-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/09/07 06:34, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Listening to people sing in Italian (or German) about incest and >> matricide is not my cup of tea. > > > We'll make sure not to ever invite you to any Shakespeare plays then, > either.
The differences between Elizabethan English and modern American makes Shakespeare is pretty difficult for me, constantly having to think about what the phrase means, or having to pause the flow and look down into the footnotes to determine the archaic meaning of a word or phrase. Monty Python is almost as bad, with their non-RP accents and topics that were frequently specific to early-1970s Britain. > Classic fictional tragedies often use such topics as a setting for an > epic plot to emerge. > Hamlet: > Madam, how like you this play? > > Queen: > The lady doth protest too much, methinks. > > (Of course, the above is a misquote, since the word "protest" meant > something quite different in Shakespeare's time, but you get the idea. > GRIN.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile." Santa-bot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHW+0BS9HxQb37XmcRAqmAAJwPn3GABqd/DiW7x1yrbFOm+rmpggCfeWcF XCi9sgH3U43MPtV5QHXTbVs= =gZFN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
