Twitter-witter!

[tree_and_leaf]

• 14:59 I had no idea that S. Thomas More had written so much. 'The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer' cd be snappier as titles go. #
• 15:01 Mind you, "The Answer to a Poisoned Book" is pretty good, although it does somehow sound a bit like a fanfic, possibly featuring Voldemort. #
• 15:22 @angevin2 That's revolting. Also, I had no idea that mimolette was made with cheese mites. I may never eat cheese w/o googling again. #
• 15:39 Golly, I hate trying to sort out what the correct terminology for schools of German legal thought is (Germanists? Germanicists?) #
• 16:01 We've just had yet another false fire alarm, I wish the first years were capable of using toasters without evacuating college. #
• 16:46 Off to a talk on vernacular philosophy and the Eucharist in Middle English (am interested to see what the connection is!) #
• 20:39 So it was about Lollards, and their parodying of scholastic terms. I am in grete perplexite what accident in kinde is this sacrament. #
• 20:52 I am also inordinately amused by the way Augustine is called Austen in ME. I keep imagining Pride and Prejudice with Moar Gnostics and sex. #

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[wuglet.livejournal.com]

@false fire alarm: About the only thing in Oxford I don't miss...

@Augustine/Austen: Now that is a mental picture I'll have difficulties to forget. Thanks for the laugh, really needed one. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

Glad to oblige :)

[tree_and_leaf]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young gentleman in possession of a soul must be in want of divine grace.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of the complete works of Jane Austen must be in want of a life.

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm sure Tilney would beg to differ!

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

I've heard about Twitter, but never seen it in action before. That's rather fun. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter? The wars get everywhere....

[tree_and_leaf]

There's no escaped from the shipwars, is there?

It's quite fun, though, at least in conjunction with LJ - it has a sort of mental floss effect on silly little things that don't merit a post in itself, though I don't know how long the fascination will last.

It makes liveblogging telly easier, though, to the point that I might actually try it.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure how Twitter works; and given that I have just launched something on Blogspot (authentick eighteenth-century masthead coming soon) I'm not altogether sure that I should learn...

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm trying to cut down on the number of short, ill defined posts I make, by - er, making short, ill-defined posts in another forum.

It's a two-stage thing, actually - twitter works like the status bar on facebook, then 'loud twitter' collates them over a 24 hour period and dumps them on your blog.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I see... I think this would only encourage me to spread yet more incoherent thought on the internet, but I might use the SMS facility when away from a computer...

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

correct terminology for schools of German legal thought

Are you trying to remember the word Jura? That's what sprang to mind, but on reflection I'm not at all sure that's what you're talking about.
[Especially being no Germanicist, and a Germanist only by violent stretching of the definition.]

[tree_and_leaf]

Nah, it's the difference between Germanisten and Romanisten in history of law (specifically the difference between students of the Codex Justinian and those trying to reconstruct Germanic tribal law.