Joan's Journal

I'm just not much of a language person (vocabulary as opposed to meter and tone and voice and rhythm and nuance). Learned as much French as I needed for my degree but had no interest in studying advanced French grammar, and chickened out of Renaissance studies when I realized I needed not only Latin but Greek, Italian and more Old and Middle English than I ever wanted to learn, much as I'd love to read Dante untranslated. Chaucer makes me laugh enough that it's worth the struggle.