tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4430655274086220294..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: COMMENTSFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-57015933037934384072021-02-11T17:05:03.855+00:002021-02-11T17:05:03.855+00:00I lament, dear and reverend Father, to disagree wi...I lament, dear and reverend Father, to disagree with you on the question of your objection to the use of "monstrous old hag" with reference to Speaker Nancy Pelosi---both on linguistic and ethical grounds. As a commenter above rightly points out, the rhetorical trope of tautology in the service of emphasis is not only appropriate in this case but forceful (one of the great uses of coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72469950112192708952021-02-07T22:21:10.171+00:002021-02-07T22:21:10.171+00:00Behold A Silly Tender Babe
BEHOLD a silly tender ...Behold A Silly Tender Babe<br /><br />BEHOLD a silly tender Babe,<br />In freezing winter night,<br />In homely manger trembling lies<br />Alas! a piteous sight.<br /><br />The inns are full, no man will yield<br />This little Pilgrim bed;<br />But forced He is with silly beasts<br />In crib to shroud His head.<br /><br />Despise Him not for lying there,<br />First what He is inquire;<br />An commenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050018892438879929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66673822596624092662021-02-07T01:18:07.015+00:002021-02-07T01:18:07.015+00:00For those of us who watched Monty Python sketches ...For those of us who watched Monty Python sketches in our teens, "silly" is redolent of the whole farcical side of human existence, in which everyone, oneself included, is slightly silly, silly or extremely silly. We see ludicrous situations developing and wish that we could step in like the Python colonel and bring proceedings to an abrupt halt on the grounds that it is all getting tooGrant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-46934269473240959612021-02-07T00:53:21.243+00:002021-02-07T00:53:21.243+00:00In the great White North of British North America ...In the great White North of British North America the word silly also has a mild connotation perhaps indicating one who is not really all that responsible for their obvious moral and political degeneracy due to a lack of what Hercule Poirot might call the "little grey cells."<br /><br />Congresshuman Pelosi strikes me as not entirely stupid. Methinks she is sly, calculating, amoral, John the Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899858119936750764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37044383318301854262021-02-06T20:06:22.230+00:002021-02-06T20:06:22.230+00:00I'm confident your correspondent used the term...I'm confident your correspondent used the term 'hag' in reference to the hagfish, otherwise known as a lamprey, which fixes itself to stones via its mouth. 'Lamprey' derives from Late Latin 'lampetra', a combination of 'lambere' (to lick) and 'petra' (rock). Given this more insightful (and *charitable*) reading, one may suppose that the 'old hag'Gillineauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17789163020221679786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33255248600121962762021-02-06T10:36:58.668+00:002021-02-06T10:36:58.668+00:00"Surely, "old hag" is tautologous....."Surely, "old hag" is tautologous.." Yes, it's tautological hyperbolic intensification meant to emphasize the specific hag in question's spiritual, ethical and physical desiccation. fitzhamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01852672798351791749noreply@blogger.com