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01-26-2012, 07:11 PM | #18935 (permalink) |
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“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt it. They’re too farting busy sneering at a greengrocer’s less than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think they’re guardians of language. They’re no more guardians of language than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind.”
-Stephen Fry Jus' sayin' |
01-26-2012, 09:32 PM | #18939 (permalink) |
shake it for me:)
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Nor Cal bxtch,California (:
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lol nooo i was wearing a black shirt that day and he blended in with it (:
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