Re: OT: phat/vet/fat
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 13, 2002, 19:10 |
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Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
> Anyway, it's a good thing Americans don't take their verbal logic too
> seriously, otherwise everyone would be suing jewelers for selling
> fake gold rings... they glitter, and everybody knows that "all that
> glitters *ain't* gold"!
Um... that's not peculiar to America. It's found throughout the
English-speaking world. You've read your Tolkien, right? If so,
you would know he uses it there in one of the LotR series of books.
Like the the vast majority of oddities about the English language,
this one originated in Britain, since the language was born there.
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Thomas Wier "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n /
Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought /
1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn"
Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers
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