Course Evaluation Time!
Nov. 30th, 2005 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
philenaLet us leave aside the most maddening questions about "the goals of the course." Let us instead talk about the following:
This course provided me with useful skills: Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Agree
My comments in syntax: " 'Useful skills.' Ha ha ha*." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. My comments in Phonetics: " 'Useful skills.' Ha ha ha***." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. My comments in Slavic Linguistics: " 'Useful skills' Ha ha ha**." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. Then the professor responded (Yes yes, he wasn't supposed to be there) "Hey! I once reconstructed the word for horseradish in Polish, knowing only the Russian form and the historical sound changes from Late Common Slavic ancestor to the Polish form." I don't know if he was serious, and I wonder whether that really counts as a useful skill if he was. It's nice that he was able to defend himself, though.
*Insert ironic laugh here.
** Here too.
*** And here.
This course provided me with useful skills: Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Agree
My comments in syntax: " 'Useful skills.' Ha ha ha*." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. My comments in Phonetics: " 'Useful skills.' Ha ha ha***." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. My comments in Slavic Linguistics: " 'Useful skills' Ha ha ha**." Resounding appreciative belly laugh from fellow students. Then the professor responded (Yes yes, he wasn't supposed to be there) "Hey! I once reconstructed the word for horseradish in Polish, knowing only the Russian form and the historical sound changes from Late Common Slavic ancestor to the Polish form." I don't know if he was serious, and I wonder whether that really counts as a useful skill if he was. It's nice that he was able to defend himself, though.
*Insert ironic laugh here.
** Here too.
*** And here.
