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|    Aidan Kehoe to All    |
|    Re: Wordsworth promises to finish a Pref    |
|    16 Sep 24 07:28:04    |
      From: kehoea@parhasard.net               Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:               > "Really used by men"?        > "The language was certainly a great deal 'plainer' than the crafted       elegance of        > many previous writers, but it was still some way from everyday rustic       domestic        > speech, as pointed out by Coleridge in his _Biographia Literaria_ a few       years        > later."              That part of the point of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, wasn’t it? That everyday       rustic domestic speech was actually documented in the mouth of the love       interest, and the associated class ructions with that.              --       ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /       How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’       (C. Moore)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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