Dragaera

Evolving language

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Mon Aug 19 07:21:57 PDT 2002

Mark A Mandel writes:
>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".

Methinks that was the point...
(Or Gaiman's point, at least).

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