When I sent off mine, I wanted to accompany it with Gavin Douglas's "Fuck off, little book" comment.
Breif burall quair, of eloquence all quyte, With russet weid and sentence imperfyte, Til cum in plane, se thow thow not pretend tha.53 Thy barrant termis and thy vyle endyte Sall not be min; I wyll not have the wyte. For, as for me, I quytcleme that I kend tha. Thow art bot stouth. Thyft lovys lycht but lyte. Not worth a myte, pray ilk man till amend tha. Fare on with syte! and on this wyse I end tha.
Of course, in my dissertation, I discussed a poem where the author couldn't even be bothered to do that, and the book itself apologized for him. Seemed fitting.
Leaving that aside, however, huzzah! (Also, notice that Dr. M has made it impossible for me to start a sentence with however. It seems like disrespect to the dead to do it.)
No, it just means that you weren't under the influence of Dr. M, who had a way of convincing you that you weren't to do that.
I mean, it is just a random holdover from Latin grammar and shouldn't be given that much weight, but . . . let's just say that he was fairly good at imposing his will when it came to specific finicky matters of style.
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Also, now they have pink buses.
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Breif burall quair, of eloquence all quyte,
With russet weid and sentence imperfyte,
Til cum in plane, se thow thow not pretend tha.53
Thy barrant termis and thy vyle endyte
Sall not be min; I wyll not have the wyte.
For, as for me, I quytcleme that I kend tha.
Thow art bot stouth. Thyft lovys lycht but lyte.
Not worth a myte, pray ilk man till amend tha.
Fare on with syte! and on this wyse I end tha.
Of course, in my dissertation, I discussed a poem where the author couldn't even be bothered to do that, and the book itself apologized for him. Seemed fitting.
Leaving that aside, however, huzzah! (Also, notice that Dr. M has made it impossible for me to start a sentence with however. It seems like disrespect to the dead to do it.)
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I can't actually start sentences with "However" anymore either.
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I mean, it is just a random holdover from Latin grammar and shouldn't be given that much weight, but . . . let's just say that he was fairly good at imposing his will when it came to specific finicky matters of style.
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