Day 21 - Tell us about your favorite professor.
My all time favourite professor is my Latin teacher from when I took Latin. It was only the beginner courses I took but those were some fun times. The reason why I like him so much is for his humour. A lot of it has to do with either pop culture or old tv shows. Things that I remember from his lessons:
The imperfect tense of verbs: Remember B.A. is imperfect for his fear of flying. B.A. is a character from The A-Team (played by Mr. T.) and the character had a fear of flying (maybe heights too). If I wanted to say "I was praising" in Latin, that would be laudabam. Breaking the word down: lauda-ba-m where ba is an infix putting the verb in the imperfect.
the enclitic -que: fish chipsque (this coming from a vegan, and he's quite vocal about veganism).
He sometimes would tell stories too like the one about the Audi company name I mentioned here and maybe some anecdotal stuff too.
He also had an interesting accent. His family name is of Serbian origin (his first name, Milo, is short for Milorad to boot) but he identifies as German and even speaks it too. He did some schooling in England before coming to Canada. Okay he does have a German accent but he's not all Hans Gruber with it or Schwarzenegger with it.
Anyways something occurred to me today. Not sure sure if it's the weather or how I see people but something to watch out about the student older than average. Not all undergrads are well, young looking in appearance. I apparently mistook some who could easily be a faculty member or a grad student and not know that the person was a full time undergrad. fml? or it could've been anyone's mistake.
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