On Oct 6, 2:33 pm, "Kevin M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just because something has been used for hundreds of years doesn't
> make it correct (US citizens still write "theatre," for example, and
> that hasn't been correct since Noah Webster's first American-English
> dictionary). For that matter, not everything Shakespeare did was good.
> His comedies were abysmally unfunny. Like I said, it is me
> nit-picking, but, colloquial usage aside, the phrase isn't accurate,
> and if had the misfortune of having me as your English teacher, and
> you'd written it on a paper I was grading, you would have lost points.
To defend Shakespeare, in his time "comedies" were not required to be
funny--just have a happy ending.
Following this logic, most of our procedural drama series would be
considered comedies, since the good guys almost always win in the
end. If they don't, they would be tragedies.
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