Re: loose fitting head joint
Re: loose fitting head joint
11:31 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Bilbo (1340 points)
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aha!,
That other Apostrophe.
Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé, "turning away"; the final e being sounded) is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a talker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In dramatic works and poetry, it is often introduced by the word "O" (not to be confused with the exclamation "oh").
That would be funny also if I were the actor in a play and I lost that apostrophe.
O, Me. O, My. What do I do know?
Instead of:
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
It would be O death, where art thou? I was talking to you!
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Re: loose fitting head joint
13:45 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Re: loose fitting head joint
14:04 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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jose_luis (2369 points)
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Quite interesting! I learn and learn...
If you had not lost your ἀποστροφή, but just your punctuation apostrophe, would your post have been something like:
My lost apostrophe! I miss it so much...
"O death, why thou hast done it? O grave, is it buried in thine cold heart?"
E pregando e piangendo io mi consumi
Rendetemi il mio ben, rendetemi il mio ben, Tartarei Numi.
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Sorry, I mean:
O death, why thou hast done it? O grave, is it buried in thine heart?"
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Or should it be: O, death, why hast thou done it? ...
Also,
E pregando e piangendo io mi consumi
Rendetemi il mio ben, rendetemi il mio ben, Tartarei Numi.
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And praying and crying I consume myself,
Give me back my beloved, Gods of the Underworld
Of course, from Monteverdi's Orpheo and Euridice
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Re: loose fitting head joint
14:16 on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Re: loose fitting head joint
14:45 on Thursday, November 1, 2007
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