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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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