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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 6 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98250 03/15/03 07:56 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Isn't steam a mist, as is fog Thank you, Juan, for hoisting this thread back up onto its proper course. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98251 03/15/03 08:38 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Thank you, Juan, for hoisting this thread back up onto its proper course. Yeahbut®, how can anything be on its proper course if it's lost in a fog? "Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people." --Eugene O'Neill Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: larger than life #98252 03/15/03 08:44 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel OP enthusiast OP wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 why would a crown prince know a court jester well? Why? Read on, sjm, just one sentence further. Why? Because this jester "hath borne me on his back a thousand times ... Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft". It is Yorick who is fondly remembered here, not Horatio. Horatio is nothing more than a prop on this occasion, irrelevant to Hamlet's reminiscence. Again we see the art in the misquotation, sjm: "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" adds to the original what is necessary and implied, and subtracts from the original what is irrelevant and distracting. In the process, it becomes a badge of grief for the loss of someone dear, communicating emotions which are totally absent from the original when excised from the Play. Shakespeare would surely approve. Thank you, sjm, for providing so vivid a proof of the axiom I have stated so boldly. [I worried that I might be skating on thin ice but you have convinced me otherwise.] BTW I have never encountered "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" before. I take your word for it that some people use it, but it has not become a standard substitution [thankfully] and, therefore, it does not abridge our rule. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98253 03/15/03 10:55 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel OP enthusiast OP wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 Thank you, Juan, for hoisting this thread back up onto its proper course This mixed metaphor is right up there with "evaporation into the mist", Faldage. You have, indeed, hoisted us back on course. Bravo. Do you have more? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98254 03/15/03 11:10 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I imagined some kind of multi-tracked roller coaster with the thread's having been a car fallen off one of the tracks and Juan's having hoisted the car back up with a system of pulleys. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98255 03/15/03 11:26 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont tryin' waaaay too hard, dub-dub. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98256 03/15/03 11:28 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Hey, eta. Just caught y'all on PHC. You guys rocked our socks off. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98257 03/15/03 11:32 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont hey, thanks! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98258 03/15/03 11:38 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Sorry I missed your performance, 'et. Rats! Now about this observation: tryin' waaaay too hard, dub-dub. I didn't try at all. I was just letting you know how my mind automatically and effortlessly envisioned what Faldage wrote. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate #98259 03/16/03 05:40 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 This thread started with a query about the phrase, 'evaporating into THE mists of coincidence'. There is a definite article there and therefore, the presence of a mist is already assumed by the speaker. The speaker never suggests not intends to suggest that THIS particular evaporation is what is causing the mist. I don't see anything in that sentence that implies that, this evaporation 'became' the mist. Somewhere along the road, this phrase has been converted into, 'evaporation into mist'. And hence, all this scientific/semantic plausibility confusion. There would be no mix up, metaphorical or otherwise, if it is read as it originally was meant to read: evaporation into THE mists of coincidence. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 6 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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