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The Author Has Fun in Greek
I have a Greek class on Euripides' Medea that goes from 6:30-8:30 pm, usually meeting in one of the numerous independent coffee shops around town, where the caffeine, sugar, and alcohol flow freely. With that kind of combination, naturally so does the wit:
"I need to go home and write a lab report."
"Beg pardon? You need to ride a labrador?"
- Exchange between Josephine and Dr. Perraud
"The Chorus people speak all Spartan-like."
- Kellen, referring to the random Doric dialect that appears in the Chorus
"One a.m. - when the Eastern Classicists are rising from their coffins to go to their computers."
"The athanatoi!"
- Exchange between Dr. Perraud and Mitch. Athanatoi means "the undead".
"I have to go ride another labrador."
- Josephine
"I do wish people would stop writing 'ablative of desperation' on their tests."
- Dr. Perraud
"If somehow she might let go her sullen temper and the pride of her heart... then... I won't make a pesto sauce with my keen friends."
- Mitch, in a confused attempt to translate 'mhtoi to g' emon prothumon philoisin apestw'
"I rode my labrador here. That's going to be a joke forever, isn't it?"
- Josephine
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| | Posted 3/8/2008 3:23 PM - 3 comments
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