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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
The German lyrics, I think. Tho, German is barely fit for music. It always sounds like there’s a bit of phelm that could boil over at any moment. Tho I understand that folks in Latin America often confuse English for German and vice versa when they hear it spoken, so I suppose I shouldn’t poke too much fun. Teehehee
I kinda have a character that fits the song (which was chosen at random from my iTunes list called “My Cheesey Youth”). Marci/Megan/Whatever is a chatterbox only child and best friend and roommate of FMC. She has a ferocious, unrequited infatuation with the MMC who has his own designs to woo the FMC. FMC is focused on graduating on time because she can’t afford any more loans and thus won’t tolerate romantic distraction. That’s why FMC brings MMW to everything as a chaperone. I can make MMW’s signature color red. Maybe she likes red shoes or something.
Manic Monday is a little too easy ;) Heh.
The wine bottle fixture looked intriguing, but it doesn’t fit the space.
My receptacle is rather high on the wall, so I need something that goes down.
Can I go home now? I need a nap.
I stayed up until 12:30 helping Jr. with his first assignment for speech class.
So Jr. was up after midnight doing homework? You must be proud.
Well, there is that.
He worked until 10 and came home to finish the project.
they’re reorganizing our organization (which is what organizations do best) so we’re all chattering over the new arrangement of deck chairs. Officemates and I agree: we want a couch.
mmmmmm...couch...
Literal deck chairs or figurative “Titanic deck chairs” reference?
It is not surprising, since English is by far the largest Germanic language. The others are German and Dutch, plus their Scandinavian cousins Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic. To a speaker of a Latin based language, we are all still Germans. English does have an enormous vocabulary of words borrowed from the Latinate languages of course.
I can't think of any examples at the moment, but I think of that every time I hear one.
English has been reinventing itself for over a thousand years now. It's more directly related to Dutch, but abandoned most of the rules for plurals and word order over 500 years ago. It's been so busy adding and reworkng foreign words, it really hasn't gotten around to clarifying spelling rules.
I've talked to non-native English speakers who say it's an easy language to read and speak, but a b*tch to spell properly.
Cow -- Beef
Swine --Pork
The folks who cared for them spoke Anglo-Saxon, the folks who ate them spoke Norman French.
'Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Fries' Fries is the German Dutch dialect of Friesland in the Netherlands. So now you know a sentence in a foreign language.
I also know a famous sentence in German. "Ich bin ein Berliner." "I am a jelly donut," in colloquial German.
It's from a quotation made by James Nicoll. The original quotation: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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