[lit-ideas] Re: Vikings
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:01:41 -0600
JLS:
>"Between you and I, I go for I anyday"
An I for an I?
DR:
>>Apologies for the choice of example. Nothing "correct" about rape
and pillage.<<
Unless you're a Viking. Remember the Olde Vinking Drinking Songe:
"Rape and pillage, rape and pillage,
They go together like plunder and village,
plunder and village,
you can't have one,
no, you can't have one
without the other."
[apologies to all those who have been raped, pillaged or plundered].
Mike Geary
Memphis
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:13 PM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem with the vikings, as you say, was 'rape'.
>
> Ratto in Italian --as in the abduction of Figaro.
>
> I once wrote about this, "The abduction of Figaro" is doubly ambiguous in
> that 'off Figaro' can be objective or subjective -- cfr. Ira Dei -- the
> wrath of God, timor inamicorum, the fear of the enemies.
>
> ---
>
> The girl, incidentally, hick and all, was correct,
>
> "have not much patience with _us_." Never with 'we'. It's
> hypercorrection, as when you hear
>
> "Between you and I, I go for I anyday"
>
> Etc.
>
> J. L. S.
>
> GrammEr as she is Spoke
>
>
> In a message dated 2/8/2010 3:03:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Apologies for the choice of example. Nothing "correct" about rape
> and pillage.
>
> David
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