Friday, April 24, 2009

To share a quote from a book that never fails to make me laugh...

The eternal debate waged in my mind, "To share, or not to share? Whether 'tis nobler to..."

Well, you get the picture. And I decided 'twas nobler to share.

Why yes, it does pertain to the fact that yesterday was Talk Like Shakespeare Day:

All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare's time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamelt could say with sepreme apostrophic confidence: "Fie on't! O fie!"; "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd"; and even "I am too much i' the sun" - the latter, incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actos to adopt a knowing expression and say i' - as if this actually added anything to the meaning.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss.

Overthinkers everywhere, go read that book. *One person gets up to go read book*... oh wait, that's me :)

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