Linguistically Speaking

hey! isch ja coool, fühl mi grad es paar jahr jünger ;-). bin im moment am tristam shandy läse und finds meeega lustig!! what have you been up to?
versueche im moment e lösig z finde zum das woni lise au würklich chöne z memoriere - luege amigs de titel vome buech a woni voreme monet gläse han und weiss scho nüme um wases genau gat. machsch du dir summaries? ha das bin es paarne gmacht (oder vom internet abeglade) aber git halt mega viel arbet!
übrigens: de prof heusser hät mini minima-liste-liste abgsägnet! ;-

(sorry for just switching to english, but I feel more like writing in english ;-) )

I loved Tristram Shandy, too - though it's been years since I read it...
I don't really make summaries, but notes on what I found interesting about the books, things I found important etc - and if it's long and complicated I get summaries online/in books.

All my lists have been approved, too - no correction whatsoever! That means I don't have any excuses not to start reading now...
[Am currently reading Trudgill's intro to sociolinguistics for the general Engl-ling reading list - and enjoying it a lot (I was a bit ashamed to put it on the list, as it's beginner's stuff really, but I really wanted to read (and buy) it - and it's totally worth it). I'll maybe post about it when I've finished]

yeah, i was a bit surprised about that too, especially with prof fischer (as pidgin and creole languages is a bit 'boarderline' with regard to diachrone linguistics).
btw, could you maybe send me your english lit list? just out of curiosity. maybe you could also post it here?
had an idea a few days ago - if we have our english lit exams at approximately the same time (which i hope), we could just sit in a coffee shop together for a few days and bring all of the books/important aspects of them back to mind. what do you think?

yeah, that would be great! and I think our exams are likely to be around the same time, as we're examined by the same person - prof heusser had the list for the exams he's having now outside his office door, and they were all taking place within the same few days.
i'll email you my list, as I haven't figured out yet how/if it's possible to post entire files here...
what century is your schwerpunkt for english lit? I haven't decided yet - 19th or 20th. 19th would make sense because my topic-books are on there, too... but then, he probably won't ask anything about these because they've already been treated in the 3tägige.

btw: ha ersch jetz grad d minima-liste-liste gseh/tschegget :-)

hey! i'm gonna choose the 20th century, as i'm not too fond of long novels ;-). in terms of 'distribution' among you and me, both choices would have advantages and disadvantages - if we both choose the 20th century, we could really focus on it together; if you choose the 19th century, we could learn more from each other (as I guess we are gonna read a bit (more) of secondary literature on our 'Schwerpunkte'. BTW: if Prof. Heusser's ok with it, 19th century is not such a bad idea - saves you some learning! Question is whether you're really that into it...