Re: Do Eskimos count like New Guineans?

On 21 Jan, 23:11, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 20, 11:06 pm, richard01 <richardparke...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 20 Jan, 21:26, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Snip all this - sorry, Uncle, if I done it wrong.

I really don't know how you linguists get your knickers in such a
twist about such things - did you honestly think I was actually
attributing "poor little sod" to an up-state New Yorker in 1823?

If the poem was written, as claimed decades later, by Clement Clark
Moore, he was not "an upstate [no hyphen] New Yorker." He was a dour,
very wealthy landowner and divine, on some of whose land -- the name
of his holdings was Chelsea, which is now the name of the entire
neighborhood -- the General Theological Seminary built its campus. He
also owned a considerable tract in what is now the Borough of Queens,
New York City.

If he only _claimed_ to be the writer, decades later, what's the
point
of giving me the details of his life history? He doesn't seem to have
been the original writer, but a miserable old fart sitting in his
property holdings in New York, claiming credit for something he didn't
do.

Did he actually write anything of any consequence at all?



You were deliberately applying an offensive phrase to a harmless
reindeer, to whom, moreover, you imputed inferior ability in carrying
out his assigned duties.

Obviously, you don't understand the original parent language - 'poor
little sod' - wherever it came from, is no longer an offensive term in
real English, but a sympathetic one.

If he's in the middle of the team, he can't do anything else than keep
up with the rest. To suggest that saying he sweated is imputing an
inferior ability to him can only be a comment by someone who has never
done a stroke of manual (or pedal) work in his life.


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Repeat again:

Why don't you just stop sniping at miserable little slips by others
and be a bit more generous with your obvious knowledge and expertise?

regards

Richard

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