just something I'm momentarily interested in.
One Sunda morn young Lambton went
A-fishing in the Wear;
An' catched a fish upon he's heuk (=caught) (=his hook)
He thowt leuk't vary queer. (=thought looked very strange)
But whatt'n a kind ov fish it was (=what kind of)
Young Lambton cudden't tell-
He waddn't fash te carry'd hyem, (=could not be bothered to carry it home)
So he hoyed it doon a well (=threw it down)
(wikipedia.....jabberwocky, linked to lambton worm)
...so the jabberwocky is a linnorm?
Wiki says he wrote most of the poem at Whitburn, near Sunderland, and may have been inspired by the local legend of the Lambton Worm.
I always liked to think he was inspired by futuristic educational toys sent back through a time machine
Stranger things have happened.
I've used the opening lines of "Jabberwocky" as an exercise to show students our innate ability to process language. The words are nonsense, but their position in a sentence and the way they're used still allow us to process their function if not their meaning. They're successful identifying nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives readily enough.
I've used the opening lines of "Jabberwocky" as an exercise to show students our innate ability to process language. The words are nonsense, but their position in a sentence and the way they're used still allow us to process their function if not their meaning. They're successful identifying nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives readily enough.
Interesting this is. Know that, I did not.
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Lewis Carroll?!?
You are all pedophiles!
Lewis Carroll?!?
You are all pedophiles!
It's a bit complicated.
Short version: If Carroll did half of what he did today he'd be in prison, but in his cultural milieu taking nude pictures of children (with their parents present) was somewhat socially acceptable as they were seen as sexless and innocent rather than of prurient interest. People put the things into Christmas cards.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Heck, taking pictures of pre-pubescent children (with their parents present) was socially acceptable when I was a kid 20 years ago (and it's bloody infuriating our society's gotten so sexualised that's no longer the case).
An adult man obsessed with a young girl's fantasy world? Carroll wasn't a pedophile, he was a brony.