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From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid
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Count Menelvagor spoke these staves:
>
> On Jul 30, 5:57 pm, Troels Forchhammer
> wrote:
>>
>> You are, obviously, free to disagree, but I don't think that the
>> objection you raise, with which I fully agree, serves as an
>> argument against my opinion here.
>
> i didn't actually say that; the attributions are easy to confuse,
> and i've no very clear idea who, before ojevind (sorry to leve out
> the accent) said what.
Sorry -- my fault. I was addressing Öje and knew it, but it was
obviously not very smart to use 'you' in at least three different
senses in one message referring to Öje (to whom you, Count
Menelvagor, had responded), to the generic reader and to yourself,
Monsieur le Comte. (Now I'm wondering how it could have been handled
better . . ..)
I do agree that attributions can be confusing -- one problem, I
believe, is that it was actually you, Count Menelvagor, who put in
the attribution to myself. Therefore the attribution has one level of
quote indentation, while the text that I actually wrote has two
levels -- this is one reason why I always try to add a line beneath
each attribution with the level appropriate to the attribution just
above (somehow I feel that this only made matters worse -- I hope
it's clear enough what I mean when one looks at the attributions in
my posts ;-)
> but i daresay you're right, as saying "tolkien was a modern writer"
> doesn't imply "tolkien isn't redolent of sagas."
Precisely.
--
Troels Forchhammer
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as simply fun
and earnestness
in earnest
shows how thouroughly
thou none
of the two
discernest.
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