DILATORINESS
Due to delays and distractions, detours and disruptions, I shall deviate from my daily duty of digital dissemintion until Friday.
Do not dismay.
Danke.
Do not dismay.
Danke.
05 June 2006
About Me
- Name: Thomas Knauer
- Location: Utica, New York, United States
has been dealing with HKPP since February 2008 and is finally getting around to writing his way through the experience and his continuing recovery.
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7 Comments:
It is truly too bad that "Friday" doesn't start with a D. Could you spell it "dFriday"?
I hope that your days have gone well since our paths diverged.
Okay, I'll step up & be the resident smart-ass/pedant du jour.
Who shouldn't we dismay?
(That 10 days in July is starting to sound like a very long time right about now, isn't it?) ;)
Actually PSM, I do believe that in the sentence "Do not dismay." there is an implied "yourself" as the object. This is, to the best of my knowledge, quite akin to "Go away!" wherein "you evil pedant" is also implied.
This, for your information, in no way changes the unmitigated joy that July holds for the wife and me. And, I do believe, we shall even have a furnished guest room for you, complete with writing desk at which you may wax pedantic until the wee hours of the morn.
Dr. S:
How about [d]Friday???
Oh hell yeah. Or [.d]/Friday.
But can one really dismay oneself -- or does the modern use of the verb demand that the object refer to a person or thing not identical with the subject? I can find no examples of such a usage -- i.e. "Do not dismay yourself" -- later than the d'Renaissance. :)
You might use for Friday - dies Veneris.
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