<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=209165.msg10357606#msg10357606">Quote from: Bibliophilia on 08-08-2014, 03:27:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">-snickers.-  Awesome.  I'm an English major with plans to either become a librarian or an English professor.  I <em>love</em> well-taught history classes.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I came up through a BA in English Lit, so I know that sometimes understanding the historical context of the classics can REALLY change how students view them. And I still love, love, love to read. Just about anything. Almost.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=209165.msg10357664#msg10357664">Quote from: Chulanowa on 08-08-2014, 03:50:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">...And I'm just an ill-trained history geek who reads too much. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I don't understand? ...it sounds like English until you used the unit phrase "too much" after the verb "reads." I'm not sure that verb can take that as a predicate... ;D<br/><br/>How can you be an "ill-trained" history geek? :) I might go with 'self-taught'?<br/><br/>Then again, considering what diverse groups teach as "recent history," I suppose it's possible to be quite "ill-taught" in some regards... ;)<br/><br/><br/>Also, yay! There was a post! A whole post! In the shipboard group. Other than my own, I mean. I'm going to wait a day or two to respond just in case any of the others root vegetable.