Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
10/29: enclitics are sweet
Enclitic accenting rules in ancient Greek are a bit baroque, but I've devised a way to explain them that (I think/hope) makes sense. I introduced the rules to my students yesterday and gave them a worksheet to do for homework. Today we practiced applying the rules, and they had them down. I even got them to say "enclitics are sweet" in unison, though I suspect they did that more out of kindness toward me rather than real conviction about the nature of enclitics. So maybe I should amend my good thing: enclitics--and students--are sweet.
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