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WCDT 21-25 March 2011 (1886-1890)
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Ferahgo the Assassin on 23 Mar 2011, 22:25 ---This made me laugh a lot. http://stats.grok.se/en/201103/puce
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...you've got to be kidding. Don't people know their tertiary colors anymore?
Although it reminds me of a story my daughter likes to tell from the Episcopal youth retreats she goes on... one of the counsilers is a huge gay young man, known affectionately as BGD (for Big Gay Dave). One of the rules is "no purple" (boys are blue, girls are pink, mix 'em and you got purple).
Well, BGD was holding hands and skipping (no lie, 6'4", 270 lbs, red beard, skipping) with my daughter and some of the older girls on their way to dinner. One of the other male campers shouted out "Hey, no purple!' and Dave, wothout missing a beat, turned and announced "Honey, this ain't purple, this is puce!"
--- Quote from: Coffee_Kaioken on 23 Mar 2011, 22:33 ---.... you actually read and understood Shakespeare literature? That shit was way too cryptic for me.
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Didn't you read any of it in high school? I started with julius Caesar when I was about 10, but I was really into ancient rome at the time, and it was an annotated version, which helped a great deal. Then there were the Shakespeare in the Park productions (in Buffalo, but they were really well done). Seeing it is often better than reading it, especially the comedies. And I've been in two prodductions, "As You Like It" in HS and "Midsummer Night's Dream" in college.
It's not for everyone, but the language isn't nearly as hard as most people make it out to be!
DSL:
Re: Shakespeare:
I began liking the Bard in high school (Julius Caesar and watching two oversexed English teachers react during a field trip to see Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet) but was always grateful I had a professor in college who explained Shakespeare wasn't some longhair artiste but a guy who wrote what sold in his day ... Then explained all the dirty jokes. The effect was to make me regard Shakespeare as accessible and not some rarefied incomprehensibility.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---...you've got to be kidding. Don't people know their tertiary colors anymore?
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Do people even learn tertiary colors as part of their normal education? I never did...I learned a few on my own, but I can honestly say that I've never seen anything that would make me say, "Wow, that thing is very puce" (or beige, another color I would never be able to ID). Take the color Bole for example (a reddish-brown color). When would you ever describe something as bole-colored? How many people do you know that would actually know what bole is?
Method of Madness:
I didn't until now. But now I want a reddish-brown bowl for obvious reasons (so I can eat soup with a fork from it).
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 23 Mar 2011, 23:01 ---Didn't you read any of it in high school?
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I remember more about Nineteen Eighty-Four than Romeo and Juliet.
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