And all the scholars know is that it's perfectly preserved

[sovay]

Thank you, stephen_dedman. You do know the answers are much less funny if they're something I might vaguely write . . .

The Pretentious Dissertation Title Mini-Quiz by MagnaMaxima
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Your Field	AnthropologyClassicsEthnic StudiesHistoryLinguisticsEnglish LiteratureGender StudiesReligionPhilosophy
Your Dissertation's Pretentious Title	The Future of the Future:
Your Dissertation's Pretentious Subtitle	Toward a Systematic Understanding of Proto-Indo-European Swear Words

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Likewise: not the Big Book of Gay Kings, which is awesome, but the failure to match the pretentiousness of my actual dissertation (thesis, even - which is pretentious in itself, not to mention that even my discipline was too pretentious for the code).

[sovay]

the pretentiousness of my actual dissertation (thesis, even - which is pretentious in itself, not to mention that even my discipline was too pretentious for the code).

Now I'm curious.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Nah, not interesting, just pretentious (and a real conversation stopper): it's in Medieval French, and the title is The use of religious vocabulary in non-religious contexts in the octosyllabic verse romances of the 12th and 13th centuries.

[sovay]

Nah, not interesting, just pretentious (and a real conversation stopper)

Actually, between the vocabulary out of context and the fact that I know nothing about octosyllabic verse romances, I'd read it . . .