[B-Greek] Definitions and educational value
Donald Vance
donaldrvance at mac.com
Fri Feb 26 12:47:35 EST 2010
I thought it was the Byrds
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Donald R. Vance
donaldrvance at mac.com
On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Mark Lightman wrote:
>> \
>>> τριτον εγαψας
>>> a third time you egrapsed
>>>
>>> <I did not see anyone, American or other English
>>> native speaker, to communicate
>>> in Shakespearean English even as and exercise.>
>>>
>>> I used to think this too, in my salad days, when
>>> I was green in judgment. Remember that much
>>> of what I say is strange. Therefore as a stranger
>>> give it welcome. As one guy said to me off-list:
>>> "Your posts remind me of the tale told by the
>>> proverbial IDIWTHS--they are full of sound and
>>> fury but they signify nothing." Another said:
>>> "Lightman, your posts are too long. More matter
>>> and less art, please." One guy said "When I
>>> read your e-missives that seem to go on and on
>>> without making much of a point, I say 'Be not
>>> so long to speak. I long to die.'" To which
>>> I said, "Seems? Nay, 'tis I know not 'seems...'"
>>>
>>> Stuff like that. :)
>>
>> Remember the lines from "Kiss Me, Kate"?
>>
>> "Brush UP your Shakespeare -- Start QUOTing him now!"
>
> Lyrics at: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/kissmekate/brushupyourshakespeare.htm
>
> It's really pretty funny. It was Shakespeare, was it not, who wrote:
>
> "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under
> the heaven:
> A time for levity ... "
>
>
>>
>> It hath been said, and I do myself believe 'tis true, that
>> phraseology of
>> the English Bible in the KJV and of Shakespearean plays affects the
>> language spoken and written by English-speakers far beyond what
>> they are conscious of. It is impossible to estimate properly the
>> impact
>> of the classics of a nation's literature on the way its people
>> speak and
>> write. To speak, to write: 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad\
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