New Thinking: Beowulf
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How Does the Programming Language of a Video Game Work?
Roxanne: Can you imagine how Roxanne's insights into how that sort of nitty gritty grammar and language of Beowulf works might translate into what you're doing, translate into a game? Does it make a difference if one character, for example, sort of disappears from a scene? Well, I can imagine how it would. And I think we in various ways did focus on that, on the text that in that level of granularity, sometimes literally,. It's a different kind of example. But for instance, the Anglo-Saxon students at UCL became interested in another ambiguous word, Agdaka, which is used of Grendel's mother and Grend
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