Tongues and their Lore - Taking New Students

[Tsu Sengai]

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Welcome to my classroom. I teach 'Tongues and Their Lore', a subject which is perfect for those of you with sharp wit, quick minds, and deeper thinking. I will be acepting a maximum of ten students into this class - you will need to be able to accept help and corections, happy to discuss any criticism I might make, and be prepared to do some actual work.

Students should have the following endowments if they wish to join my class;
Ω The will to try to post in one tense, rather than switching from past, to present, to future.
Ω The will to try to spell and use correct grammar.
Ω The ability to restrain one's speech - no flaming, no fighting, and no randiness will be tolerated in this class.
Ω The ability to meet deadlines.
Ω The ability to follow my rules to the letter, any confusion may be questoned in PM.

Students do not have to have perfect language and roleplay skills, but they have to be willing to learn them.

To join my class, please send me an application, I would like to recieve the following information - what, if anything, interests you about language, if you can spot the common spelling mistakes I have purposfully made in this welcome post (please be honest, I do not require all, just list any you spot without the aid of a spell-checker), a testament that you are willing to learn the skills and knowledge I am taking time to endow you with, and a short biography and example post. (The bio will be used for the register, and for my own personal records.) A bonus brownie point will be added by your name if you can tell me the name of the icon I have used as a bullet-point, along with which language it comes from and how to pronounce it phonetically - ie: Psi, is pronounced similarly to the ps found in lips.

When I have five students, I shall begin my first class. Do not post your bio in this thread - I will delete it. If you want others to know what you look like, mix this in with your posts. Do not post things that a casual observer could not know, such as 'His parents had beaten him badly when he was born and he had been found in the woods as a baby and brought up by wild dogs' - no-one could know this from your apperance. You can hint at these things however, for instance 'He had a scar on his face and several on his arms, and a flinching, wild spark in his eye reminiscent of a beaten dog'.

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[Tsu Sengai]

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The classroom was obviously a medium room before the bookshelves were added - these large, dark wooden shelves cram every inch of wall-space and are heavy with books, scrolls, stacks of paper and odd ornaments and educational tools. The floor is covered with a thick maroon carpet with a golden border, in each corner of which is a floral pattern. Upon this soft carpet sit ten or more puffy leather chairs, each with a small wooden desk somehow attached to the left arm - some are folded down so they appear like a small desk, whilst others have been lifted and slotted down at the side so they are out of the way. These are all facing a long, cluttered desk, polished to such a degree it reflects the room in front of it.

Behind the desk is a high-backed chair, upholstered in maroon with fading golden edging. The desk is cluttered, but shows signs of having recently been neatened slightly - the stacks of papers have all gone, and the few books left on the table are neatly stacked. There's a single coffee mug left on the table, but it now sits on a coaster, and the coffee rings have been wiped off the desk surface. Behind the desk there is a blackboard, and closer to the door, there is a cork-covered notice board on which a few random post-its have been pinned - they flutter in the draft when the door is opened like so many butterflies. These two items are the only things taking up wall space that aren't big old bookshelves, or the lonely window in the eastern wall with its oaken shutters tight closed.

Anyone entering the room does so through a door in the western wall, situated right in the corner of the north wall, that of the desk, notice board, and blackboard, and the door occasionally bumps against the bookshelves behind it on the western wall. The entrant then has to move through a small space between the bookshelves behind the door and the desk-corner, to reach the middle of the room and claim a puffy chair.
Saved for future reference: In this chair sits a woman, snoring gently, wearing a baggy green jumper and a pair of brown trousers. Her muddy boots are stuck out under the desk and she is slumped so far down in the chair that her head is barely visible above the stacks of books and papers, and the odd coffee-mug, that rest on her desk.

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[Tsu Sengai]

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Currently, the notice board has the following notes pinned to it;

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Welcome to Tongues and their Lore, please feel free to request entrance into this class.

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All students are reminded not to fight or flirt in this classroom.

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Bring your own stationary.

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Must remember to reorganise desk.

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[Tsu Sengai]

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The blackboard currently has the following written on it in a curling, slightly messy script;

Professor Phemie Akantha Ophelie - 'Tongues and their Lore'

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[Tsu Sengai]

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The following students are on the register for this class;

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[Tsu Sengai]

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The most recent house points I have awarded went to;

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[Tsu Sengai]

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The most recent house points I have deducted were from;

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