At 08:14 PM 8/9/98 , Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow, M.D.
wrote:
>It would be gratifying if people who engage in
discussions about
>literature in English of whatever genre would use the
English language
>with a decent minimum of skill.
Ooo ... I never knew anal retentive grammarians stooped to
mysteries ...
learn something every day ... oh and before you get your
panties in a
wad
... that's "anal retentive" in the common use not the
definitive. Thank
you for your time.
IF THEY GAVE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR AD HOMINUM ARGUMENTS OUR
RESIDENT MORAL
AND CULTURAL ARBITER WOULD WIN ONE THREE YEARS IN A ROM. DEO
VOLANTE.
Actually ... it'd be gratifying if some would remember that
language is
nothing more than a tool of communication and that while it
may not have
been grammatically correct the majority of the speakers of
any lingo are
intelligent enough to understand what was meant. IT WOULD BE
EVEN MORE
GRATIFYING IF THERE EXISTED A MYSTERY LIST THAT WAS ABOUT
MYSTERIES AND
NOT DRIVEL AND PERSONAL PREJUDICES. THIS LIST, HAVING CLEARLY
GONE THE
WAY OF THE DOROTHY L LIST, IS NOW NO LONGER WORTH SUBSCRIBING
TO.
RATHER THEN DISCUSSING LITERATURE, IN THIS CASE THE MYSTERY
GENRE, IT
HAS DESCENDED INTO POST MODERN DECONSTRUCTIONALISM AND OTHER
ARCANE
DRIVEL THAT OCCUPIES EVERY LIVING MOMENT OF THOSE WHO A) HAVE
NOTHING
BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR MINDS, SUCH AS THEY ARE, AND WHO READ
FOR SOME
ARCANE REASON OBIVIOUSLY UNRELATED TO PLEASURE. AND WHOSE
SENSES OF
HUMOR WERE THE FIRST VICTIM OF THE CONDITION THAT DESTROYED
THEIR
RATIONALITY.
BYE BYE BIRDIE
Besides ... if grammar
was all it was knocked up to be Shakespeare wouldn't be one
of the
greatest
English writers of all time ... I mean really, how could he
possibly be
so
when grammar didn't exist at the time?
Just to remain on topic for shit's-n-giggles ... I find
Hamlet to be the
epitome of the hard-boiled character ... "to be or not to be
... that is
the question."
- ----
volente Deo,
Anthony
jackechs@erols.com or ICQ #3717510
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-- Dick Tartow ---who will continue to enjoy reading, and will manage at least another novel a month by unsubcribing to this forum which seems to be dominated by pontificating pompous putzes.
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