A New Harry/Ron Archive

When I started in Harry Potter, I searched all over for Harry/Ron stories. Snape was everywhere -there was an entire Snapeslash fleet- Harry/Draco was easy to find. But amazingly the one Harry/Ron archive hadn't been updated in years.

No one collected Harry/Ron stories. Oh, you could find them here and there on PSA, buried in the archives of Fiction Alley... but a real Harry/Ron archive?

Despondent, I wrote my own Harry/Ron stories. Then turned to the dark side: Harry/Snape.

Calliope, Jen, and Tarie have changed all that.

Welcome to the Best Mate Archive, feeding your Harry/Ron addiction since... well, now.


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The Languages of Dr. Daniel Jackson

melpemone and I were chit-chatting about Daniel Jackson and language, and I thought I'd better write this while linguistics is still fresh in my mind.

The Languages of Dr. Daniel Jackson

For Daniel to have the range of skills he's displayed in interacting with all these ancient races across the galaxy, he will have studied all the main types of language morphologies (a morphology is the way a language, well, morphs or grows. Some grow by sticking words together free+way=freeway, others by adding endings this-um, that-am, etc.). Since he understood 23 languages (as mentioned in 1969), it's very likely language has been a lifelong hobby. People who only learn languages in school for doctorates learn maybe 3-5, and only those relevant to their field. Daniel's knowledge is far-ranging and has little to do with his specialty of Ancient Egypt.

Early Childhood Exposure

( I believe Daniel was exposed to three radically different language systems before the age of 8, when the human mind is hard-wired to pick up language quickly. )

I hope you found this interesting and helpful in writing Daniel. No, I am not remotely obsessed with Daniel Jackson. Why do you ask?



ETA: Corrections, additions, guesses at other possible languages, up to and including no way Daniel was a D&D geek, he was really a [punk/goth/stoner/other]! are all welcome. :D