On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:26:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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.
To understand Shakespeare, just put your mind in the gutter. Although, "Do you bite your thumb at me" really does refer to the first digit of the hand. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
