HIGHLA-L Digest - 28 Apr 2001 to 29 Apr 2001 (#2001-138)
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Topics of the day:
1. whappings, trappings, misspellings
2. literacy (2)
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:10:01 -0500
From: Bridget Mintz Testa <btesta@hypercon.com>
Subject: whappings, trappings, misspellings
>Debbie wrote:
>>... I encourage everyone here to look to the message in each post on
>>this list and not at the 'trappings' - misspellings, grammar, or
>>sentence structure.
Then Marina wrote:
>Of course, this not not apply to misspellings of "Richie".
>People who misspell Richie will be whapped.
>
>(Except for ZK, who *likes* being whapped and therefore is never
>indulged.)
And then Terry Howard wrote:
>The Conner McCloud Boston Duel Reenactment.
AHEM.
That's Connor MacLeod. Consider yourself severely whapped, Terry.
Bridget
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Bridget Mintz Testa
btesta@hypercon.com
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:21:38 -0500
From: Bridget Mintz Testa <btesta@hypercon.com>
Subject: literacy
Ellen writes:
>That's what I'm talking about! Literate!
>
>Well, maybe not Chaucer or Thomas Hardy and that lot but HEY! It's the
>modern age....TV rules. But I still contend that's at least clever, if not
>literate. I love it.
Please. I'm reading Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" right now (in a
modern prose version), having recently finished reading Boccaccio's
"Decameron." Most of their tales are about getting laid, usually by
a young wife and her lover cuckolding a foolish or otherwise
deserving-of-being-cuckolded husband. Now what's so literate about
that? Sex sells, whether it's the 20th century or the 14th,
apparently.
Obligatory Highlander reference: Connor attended university in the
early 20th century and received a degree in Latin. We can therefore
take it for granted that he is a pretty literate guy who undoubtedly
read old Martial's epigrams, such as:
Diaulus, recently physician,
Has set up now as a mortician:
No change, though, in the clients' condition.
Literacy rocks.
Bridget
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Bridget Mintz Testa
btesta@hypercon.com
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:32:00 EDT
From: EllnT@aol.com
Subject: Re: literacy
In a message dated 4/28/01 11:19:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
btesta@hypercon.com writes:
Please. I'm reading Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" right now (in a
modern prose version), having recently finished reading Boccaccio's
"Decameron." Most of their tales are about getting laid, usually by
a young wife and her lover cuckolding a foolish or otherwise
deserving-of-being-cuckolded husband. Now what's so literate about
that?
I didn't mean to indicate that the subject matter was always worthy only that
it was presented in a literate way....? (C:
<<
Diaulus, recently physician,
Has set up now as a mortician:
No change, though, in the clients' condition.
Literacy rocks.
>>
Too funny!!
Ellen
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