You know you've studied too much rhetoric when...
- Your lunchtime conversations involve complex debates about how Plato and Quintilian might respond to online writing courses
- You give advice to your friends beginning with, "Well, you see, Quintilian would say..."
- You get excited when you're having a conversation with someone, and you can actually quote Aristotle verbatim as a response
- You read sections of Cicero and think, "that's what she said!"
- Your MySpace messages consist of all the possible ways that Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, Foucault and David Bartholomae would all say "I disagree with you."
- You have a long, complicated answer when people ask, "what IS rhetoric, anyway?"
- You spend Thursday nights in a bar talking about what kind of beer Aristotle might have preferred
- You find yourself pondering how the world would be different if so many ancient texts hadn't been lost over the years
- You actually find yourself posting a blog like this one...*sigh*
posted by Sarah Eileen @ 11:41 AM
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-- You decide to create a new case for Latin grammar: mutilative
On a side note: I apologize for the extremely unacademic side of this blog post...I just couldn't resist.
"- Your MySpace messages consist of all the possible ways that Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, Foucault and David Bartholomae would all say "I disagree with you.""
oh-my-gosh, that's just too funny. Thanks, Sarah.
-- you get mad at court tv shows because the innocent are good people that don't speak well at all.
-- You read Shakespeare, and think, "That sounds Platonic! And that's from Quintilian! And no wonder -- Shakespeare must have had a humanist education!"
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