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Ant + Arctica = AntarcticaYou believe me now? I thought so.
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:30 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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I once had a Korean student who had given herself the strange Western-ish name "Artica." Years have passed since then; she's no doubt an "Aunt Artica" to someone now.
I "c," said the blind man . . . or are we talking art?
Jeffery Hodges
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I asked her about that: why "Ar-tica" and not "Arc-tica"? I no longer recall her answer. I suspect that, as with many Koreans who give themselves Konglishy names, there was no deep reason behind her denomination aside from "It sounded cool, so I went with it."
Perhaps she thought of it as "Art-ica"?
Jeffery Hodges
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