Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.uncle-davey
Subject: A Hopkins medley (was:Re: co poza londynem?)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:16:23 +0200
Organization: nnoossppaamm
Lines: 52
Message-ID: <bhouuf$30v$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl>
References: <bhb6bj$eur$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl> <bhofqn$p0j$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl> <bhon1m$qsp$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl> <Xns93DAD78137C94adrianachapmanfreeis@130.133.1.4> <bhoobk$49r$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl> <bhoqrd$9ta$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>
Reply-To: "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pk23.warszawa.cvx.ppp.tpnet.pl
X-Trace: atlantis.news.tpi.pl 1061158672 3103 213.76.106.23 (17 Aug 2003 22:17:52 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:17:52 +0000 (UTC)
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.fan.uncle-davey:132
news:bhoqrd$9ta$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl...
> Once more about this group and *your* English usage.
> I can be wrong and if it proves so there's a chance i can change my
opinion
> but for now i think that:
> 'willing to emigrate to uk' != (does not equal) 'willing to know English
> (yes, i was wrong) on the level you present in your posts'.
> I just know to many people who live and work in uk (London, Birningham)
that
> know (possibly) your native language on *really* *basic* level. Guess
> what - they'v settled in and get along just fine. This group isn't only
for
> those who want to work on 'high' positions. Beside future managers, IT
> specialists and so on... there are people who just want a decent pay for a
> simple hard work. That's what they can offer and don't expect them to be
> English language freaks.
>
> gibffe
>
I don't. So far I've used only basic English.
I'm about to change all that.
If you want me to get more florid I can reach for the poems of Hopkins that
I have nearby.
For example:
"Glory be to God for dappled things
I ate his live err with some favoured beings
And a nice glass of key aunty;
Fhl! fhl! fhl! fhl! fhl! fhl! fhl!
Agent Clarice, art thou grieving,
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
On a related matter, I've been giving
Serious thought to eating thy wife.
I have desired to go
To maybe dinner, and a show."
Best,
Uncle Davey
(Bonus marks to anyone who can correctly identify the three Gerard Manley
Hopkins poems and the three Anthony Hopkins films referred to in that poem)
|
|