<snip/>
"Q is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,if we would but
use the serviceable k as he should be, and restore him to the reputation
he had with our forefathers.
For the English Saxons knew not this halting q,with her waiting-woman u
after her ... [t]ill custom, under the excuse of expressing enfranchised words with us, entreated her into our language."
<snip/>
Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals.
Jonson on language (briefly excerpted):
A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering...
How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly!
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
[That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?]
These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his lifetime) called:
"Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed
out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of
the times"
Besides that, and some great plays, he wrote an English Grammar!
It's quite good -- available online in various forms.
"Q is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,if
we would but use the serviceable k as he should be, and
restore him to the reputation he had with our forefathers.
For the English Saxons knew not this halting q,with her
waiting-woman u after her ... [t]ill custom, under the excuse of
expressing enfranchised words with us, entreated her into our language."
“R is the dog’s letter and hurreth in the sound”
(OED hurr, v. (obsolete) To make or utter a dull sound of vibration or trilling; to buzz as an insect; to snarl as a dog; to pronounce a
trilled r.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson
On 6/11/2024 3:42 AM, Ross Clark wrote:
Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals.
not Marlowe?
Jonson on language (briefly excerpted):
A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering...
How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly!
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
[That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?]
isn't that what Romeo says? --> No...
it's prob Socrates.
These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his
lifetime) called:
"Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed
out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion
of
the times"
why is it entitled Timber???
HenHanna wrote:
On 6/11/2024 3:42 AM, Ross Clark wrote:
Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals.
not Marlowe?
Jonson on language (briefly excerpted):
A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering...
How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly!
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
[That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?]
isn't that what Romeo says? --> No...
it's prob Socrates.
These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his
lifetime) called:
"Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed
out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion
of
the times"
why is it entitled Timber???
..."as we are commonly used to call the infinite mixed
multitude of growing trees a wood, so the ancients gave
the name of Sylvæ—Timber Trees—to books of theirs in
which small works of various and diverse matter were
promiscuously brought together.”
<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5134/5134-h/5134-h.htm>
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