Him se yldesta andswarode; werodes wisa, wordhord onleac.
"That noblest of men answered him; the leader of the warrior band unlocked his wordhoard."
Saturday, March 07, 2009
"Almost"
I emerge briefly from midterm grading jail to amaze you with this sentence from one of the midterms:
Almost every work of literature has an example of the use of language.
Almost? I've been trying to figure out what that almost is doing there. Pop-up books, maybe? The international language of love? A picture being worth a thousand word?
It could have been worse, it could have started...."Websters dictionary defines literature as...."
ReplyDeleteI got scared for a minute: "Did I write that? Surely not..."
ReplyDeleteFun Fact: Thomas Hardy composed a novel in 1929 made up entirely of interesting smells.
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