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 Posted: May 02, 2012 - 06:50 AM |
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Posted: May 02, 2012 - 09:43 AM |
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Posted: May 02, 2012 - 10:15 AM |
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O Romeo, Romeo!wherefore art thou Romeo?
Down in the bush you damn fool, the ladder broke.
Except that joke also fails to understand the meaning of "wherefore". It's not asking "where are you Romeo?" but "why are you Romeo?" or more accurately "why are you a Montague?". In other words, why are you a member of the family that my family has a feud with as this is gonna get real tricky. |
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Posted: May 02, 2012 - 03:59 PM |
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Whoa, learn something new ever day. Wonder wherefore I didn't already know this?
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Posted: May 02, 2012 - 04:30 PM |
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Wrote this some years ago when I had a client who was afraid of going to SQL:
http://clarionconnection.com/tosql.htm |
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Posted: May 03, 2012 - 01:19 AM |
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I think my argument was with 'archaic'.
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archaic - adjective
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2. (of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels. Examples: thou; wast; methinks; forsooth.
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Whoa, learn something new ever day. Wonder wherefore I didn't already know this?
So does this mean that you actually did not know the meaning, or was that a joke? |
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Posted: May 03, 2012 - 02:00 AM |
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No, it was not a joke. I learned that 'down in the bushes' joke when I was a kid and always thought it meant wherefore was a long form for where. My problem with archaic comes from when I learned about the history of the English language which was divided into Old, Middle, and Modern the latter of which being coincident with Shakespeare and Johnson. Howsomeever, methinks I'll accept thine definition of archaic wast correct and concede total humiliating defeat forsooth yea wastrel.
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Posted: May 03, 2012 - 07:02 AM |
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clawson wrote:
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O Romeo, Romeo!wherefore art thou Romeo?
Down in the bush you damn fool, the ladder broke.
Except that joke also fails to understand the meaning of "wherefore".
It's very exciting but my wife understood the sentence without looking it up in a dictionary! Excellent! Unfortunately I didn't  |
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Posted: May 05, 2012 - 07:14 PM |
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You know, he could read Chaucer. Or Burns.  |
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