Comments on: Sweet Rainy South http://www.wormlips.com/blog/2008/08/25/sweet-rainy-south/ It's All About Me Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:33:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ginna http://www.wormlips.com/blog/2008/08/25/sweet-rainy-south/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Ginna Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:53:32 +0000 http://www.wormlips.com/blog/?p=1519#comment-961 Hey, Oleggy & Richard. I find it genuinely amazing that you guys not only read this here thing sometimes, but take the time to comment. It's such a treat for me. Thank ye. I loved reading what you both wrote — particularly when I was far from home. Did I say thank ye? Thank ye. Hey, Oleggy & Richard. I find it genuinely amazing that you guys not only read this here thing sometimes, but take the time to comment. It’s such a treat for me. Thank ye. I loved reading what you both wrote — particularly when I was far from home. Did I say thank ye? Thank ye.

]]> By: Oleg K. http://www.wormlips.com/blog/2008/08/25/sweet-rainy-south/comment-page-1/#comment-958 Oleg K. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:11:32 +0000 http://www.wormlips.com/blog/?p=1519#comment-958 "How can I remember so vividly something I’ve never seen?" Magic. “How can I remember so vividly something I’ve never seen?”

Magic.

]]> By: Richard http://www.wormlips.com/blog/2008/08/25/sweet-rainy-south/comment-page-1/#comment-957 Richard Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:10:46 +0000 http://www.wormlips.com/blog/?p=1519#comment-957 What? Only one person picked up on your conversation about derivational morphemes? What kinda rube burg was that, anyway? Linguistic trivia for the day: Old English stretched a very limited vocabulary to great effect with 'em. If you wanted to call your country's leader a jerk, for instance, you could take one of his name's two morphemes, negate it with a derivational, and use it as an epithet. For example, Æđelræd (our Ethelred) was the George Bush of his day. Completely clueless. A real flatliner. Therefore he was known as Æđelræd Unræd ( = Noble&counsel Uncounsel, or idiomatically, Ethelred who is out to lunch ). Like calling our Boy Wonder George W. Bushleague, only more skillfully, from a linguistic point of view. And, yes, this is the Ethelred whose epithet was later mistranslated as The Unready. He wasn't unready. He just did the exact wrong thing, again and again. Yours for the ironic circularity of history, R What? Only one person picked up on your conversation about derivational morphemes? What kinda rube burg was that, anyway?

Linguistic trivia for the day:

Old English stretched a very limited vocabulary to great effect with ‘em. If you wanted to call your country’s leader a jerk, for instance, you could take one of his name’s two morphemes, negate it with a derivational, and use it as an epithet. For example, Æđelræd (our Ethelred) was the George Bush of his day. Completely clueless. A real flatliner. Therefore he was known as Æđelræd Unræd ( = Noble&counsel Uncounsel, or idiomatically, Ethelred who is out to lunch ). Like calling our Boy Wonder George W. Bushleague, only more skillfully, from a linguistic point of view.

And, yes, this is the Ethelred whose epithet was later mistranslated as The Unready. He wasn’t unready. He just did the exact wrong thing, again and again.

Yours for the ironic circularity of history,

R

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