[lit-ideas] Re: On Kudos
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:59:56 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/6/2005 11:14:54 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: On Kudos
>
> on 6/5/05 9:16 PM, Harold Hungerford at hh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > If you had been an Old Englishman, living sometime between 449 and
> > 1066, a milk-producing device would have been a cu (pronounced coo).
> > Ah, progress.
> >
> > Harold Hungerford
> >
> When I wrote the thing that started this thread, and when I told Andy
that I
> had written "cow," I assumed people knew that "Cow" is still pronounced
"cu"
> or "coo" in some parts of Scotland.
>
> Sorry if I was enigmatic.
A.A. This must be what New Agers call the universe's guiding hand. I'm
clueless how they speak in Scotland. It was total coincidence. I was
feeling goofy and taking it out on all you nice people. I know now that
humor gets lost in translation (anybody see the movie?) over the internet,
so I'll not use it henceforth. Okay, enough about me. What do you all
think about me?
Andy Amago
>
> O wad some Power the giftie gie us
> To hear oursels as ithers hear us!
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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