[lit-ideas] The Wisdom of Joseph

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:41:28 EDT

 
 
We were discussing the couplet,
 
    Wouldst ye float a rusted boat
           in a  stormee see?  
     Nay! But seek ye out a safe  'arbour. 
     And then: laugheth loudest thee 
     at alle those without a place to gour.
 


Joseph of Arhythmia, Kalakala 32:12-13. 

We were noting the dialectal divergence between the 'ye' and the 'thee'  
forms. This can be ascribed, as it has been, to a _sociolect_ ('he was from the 
 
hood'). It can be yet another of his interpolations (cf. "Vote for Kerry", on  
verse 15).
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 


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