I just dreamed that I was at my high school, except apparently it was really Hogwarts because I was putting up signs in Latin telling Umbridge to leave. (In my dream, Umbridge had cut Latin from the curriculum.)
"Really, Svetlana dear, even you must admit that these silly Latin classes waste time our students could put to other use to become better subjects of the Protectorate. It is not right, reasonable, nor rational to deny them that opportunity. And after all, if they do ever need to read something in Latin that's what translation spells are for!"
Hypothetical Latin teacher named for my own first Latin teacher. :-) And my apologies to Umbridge's player--I don't think I got the tone *quite* right, but I had fun trying!
I'm imagining translation spells as their equivalent of Google Translate--useful, but *so* not appropriate for scholarly needs. Not that Umbridge would ever recognize that.
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Date: 2013-04-08 02:15 am (UTC)Totally.
:)
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Date: 2013-04-08 03:59 am (UTC)Hypothetical Latin teacher named for my own first Latin teacher. :-) And my apologies to Umbridge's player--I don't think I got the tone *quite* right, but I had fun trying!
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Date: 2013-04-08 10:00 am (UTC)and I'm sure Umbridge'd also insist that 'Sizzie dear' help her (read do it all) with finding appropriate translation spells for classroom use.
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Date: 2013-04-08 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-08 05:35 pm (UTC)No Latin = No* Spells
How convenient.
Surprised she hasn't thought of that!
*ok, few spells