Dragaera

Evolving language

Rick Castello rick at 404.978.org
Sun Aug 18 14:17:08 PDT 2002

<quote who="Mark A Mandel">
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, magical truthsaying bastard roney! wrote:
>
> #I have no joke here, i just like saying, "Thou look'st passing fair,
> #milady, excepst thou manglest the Queen's good English and your tits
> #are hanging out."
>
> If thou seekest consistency in thy speech, conclude instead by saying
> not "your tits", but "thy tits".

     Ah, but I rather appreciate the "when in Rome" or "plank in thy
     own eye" effect of Gaiman's version... a coarsening of the tongue
     as the subject grows more coarse...  :)

     -Rick