Text 166, 97 rader
Skriven 2005-09-02 20:52:14 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
    Kommentar till text 162 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Rules...  2Ai.
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Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  I've heard that the "William Shakespeare" who lived in
AH>  Stratford was an illiterate businessman.  That's why
AH>  there are so many theories about who really wrote the
AH>  stuff, I guess....  :-))

JB>  I suppose he could have dictated the manuscripts, but
JB>  that would still make the scripts in someone else's
JB>  hand. The last theory I heard was the broker business,
JB>  and all the laureates were in a cafuffle over it.


          Hmm... they may find it difficult to imagine how an illiterate person
could be a broker of manuscripts, but I've met plenty of salespeople who seemed
quite ignorant about what they were dealing in!  A lot of the more entertaining
theories have to do with some individual who preferred not to have his identity
made public for one reason or another.  I think it's quite possible that such a
person might employ a broker to distribute his work, and a broker might be able
to find a market for stuff he hadn't read himself.  He might even have supplied
material to certain theatres in exchange for a share of their receipts....  :-)



AH>  Other people don't have to assist teenagers with such
AH>  "routines of daily living" either... (wry grin).

JB>  That's your story, and you are sticking to it? <-;


          Okay, the *vast majority* of other people don't!  I know people whose
Aged Parents require help at bedtime... as did my father when he'd had a stroke
similar to Nora's.  But from what I've heard, parents of teenagers generally go
to bed whenever they feel like it & let the kids put themselves to bed....  :-)



JB>  I always answer others posts first, as usually they are
JB>  a lot less involved, and take much less contemplation.
JB>  You, are a taxing corespondent. <-|


          Thankyou for sticking with it!  From my point of view, you write in a
rather enigmatic & metaphorical style at times... as if you were writing lyrics
for a song... and it takes me awhile to figure out what you mean.  OTOH, I make
people think.  But we seem to get onto the same wave length eventually....  ;-)



AH>  I smell a joke coming on which might fit into a tagline
AH>  too.  "Old schoolteachers never die, they just lose their
AH>  class"... [chuckle].

JB>  How about, "Teachers without class..." Hmmm... That seems
JB>  like a dead end.


          Yes... I used the pattern of jokes like "Old blondes never fade, they
just dye away" as a signal that the statement is a pun.  The word "class" could
be interpreted as social status (cf. the disapproving "not our class, Dear") or
as a group of students.  The ambiguity is part of what makes it funny....  :-))



AH>  I see you've got the drift....  :-)

JB>  Now I'm trying to remember the lesson after my summer
JB>  holiday.


          We were talking about possessive nouns.  If the noun is plural it may
have an "s" at the end already, in which case we don't add another "s".  If the
noun is singular but has an "s" at the end, e.g. "James", we may or may not add
another "s".  Either way I wouldn't lop the "s" off the end of your name & tack
it on somewhere else... but I've seen that done with nouns like "persons".  :-)



JB>  Hmmm... Something else I'm not recalling. Who was the
JB>  brunt of the moron joke?


          Nora is mentally handicapped.  It's not a problem in this echo... but
I've run across it in public playgrounds & in certain other echoes.



JB>  I'll go check right after I catch up to the raspberries. <G>


          Yes, first things first!  I love fresh raspberries....  :-))




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