Thursday, May 21, 2020

And tell Billy Shakespeare the news


Funny thing, I'm writing lecture notes right now for an on-line British lit survey course. I've just gotten up to Chaucer.

Trump can make gibberish out of the simplest statement.  And here's the problem with the tendency to summarize what a public official says:

Trump spoke gibberish.  It shouldn't be translated into English.

1 comment:

  1. Aw, he's just little Sally Sunshine who will certainly declare it as winning when we pass 2000000 deaths. I wish someone would get him to say the Mr Dooley line "people are dying who never died before." Though it might be too long for him to learn by rote.

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