I just received a book from Interlibrary Loan that I need for my junior qual, because it's the only real in-depth textual study that has been done on the subject I'm writing about.
Its title: Untersuchungen zur Struktur des Witzepigrams bei Lukillios und Martial. Which means, unfortunately, that it is all in German. Why oh why, my parents, did you not make me keep learning German after age 4? All of those Muzzy tapes gone to waste! All I remember is "Ich bin Bob; ich bin der Gärtner" and "Ich bin die Prinzessin Sylvia." Really though this is my own damn fault since I dropped German last term because my schedule was too stressful. I can conjugate basic verbs, talk about school supplies, the weather, and numbers, but that's about it.
If I don't pull an Oedipus and poke out my eyes by the end of the semester, I'll be quite pleased with myself.
Its title: Untersuchungen zur Struktur des Witzepigrams bei Lukillios und Martial. Which means, unfortunately, that it is all in German. Why oh why, my parents, did you not make me keep learning German after age 4? All of those Muzzy tapes gone to waste! All I remember is "Ich bin Bob; ich bin der Gärtner" and "Ich bin die Prinzessin Sylvia." Really though this is my own damn fault since I dropped German last term because my schedule was too stressful. I can conjugate basic verbs, talk about school supplies, the weather, and numbers, but that's about it.
If I don't pull an Oedipus and poke out my eyes by the end of the semester, I'll be quite pleased with myself.
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