How cheery:
208.60.211.93 - - [16/Dec/2002:22:52:54 -0500] "GET /blog/archives/2002/10/27/itll_all_end_in_tears_i_know_it.html HTTP/1.1" 200 3203 "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=how+will+it+all+end+%3F" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)"
(For those of you who don’t read Apache logs, someone’s searching on Yahoo! for the phrase how will it all end ?. I kind of wish the post he found was a little funnier….)
One message David [Salo] got the other day from a high school student said that hearing the languages in [The Fellowship of the Ring] spurred an interest in linguistics, and could David recommend any colleges with good linguistics programs?
Now that is just cool. Wizard cool, if I may say so. The kid may well change his mind–but I doubt he’ll ever regret his interest.
Dorothea Salo, Influence
That kid reminds me of… well, me, although I was more taken by Jabberwocky. (Friends may find this heretical, but I only read The Lord of the Rings in university.) Perhaps because both parents are language teachers (between them they speak French, German, Spanish, and Slovak), or perhaps just because I have a predilection towards the trivial and the transmundane, I enjoy discovering versions of familiar works–music, poetry, books, etc.–in different languages, even those I don’t understand.
Which is why I was glad today to find a version of Jabberwocky that I’d never seen: a translation into French by Frank L. Warrin. (The page also includes Robert Scott’s German version, which I’ve loved for years: Es brillig war. Die schlicten Toven / Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben….
) I’d love to hear Stephanie’s rendition of either… bien sûr avec son accent vaudois.
What is M-Dot? A producer of hot formed titanium parts and aircraft tailpipes? The state of Michigan’s Department of Transportation? Minnesota’s? An artist who uses Adobe Illustrator? The international symbol for the Ironman Triathlon (which can be worn as a badge of honor only by those who complete one of these races)?
None of the above (although the last is close). Ahem. The last one is exactly it. Silly me. Croptop has started a weblog.
(Yes, I’m aware that this is a lot longer announcement than the one for Mike’s, but he’s also posted two-thirds as many entries as Mike in only four days.)