[lit-ideas] Re: Vikings
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:08:15 -0600
VINKING????????? That's the old Norwegian way of spelling it -- just ask
Torgeir.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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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