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Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 16, 2003, 23:14
H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> That depends. It might be that 50 years after the death of these > self-proclaimed martyrs people will dig up their bones to throw into the > river. :-P
From a theatre review: "The great Shakespeare/Bacon controversy can be resolved at last. After last night's performance of _Hamlet_, all that will be necessary is to exhume both bodies. The one that has turned over is it." For non-anglophones, this refers to a cliche about people "turning over in their graves" if they could hear/see what was done with/to/by their works, children, or what have you after their deaths. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_

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