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[THOUGHTS] Future footnotes? "Your Latin is showing"
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Jansy Mello: She walked to the end of the platform in Tolstoys novel.
First exponent of the inner monologue, later exploited by the French and the
Irish. Nest vert, nest vert, nest vert. Larbre aux quarante écus dor,
at least in the fall. Never, never shall I hear again her botanical voice
fall at biloba, sorry, my Latin is showing. Ginkgo, gingko, ink, inkog.
Known also as Salisburys adiantofolia, Adas infolio, poor Salisburia:
sunk; poor Stream of Consciousness, marée noire by now. Who wants Ardis
Hall!
(Ada)
One of my grandkids was telling me about her sisters visit to an optician.
The little girl hadnt yet learned her letters and so his optometric test
couldnt rely on the alphabet, but demanded a special chart with images of
varying sizes. Unfortunately small Elena was unable to describe what she
saw. Her parentss worries about her eye-sight were assuaged only after they
saw the chart themselves. The optometrist was exhibiting pictures of dial
phones, analogic wall clocks, Hi-Fi sound systems, VHS, cassettes, typing
machines and shed never seen any of these objects before! Her blindness
was of a different order. Wed been also chatting about panties, bloomers
and slips when I remembered a sentence in ADA, with her sophisticated
remark that her Latin was showing, obviously linked to the expression my
slip is showing - which I feared must now be on the way to become an
archaic expression. I checked it with the google and noticed that young
people already wonder about its meaning.* Soon the volume of Annotations
to VNs novels will have to be increased
.
*- In the olden days, girls wear petticoat, out of modesty and / or
because their skirt was 'transparent'. This petticoat is also referred to as
'slip'. So, the above expression simply means that the 'slip' or petticoat
was longer than the skirt and it is 'showing' / 'exposed' to the public.
This is not so nice. Girls of that time had to be more 'conservative'.
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First exponent of the inner monologue, later exploited by the French and the
Irish. Nest vert, nest vert, nest vert. Larbre aux quarante écus dor,
at least in the fall. Never, never shall I hear again her botanical voice
fall at biloba, sorry, my Latin is showing. Ginkgo, gingko, ink, inkog.
Known also as Salisburys adiantofolia, Adas infolio, poor Salisburia:
sunk; poor Stream of Consciousness, marée noire by now. Who wants Ardis
Hall!
(Ada)
One of my grandkids was telling me about her sisters visit to an optician.
The little girl hadnt yet learned her letters and so his optometric test
couldnt rely on the alphabet, but demanded a special chart with images of
varying sizes. Unfortunately small Elena was unable to describe what she
saw. Her parentss worries about her eye-sight were assuaged only after they
saw the chart themselves. The optometrist was exhibiting pictures of dial
phones, analogic wall clocks, Hi-Fi sound systems, VHS, cassettes, typing
machines and shed never seen any of these objects before! Her blindness
was of a different order. Wed been also chatting about panties, bloomers
and slips when I remembered a sentence in ADA, with her sophisticated
remark that her Latin was showing, obviously linked to the expression my
slip is showing - which I feared must now be on the way to become an
archaic expression. I checked it with the google and noticed that young
people already wonder about its meaning.* Soon the volume of Annotations
to VNs novels will have to be increased
.
*- In the olden days, girls wear petticoat, out of modesty and / or
because their skirt was 'transparent'. This petticoat is also referred to as
'slip'. So, the above expression simply means that the 'slip' or petticoat
was longer than the skirt and it is 'showing' / 'exposed' to the public.
This is not so nice. Girls of that time had to be more 'conservative'.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080614061623AAburJ8
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