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Re: THEORY: questions

From:Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Saturday, October 27, 2001, 4:59
> << In French, we say: "il pleut des cordes" (it's raining ropes). We > have pity for these poor falling cats and dogs I guess :)))) > (though receiving a bunch of > ropes on your head mustn't be nice :)) ). >> > > I like this expression better. You can see raindrops as straight > ropes... "Raining cats and dogs" is one of the few things that > makes me ashamed of the English language. The other is the letter "w".
Why? I find the idiom to be delightful and idiosyncratic, the way almost all idioms in all languages are. The letter 'w' I can understand, but I wonder if we think of the same reasons. Why don't you like 'w'? Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran jaspax@ juno.com "We couldn't all be cowboys Some of us are clowns" --Counting Crows