Lazy day

It's been grey, wet and cool for most of the day here. I've done very little today, wasting much time playing Might & Magic VI. (I'm trying to see if I can win in less than 18 months game-time, with a team of two sorcerers and two druids. They're doing pretty well so far.) I've also been watching my season-three DVDs of Angel; I've gotten past the - rather weak - midsection of the season, into the much better Holtz/Wesley/Connor tangle. (Odd that they never cleared up the prophecy that Connor would kill Sahjhan; the last we saw of S, he'd been sucked into that urn. It's conceivable that they'll wrap it up in what remains of the series, but after the mess they made of Cordelia's storyline, I'm not getting my hopes up.)

Over on the American Dialect Society list, there's a discussion going on about the medieval (Sissero, Seezer) vs. classical (Keekero, Kaysar) pronunciations of Latin. I remember, back in my second year of college, reading an essay by Dorothy Sayers in which she came out strongly in favor of the medieval pronunciation. As I recall, it was quite funny; I showed it to my Latin teacher, but he was not impressed. (He marshalled arguments involving prosody and the like. I never got the hang of Latin poetry, though, so they fell flat for me. 'Sides, I'm generally biased in Sayers' favor on most issues. Tough old bird, she was.)