful field of study!
in reply to GraceT's post:
I've only had a very short introduction to Austronesian languages, I've mostly dealt with and studied Romance and Germanic languages, and Tok Pisin.
in reply to wodentoad's post:
Oh, that would be wonderful to study! But hard, as you say. I hope you may get the chance and that it will be the right time for it, for you! Finding opportunity is the thing for me too, trying to keep languages alive and finding someone to listen to.
My biggest failing is confidence. I can be flustered easily and often say a wrong syllable. I am working on that carefully this time.
in reply to wodentoad's post:
I see, and I hope you'll feel your confidence growing so you won't get flustered as easily. I make so many mistakes in all languages I use, but I can't remember anyone being angry or irritated or even offended. Mostly, people either smile or laugh. That's in non-academic situations though. Are your teachers/tutors very strict?
I have heard the Spanish professors are at my college, but the Japanese professor is very sweet and friendly. She is also a native speaker so that helps. She is demanding when it comes to work, though, which will be a challenge.
I am amazed at people who can speak multiple languages... and once knew a gentleman that spoke 7! My daughter speaks 3. I have strictly a math & science brain and struggle with ENGLISH! 
I take comfort in the fact that I'm a multi-crafter. I can switch between knitting, crochet, and tatting with relative ease. I can make friendship bracelets and I have done some weaving. I can cut AND fold paper, and I can already do western calligraphy. If I can be a multicrafter, I'm halfway to being multilingual already. 
in reply to wodentoad's post:
There was this one semester with Physics, Organic Chem, Statistics, and Number Theory, I spent most time on a required art class: Introduction to Drawing... too much problem solving. Tatting can preserve your mind.. something creative and totally your own.
Erin, I've been enjoying watching your tea cloth grow. I saw what appears to be a similar tatted tea cloth for sale on eBay and wondered if it might be made from the same pattern as yours. (Hopefully the link below will work.)
in reply to BrendaB's post:
Wow - that IS the same teacloth! At USD60 or even USD78 it's a steal! Who's going to buy it? It has to be someone in the USA.
in reply to GraceT's post:
That really is a deal when you think of all the hours that (we know from following this post for the last seven years) went into tatting it. I wonder if anyone besides this unknown tatter and Erin have ever dared to make this.
I've looked at it many times. But there are errors in nearly all the patterns in my book, so I never dared start this. Erin blows me away.
Anyway, someone should give that teacloth on eBay a good home...
I'd love to see a step by step comparison between Erin's masterpiece and this ebay one. I wonder who tatted it; how long it took them; what they did about the messed up instructions; and why on earth it's on ebay, of all places!
It looks somewhat worse for wear. I'm guessing that it was tatted decades ago...
I've changed my mind about the fabric panels. It makes ironing it possible without a maid and housekeeper to help you.. I'm not crazy about the look of them, but being able to do those, and keep them all neat by putting flexible tatting between means it could actually be used, and not just hauled out for some religious occasion like a wedding or funeral.
