Ruby Granger #47 Self Learning at the University of Roobs, Manor campus

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Griftwood

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New thread as she has just posted a new video all about commonplacing and I predict we will all have plenty to say about that! 😂

Title credit goes to @thegossboss92 and @Larancia, brace yourselves because this is definitely going to be the theme for the upcoming year.

To very briefly recap, lil miss Rootabaga got her AWKSFUD Masters with a distinction and we are once again settling in to a gap yah of rotting in our childhood bedroom and salf lahrning, with occasional day trips to dark macadamia loibries and a very part-time library job. Also she’s made a Skillshare course on commonplacing and I personally volunteer as tribute as my subscription doesn’t expire for another 6 weeks yet.

New video:
 
Apparently if you go to page 31 in her commonplace books, you'll find quotes on/about friendship.

"Blakeney appearing in my life due to chance."

Hmm, can someone well-read enlighten me about where this quote is from? Or should we collect some coins to get protection for Blakeney?
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Also, her voice is so deep and different nowadays, since she stopped imitating 1st year Hermoine. I wonder what her family thought, knowing that she was using whole another voice and accents in videos.
 
More crap about a commonplace book? Hasn't she already exhausted this subject? So, basically this video is an ad for Skillshare. Not interested. According to her description, Pinterest would also fall under the category of "commonplacing". And what is with the one eyed squint, tilted head and better-than-thou attitude when she starts telling us she doesn't keep an index (and then shows her index)? Not to mention the little girl vibes alongside the reddish brown lipstick which looks more like pasta sauce all over her face.

She mentions using when in a lecture or having a conversation with someone. Woman. You are not in school, you are not attending lectures anymore. Those days are OVER for you. She is so caught up in being a student for the rest of her life, even if it means self-teaching, dressing up as a child when you are an adult, needing her family and younger sister to drive her everywhere. So twisted. Get her a straight coat, please.

The claw is back.

She is going to have a major meltdown when she hits 30.
 
I had a nice rant to a friend the other day. I hope you'll excuse me for pasting it here (anonymized a couple things):
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I'm a scholar of (xyz) and have never read or heard of "commonplacing" as a verb. Does it even exist? The origin of "commonplace" as an adjective or noun comes from the Latin translation of a Greek phrase (τόπος κοινός, "general theme, general topos").

So let me tell you this: commonplace books were pretty popular in the Middle Ages, all the way back to antiquity. It's no wonder they were used in the Renaissance and modern period as well. Why is this some life-changing thing for Ruby? because it allows her to write down other people's pithy sayings and pretend that by doing so, she is participating in some great scholarly act.

but these are just books of quotable quotes. other people's words on some topic. Big deal. Chicken Soup for the Bibliophile Who Can't Be Bothered to Read.

What might be interesting about a commonplace collection: what is included, what isn't. That's about it. Sometimes falsely attributed quotes get in. Sometimes sensitive quotes are left out.

Aside from that, no scholar really cares about them or wants to deal with them now. They are absolutely less popular than (xxx and yyy, texts I like), and no one even want to touch those! Nothing is more boring and repetitive than this topic. Most of them haven't even been edited, because who wants to do something so thankless when there are myriad other things to edit?

Throughout history, students, rhetoricians, lawyers, and theologians may have found commonplace books useful, because the sayings could be worked into speeches or sermons. But gosh this reminds me of when I was 9yo and wanted to write down every interesting sentence or word or phrase I liked.
Obviously I abandoned that.

I also think she is just going through some "hard word lists" to do her dumb word series. Her inability to pronounce the words or give a correct etymology is making me so angry I can barely watch them.
 
Griftwood said:
Surely ”compile” isn’t a straight-up synonym for ”pile up” in the intransitive form? She claims she tries to do 5 or 10 minutes of commonplacing every evening, because ”otherwise it just compiles” 😬 Or is my ESL showing 😂
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You're not wrong. The way she's used it, she's saying "the list of information you didn't compile will eventually get bored of your procrastination, somehow gain sentience and then start assembling things together itself".

Add it to the list of words Ruby doesn't understand or know how to use - I rackomand kyeeping ayy saporate commonplace bock josst fwore this parpose.

She also declares that commonplacing can help you "synthesize thinking".

It'll never stop being funny that every single week she reveals a new fairly common word that she doesn't understand, can't spell, and/or confidently misuses.
 
Her common placing video is an unstructured mess. She talks for almost 15 minutes but says so little/repeats herself so much.

Also take a shot everytime she says “commonplace/common placing” and you would have done 9 in the first minute of the video alone 😭
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Ok, I’m sad… so I counted whist watching and she says it 55 times in the video 😅 and that’s with a several minute add sandwiched in there.

My main takeaway from this video is that she has 100% searched these themes on Goodreads and copied out popular quotes. The fact she doesn’t want to write in her book when she’s in lectures/out and about, etc. for fear of her book “not being neat”… shows she doesn’t actually do this method properly.

Also why does Little Miss VEEEGAUN have a page of quotes about vegetarianism? 😂
 
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I'd only ever heard about commonplace books in Sherlock Holmes before Ruby started talking about them. He was collecting interesting info about people and stuff that might be useful for a case at some point. It makes sense for a detective in the 1800s to keep an archive like that. Not sure why it can't ever just be a notebook with Ruby, it needs to be special and quirky.

Also is it weird that the pigtails actually make her look older? Something about her hair worn down is giving feral child, this looks quite nice.
 
secretalphabets said:
I'd only ever heard about commonplace books in Sherlock Holmes before Ruby started talking about them. He was collecting interesting info about people and stuff that might be useful for a case at some point. It makes sense for a detective in the 1800s to keep an archive like that. Not sure why it can't ever just be a notebook with Ruby, it needs to be special and quirky.

Also is it weird that the pigtails actually make her look older? Something about her hair worn down is giving feral child, this looks quite nice.
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It’s because one day, when she’s a successful author, Ruby‘s memoirs will be POBLISHED and so they all have to be ASSTHETYK.
 
threeSMEGfridges said:
it’s literally a notebook with all your random crap and notes and lists in
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For her who has 10000 different notebooks each one for a peculiar theme it surely sounds so innovative!
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Rumblemumble said:
Apparently if you go to page 31 in her commonplace books, you'll find quotes on/about friendship.

"Blakeney appearing in my life due to chance."

Hmm, can someone well-read enlighten me about where this quote is from? Or should we collect some coins to get protection for Blakeney?
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Also, her voice is so deep and different nowadays, since she stopped imitating 1st year Hermoine. I wonder what her family thought, knowing that she was using whole another voice and accents in videos.
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That bunch of weirdos probably knows about it. All of them are in it since the start. I wouldn't bet it but I'm kinda sure that at some point they even encouraged her to do it when they saw it has some success.
 
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