Aorist passive tenses and Michael Crichton
Oct. 6th, 2008 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishI never thought that I would find something about a foreign language that was more baffling than English, but the logic behind the morphology of the aorist tenses in Greek is just bewildering. I understand them, I can translate them, I can even write them: but understanding the mindset which created them may very well cost me my brain.
In other news, I finished Michael Crichton's "Airframe" this afternoon to discover that, as usual, I find myself refreshed and informed about an interesting subject, while enjoying an emotionally compelling narrative.
Why can this man not write all my text books? I would pay good money to see him turn my Statistics text into a murder mystery.
There's an extended passage of the novel that is so relaxing (deliberately so, I imagine), that I am heartily tempted to write it out here for your delectation. But as it runs to several short pages and I am on a library terminal procrastinating while I should be doing work, that will have to wait.
In other news, I finished Michael Crichton's "Airframe" this afternoon to discover that, as usual, I find myself refreshed and informed about an interesting subject, while enjoying an emotionally compelling narrative.
Why can this man not write all my text books? I would pay good money to see him turn my Statistics text into a murder mystery.
There's an extended passage of the novel that is so relaxing (deliberately so, I imagine), that I am heartily tempted to write it out here for your delectation. But as it runs to several short pages and I am on a library terminal procrastinating while I should be doing work, that will have to wait.
