The poem Beowulf is rich in descriptive metaphor and simile. Modern day English always strikes me as tawdry by comparison.
Wade.
It is SPEECH dammit, not SPEACH
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- (altmann)
- (40)
- April 15, 2002, 04:05:22 PM EDT
would you like frys with yer whine :)
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- (boxley)
- April 15, 2002, 04:11:39 PM EDT
You're fighting a "loosing" battle!!!
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- (ChrisR)
- (2)
- April 15, 2002, 04:26:13 PM EDT
kneadnt start a pun war
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- (boxley)
- April 15, 2002, 04:28:28 PM EDT
Get it "rite". "Your" fighting a "loosing" battle!
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- (jbrabeck)
- April 24, 2002, 01:25:48 PM EDT
Holy fucking shit, man, you think *that* is bad???
- (CRConrad)
- (25)
- April 15, 2002, 04:41:44 PM EDT
semi litterate, half trained cat :)
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- (boxley)
- (3)
- April 15, 2002, 04:44:39 PM EDT
'Xackly my point!
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- April 15, 2002, 05:01:50 PM EDT
Nit.
- (static)
- April 15, 2002, 11:14:00 PM EDT
"litt\ufffdrature" IIRC (!) ____ Oops: should be under CRC's
-NT
- (Ashton)
- April 24, 2002, 04:21:31 PM EDT
Re: Holy fucking shit, man, you think *that* is bad???
- (pwhysall)
- (8)
- April 15, 2002, 04:58:18 PM EDT
Yeah, but the Rat-Man already covered that, above.
- (CRConrad)
- (7)
- April 15, 2002, 05:04:17 PM EDT
I fink pronunciation gets on my goat more
- (Meerkat)
- (6)
- April 15, 2002, 11:06:44 PM EDT
Its a sports thing, of course...
- (jb4)
- (1)
- April 24, 2002, 01:52:08 PM EDT
Knit be-eng piccoloed hear....
- (folkert)
- April 26, 2002, 08:57:24 PM EDT
Bushed!
- (Arkadiy)
- (3)
- May 31, 2002, 02:51:31 PM EDT
Eisenhower did it too, though. No indicator re
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- May 31, 2002, 10:47:55 PM EDT
It's NUK-UH-LEHR
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- (mmoffitt)
- May 31, 2002, 10:57:37 PM EDT
Umm? Didn't Carter have the same mispronounciation?
- (Silverlock)
- June 1, 2002, 02:29:32 AM EDT
Dessert instead of desert...
- (ben_tilly)
- (11)
- April 16, 2002, 07:15:08 AM EDT
Here's an obsure one.
- (static)
- (8)
- April 16, 2002, 07:35:32 AM EDT
About "you" versus "thee"
- (ben_tilly)
- (7)
- April 16, 2002, 07:55:19 AM EDT
Perhaps.
- (static)
- (6)
- April 16, 2002, 09:52:13 PM EDT
No 'perhaps' about it - here's a third "source":
- (CRConrad)
- (5)
- April 17, 2002, 02:03:48 PM EDT
I meant "perhaps he already told us".
- (static)
- (4)
- April 17, 2002, 10:49:40 PM EDT
Nice collecto-mania... :-) "Descriptive phrases"?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (3)
- April 18, 2002, 09:35:52 AM EDT
Personally.. I miss pre-Norman 'schweinehund' (sp?)
-NT
- (Ashton)
- April 18, 2002, 11:34:57 PM EDT
Descriptive Phrases.
- (static)
- (1)
- April 19, 2002, 12:03:38 AM EDT
A, I C... "Kennings", as they're called in Old Norse.
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- April 19, 2002, 12:28:32 AM EDT
& vice versa, of course - who wants a sand cake for pudding?
- (CRConrad)
- April 16, 2002, 03:52:38 PM EDT
Why do you think I said "It is..." ? :)
-NT
- (altmann)
- April 16, 2002, 05:07:22 PM EDT
It's "Ridiculous", not "Rediculous", dammit!
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- (wharris2)
- (1)
- April 16, 2002, 10:43:05 AM EDT
Ah, yes! "DefinAtely" one of those that eluded me yesterday.
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- April 16, 2002, 03:44:07 PM EDT
A few more:
- (CRConrad)
- (6)
- April 16, 2002, 05:11:44 PM EDT
You keep missing my favorite:
- (jb4)
- (5)
- April 24, 2002, 01:57:57 PM EDT
OK, how about this one, then: "That's do to..."
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- April 24, 2002, 02:00:14 PM EDT
Sorry, Don't know that one...
- (jb4)
- (1)
- April 25, 2002, 06:41:24 PM EDT
Merkin, more than Real English. Must be pronounciation...
- (CRConrad)
- April 26, 2002, 02:23:50 AM EDT
It's up there with 'ironical'
- (Meerkat)
- (1)
- April 25, 2002, 10:23:23 PM EDT
Yup - the ":" indicates it's aberrant here, too. 'Call-in'
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- (Ashton)
- April 25, 2002, 11:53:32 PM EDT
Someone's clearly been reading...
- (kmself)
- April 29, 2002, 05:58:12 AM EDT