hron-rāde ≠ rail-road

[rootofnewt]

So, um, everyone gets into self-righteous shrieking bouts regarding one's spouse's lack of recognition when one mentions the whale-road, right?

And when one indignantly fetches out Beowulf, that's perfectly acceptable, right? And the beating of one's spouse with the text, that's okay?

Professor ExplodingCat thinks I'm wrong. He insists it's a mispronounciation of "railroad" and he's prepared to write a dissertation on this.

Then again, he thinks "nipples" are the most important theme/word in the Iliad, so I'm not sure anyone should trust him.



Everyone gets into conversations like this while reading ancient literature, right? It's a perfectly natural direction for a discussion about a water-oriented society and nautical themes.


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In other news . . .

explodingcat: I like how we have one quivering ball on the inside of the tree.
krasota: It's the squid. It makes it nervous.

Comments

[futabachan.livejournal.com]

Everyone gets into conversations like this while reading ancient literature, right?

My boyfriend and I do -- he has a doctorate in Anglo-Saxon literature.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

You egg him on, don't you? In alliterative metric verse? *nods*