I finished student teaching, but as schools open up I haven't been able to grab a job. Furthermore, my substitute position isn't working out as hoped as people are grabbing jobs faster than I can. Is there still hope for a full time position, as I've seen others say? Is there anyone here that got hired after the school year started?
Of all the unanswered questions and mysteries created by the writers throwing underdeveloped plot points at a wall and not thinking them through, the biggest has to be the wolf.
In 1x01, a wolf prevents Emma from leaving Storybrooke. In 1x07 we learn the wolf is actually Graham's companion, leading Graham and Emma to the vault of hearts. It then disappears... until 4x19, when it stops Emma from heading back to Storybrooke, right at the place where Lily is. Emma even comments on it, recalling the wolf from the Pilot. However there is one problem- this wolf is a different color than the S1 wolf, suggesting it's a different wolf.
Now the show never gives us answers as to what the wolves are, but my theory is that they are heralds of fate. Lily and Emma's fates were intertwined by the spell (as said by Merlin in S4) so the wolf guided Emma to Lily. Emma's destiny to break the curse was helped along by the wolf in S1. Fate and destiny is said to be a real thing to the point where several characters believe it, so it's as good a theory as any.
What are yall's theories on the wolf/wolves?
Basically, my conlang split from PIE at the same time as Tocharian, thus preserving the thematic-athematic distinction. It then migrated to South India where it stayed and became heavily influenced by Dravidian languages:
Thematic endings vanished in favor of athematic due to my conlang borrowing the idea of all words ending in vowels from Telugu. The aspect markers initially emerged from the participle, before being replaced by the Dravidian method of using auxiliaries which overtime fossilized as aspect markers. The old aspect markers became tense markers. The person markers were inherited from the present athematic form of the copula, which vanished overtime again thanks to Dravidian influence (whose languages tend to switch between including the copula and zero copula in spoken speech). By this point, the old PIE conjugation system had completely collapsed.
My case markers would be directly inherited from PIE as my conlang would lose gender distinctions, and this was easier to do. But is my verbal morphology evolution realistic? Keep in mind my proto lang split early on, and thus stayed isolated and was already developing these features even as the Indo Aryans arrived (and is surrounded by Dravidian languages on all sides so there was limited contact with them).
Basically, my conlang split from PIE at the same time as Tocharian, thus preserving the thematic-athematic distinction. It then migrated to South India where it stayed and became heavily influenced by Dravidian languages:
Thematic endings vanished in favor of athematic due to my conlang borrowing the idea of all words ending in vowels from Telugu. The aspect markers initially emerged from the participle, before being replaced by the Dravidian method of using auxiliaries which overtime fossilized as aspect markers. The old aspect markers became tense markers. The person markers were inherited from the present athematic form of the copula, which vanished overtime again thanks to Dravidian influence (whose languages tend to switch between including the copula and zero copula in spoken speech). By this point, the old PIE conjugation system had completely collapsed.
My case markers would be directly inherited from PIE as my conlang would lose gender distinctions, and this was easier to do. But is my verbal morphology evolution realistic? Are there any examples of a language going from fusional to agglutinative. Keep in mind my proto lang split early on, and thus stayed isolated and was already developing these features even as the Indo Aryans arrived (and is surrounded by Dravidian languages on all sides so there was limited contact with them).
Basically, my conlang split from PIE at the same time as Tocharian, thus preserving the thematic-athematic distinction. It then migrated to South India where it stayed and became heavily influenced by Dravidian languages:
Thematic endings vanished in favor of athematic due to my conlang borrowing the idea of all words ending in vowels from Telugu. The aspect markers initially emerged from the participle, before being replaced by the Dravidian method of using auxiliaries which overtime fossilized as aspect markers. The old aspect markers became tense markers. The person markers were inherited from the present athematic form of the copula, which vanished overtime again thanks to Dravidian influence (whose languages tend to switch between including the copula and zero copula in spoken speech). By this point, the old PIE conjugation system had completely collapsed.
My case markers would be directly inherited from PIE as my conlang would lose gender distinctions, and this was easier to do. But is my verbal morphology evolution realistic? Are there any examples of a language going from fusional to agglutinative. Keep in mind my proto lang split early on, and thus stayed isolated and was already developing these features even as the Indo Aryans arrived (and is surrounded by Dravidian languages on all sides so there was limited contact with them).
Thought we could use a break from the normal discourse, and I came up with a fun activity: turn what we know of the original outline into an actual story, akin to Wikipedia plot summaries. For example, here's how I think it would've gone:
Book 1: Would've spanned from AGOT prologue to just after the Red Wedding. Tyrion would've marched the Lannister armies north and taken Winterfell, while Catelyn, Bran and Arya have been captured by Mance Rayder beyond the wall. Jaime poisons his entire family, including Sansa and her child with Joffrey, and frames Tyrion (who would've actually killed Joffrey) and takes the throne by virtue of being the winner.
Book 2: Tyrion rallies the North to him. Before Jaime marches against him, Dany invades and deals with Westerosi politics. Catelyn is killed by the Others and ressurected (I believe Stoneheart was a reworking of the original Catelyn killed by the Others plotline) and she is mercy killed by Arya while Bran learns about his powers. The Starks return to the North (Mance would die somewhere somewhen) and Bran is seated in Winterfell by Tyrion, and Bran hates Jon for not aiding the Starks. Jaime is killed by Dany, who takes the Iron Throne as the Others break through the Wall.
Book 3: Given we have no idea of how the story ends, this is probably the most bare. I only have that Tyrion exploits Bran's hatred for Jon (referenced in the outline) to try to woo Arya in the infamous love triangle.
What are your ideas on how the story could've turned out.