05 June 2006

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.

7 Comments:

Blogger Dr. S said...

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.

6/06/2006 12:32 AM  
Blogger Poking-Stick Man said...

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?) ;)

6/06/2006 12:35 AM  
Blogger Thomas Knauer said...

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.

6/06/2006 12:11 PM  
Blogger Thomas Knauer said...

Dr. S:
How about [d]Friday???

6/06/2006 12:12 PM  
Blogger Dr. S said...

Oh hell yeah. Or [.d]/Friday.

6/07/2006 10:57 PM  
Blogger Poking-Stick Man said...

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. :)

6/09/2006 2:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You might use for Friday - dies Veneris.

6/10/2006 1:19 PM  

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