Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  "For this relief, much thanks!" [Wm. Shakespeare]....  :-))

JB>  Didn't he also say, "Come here wench."


        Quite possibly... he might have used "hither" for
"here", though.  ;-)



JB>  How accurate do you know the theory, that Willy was really
JB>  a drunkard broker of literature?


        I don't know about the drunkard part, but I've heard that the
"William Shakespeare" who lived in Stratford was an illiterate
businessman.  That's why there are so many theories about who really wrote
the stuff, I guess....  :-))



AH>  I gather that's correct in American English.  In British
AH>  English it's "Dickens's", but the "s" would *not* be
AH>  added with certain other names....  :-)

JB>  I might have read the sign wrong, but it's not like a lot
JB>  of people thumb through their, "How to Confuse The Masses
JB>  (English, The Idiotic)". Well, not a Friday night, anyway.


        Probably not!  I'd written most of the message earlier, however,
and I posted it while Nora was finishing her bedtime snack.  Other people
don't have to assist teenagers with such "routines of daily
living" either... (wry grin).



AH>  I've yet to meet a person who has had to go to the
AH>  emergency ward as a result of dangling a participle

JB>  I can tell this is going to be one of those days.
JB>  I smell a tagline comin' on! I'm gonna look for my
JB>  work-boots for now. [TTYL8R]


        I imagine you'll die with your boots on... not just yet, of course!
 I like that.  I smell a joke coming on which might fit into a tagline too.
 "Old schoolteachers never die, they just lose their class"...
[chuckle].



JB>  OK, if it can make sense I can make an attempt at
JB>  learning it. 

JB>  Ten persons' fingers waving.
JB>  That person's hands had ten fingers.

JB>  I won't elaborate on what they were waving at. 


        Not necessary, anyway.  I see you've got the drift....  :-)



JB>  Poor girl was the brunt of too many jokes, but they were
JB>  all too true, and all too funny!


        Yeah.  I don't appreciate "little moron" jokes, for
example... (sigh).



JB>  Ah... My head was thinking a comma was an apostrophe,
JB>  and I thought I was just being smart. )-: I just spent
JB>  the day fixing a fence yesterday, so I might have a
JB>  few more of those today.


        Did you get the nails in the right place??   See next message....  :-)




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