Japanese crossword «Rose»
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by any other name would be ...
My answer: confusing!
Your answer:
My answer: confusing!
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Romeo! Oh Romeo! Where for art thou Romeo!
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It's not "where for," it's "wherefore," which means "for what reason or purpose."
There has long been a question on the OkCupid site asking "In the line 'Wherefore art thou Romeo?,' what does 'wherefore' mean?" The available answers are (1) where, (2) why, (3) when, and (4) Who cares."
You'd be properly shocked at how many people self-identifying as college-educated, will answer 1 or 4, without even running it by a search engine. And that was true WAY before anyone was using it on smartphone app.
This issue has been of particular frustration to me, because I'm a big fan of Shakespeare, but largely I only enjoy the comedies, and I effectively loathe R&J. It's a crappy love story, with a crappy ending, all sandwiching a shocking amount of verbal and emotional abuse from most of the characters in the entire story.
But it doesn't stop me from being annoyed at something so classic being so often misquoted, because no one puts it in the context of the rest of the friggin' speech.
There has long been a question on the OkCupid site asking "In the line 'Wherefore art thou Romeo?,' what does 'wherefore' mean?" The available answers are (1) where, (2) why, (3) when, and (4) Who cares."
You'd be properly shocked at how many people self-identifying as college-educated, will answer 1 or 4, without even running it by a search engine. And that was true WAY before anyone was using it on smartphone app.
This issue has been of particular frustration to me, because I'm a big fan of Shakespeare, but largely I only enjoy the comedies, and I effectively loathe R&J. It's a crappy love story, with a crappy ending, all sandwiching a shocking amount of verbal and emotional abuse from most of the characters in the entire story.
But it doesn't stop me from being annoyed at something so classic being so often misquoted, because no one puts it in the context of the rest of the friggin' speech.
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Oh, sorry about that. However, I don't self identify as college educated, I'm still in highschool. I have only read one of his plays to completion, but I do have a preference for his comedies too!
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It's ok. As a grammar freak like Femme_Appeal, I must tell you that if you hit one of our buttons we'll lash out indiscriminately. "Between you and I"? I want to scream. "I had drank the coffee"? Like nails on a blackboard. One of the worst is "Why don't you go lay down?" I want to ask if they're suggesting I should take a bunch of tiny feathers and place them neatly on some surface, or that I should produce tiny feathers from some bodily aperture. If they want me to stretch out horizontally somewhere, why the EVERLOVIN' BLUE-EYED FREAKING HELL can't they say so. [It's all right, I'm calmer now.]
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Hi, English is not my native language but I think I understand your complaints. I did not get the “lay down” one immediately but loved your phrases once I understood them. The “had drank” sounds strange even for me. Aamof, it reminds me of “gerundismo”, which became a plague in Brazil, when people say, say, the tortuous “vou estar levando” (I will be taking) instead of the straightforward “vou levar” (I will take). And I find the first complaint (between you and I) particularly interesting for me, a Portuguese speaker. In my language, that would translate as “entre você e eu”, which is incorrect but… sounds much better than the correct “entre você e mim”, so much so that many authors are now adopting the incorrect form. Language is a kind of living organism, so maybe the better sounding expression will become correct in some decades. Pity I will not be around anymore to appreciate it.
replyTHANK YOU! As an English major with a lifelong love of the language and literature, it feels like I've had to explain this to far too many people. Also, love the shout out to that OkCupid question, I've always gotten a kick out of but also given a derisive eye roll over the number of people I've seen there who still think it means "where."
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I think it should have slightly higher star for difficulty. Nice pic
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