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UC Berkeley to Offer Class on Fake Language from ‘Game of Thrones’
Breitbart ^ | April 27, 2017 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 04/27/2017 10:32:27 AM PDT by C19fan

Students at the University of California Berkeley may not be able to hear conservative commentator Ann Coulter speak on campus — however, they can take a school-sanctioned course on a made-up language used in a popular HBO fantasy show. The university, already embroiled in a free speech controversy, reportedly plans to offer a six-week course inspired by the fictional Dothraki and High Valyrian languages used by characters on the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: gameofthrones; languages
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Are there classes for Klingon and/or Romulian?
1 posted on 04/27/2017 10:32:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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Unreal. I just did a (very long) little test to “guess your education level” Now mind you, I graduated high school in the late seventies and took a few college courses—no degree.

I scored at PHD/Grad school level. Today’s youth are being ROBBED by “higher education.”


2 posted on 04/27/2017 10:35:35 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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Peterson told Berkeley News that the Game of Thrones world created by author George R.R. Martin “will serve as a kind of framing device for the course so students can focus on the linguistic details of their creations, not the fictional side.”

Some colleges play up this nonsense as a rudimentary way of learning linguistics. But learning a made up language in no way teaches you about the complex subtleties and long, rich history of the evolution of a real language.

No, what this really teaches you is that college is a very expensive marketing racket. 18 to 22 year old kids like Game of Thrones and will sign up for a class that lets them relive Game of Thrones. Young kids like sex too. Hence, all the college courses of sex and bondage, etc. Colleges aren't teaching kids what they need to know. Colleges are catering to kids' whims and desires and dressing it up as education to be able to charge a fortune for it.

3 posted on 04/27/2017 10:40:38 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Non issue for me. Definitely enraged about the organized anti-free speech protesters. Think Trump should shut the college down as a safety hazard,.

But teaching a fantasy language is okay with me. Mark it under ‘the arts’.,


4 posted on 04/27/2017 10:41:49 AM PDT by Fhios
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Pretty sure that Dothraki consists entirely of hate speech.


5 posted on 04/27/2017 10:42:22 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg

thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Wait, wrong series.

6 posted on 04/27/2017 10:45:50 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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a six-week course inspired by the fictional Dothraki and High Valyrian languages used by characters on the HBO series Game of Thrones

Only if she's teaching it.


7 posted on 04/27/2017 10:47:48 AM PDT by Drew68
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"Are there classes for Klingon and/or Romulan?"


8 posted on 04/27/2017 10:50:57 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

As Mike Rowe stated during his speech to the House Committee on Education and The Workforce back in February,

“...the outstanding student-loan debt is 1.3 trillion dollars. Yet even now, we continue to lend money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back, educating them for jobs that no longer exist – while ignoring careers that do.”


9 posted on 04/27/2017 10:54:27 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (I drink and I know things. It's what I do. - Tyrion Lannister)
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...what this really teaches you is that college is a very expensive marketing racket.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

10 posted on 04/27/2017 10:56:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”

Wait, wrong universe...


11 posted on 04/27/2017 10:58:15 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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Can the class credits be applied toward a bachelor’s degree in Game of Thrones?


12 posted on 04/27/2017 11:13:14 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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There were in the past.
I thought the ones offering sign language were actually smart and inclusive.
Programming languages in place of a foreign language are probably of more use than someone learning French or German these days.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 12:05:09 PM PDT by tbw2
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14 posted on 04/27/2017 12:13:21 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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Valyrian is my mother tongue
15 posted on 04/27/2017 1:15:01 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: al baby; Baron 2A; BobinIL; BroJoeK; cardinal4; carolinablonde; cld51860; ClearCase_guy; ...
Send FReepmail if you want on/off GOT Ping List
GOT Ping List to be maintained only so long as the TV series runs
No book or TV series spoilers, please
Violators to be removed from the list
Game of Thrones WIKI
GOT Who’s Who, up to S06E10
GOT Hi-Rez Speculative Map
The List of Ping Lists

16 posted on 04/27/2017 6:50:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Colleges have been teaching Tolkien’s Elvish language for years. Of course, Tolkien was a linguist whose fake language was logically structured. Martin is just a leftist crank.


17 posted on 04/27/2017 8:02:31 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Pretty sure that Dothraki consists entirely of hate speech.

ROTFLMAO

18 posted on 04/27/2017 8:50:54 PM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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LOL!

This should be extremely useful on the job market. These kids are racking up thousands of dollars in loans...or their parents are...for interesting, but pointless classes.

I am sure they can learn this stuff for for free on the Internet. But college credit for this?...


19 posted on 04/27/2017 9:18:37 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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If they are not teaching Klingon and Romulan, may I suggest a good old-fashioned riot, complete with masks and broken windows! after all, how racist, speciest (sp?) can they be?

Not to mention ageist, since Star Trek was made a long time ago!

Language fascists! LOL!,,

(j/k, not at all advocating violence. It has just become so absurd.).


20 posted on 04/27/2017 9:28:56 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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