[lit-ideas] Re: Juliet Smells A Rat
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:47:33 EDT
In a message dated 4/7/2009 4:41:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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That much I'll grant. But then perhaps 'sound' is the correct word:
"It sounded horrible" -- rather than "I heard it horrible".
Transferring into the agentive for 'smell' we get:
"It smells horrible". --- correcting the incorrect, "I smell horribly"?
No. The opposite. It would be incorrect to say,
"It tastes horrible", "It smells horrible". One has to stick with the
grammatical:
"I smell horrible", "I taste horrible".
Geary will object:
The distinction between "I smell horrible" and "It smells horrible"
"I smell horrible" is _subjective_, 'It smells horrible' _pretends_,
assumes, to be objective. But there's no such thing. That's why Juliet smells a
rat.
Roses don't smell (as sweet or as bitter -- they don't smell -- period).
_She_ can smell a rose by any other name.
"Doff thy name", she says to Romeo.
O. T. O. H., my mother tells me that oftentimes females fall for the
accidentalia in a man, including his titles, cars, real estate, and all that
Aristotle called 'proprium' _even_. Never the essence.
JL
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