Opinions Aren't Allowed

[Guest The Flying Dutchman]

He's only done it about a million times now.

[Guest godthedog]

do you have ANYTHING left in your repertoire other than the "this board sucks" card and the "ha ha, i had you all along" card?

No, I made a conscious effort to get this reaction out of all of you. Whether you want to believe that or not is irrelevent, you're all just so predictable.

 

Translation: no.

didn't think so. and as i said, if you're that bored, go read something.

 

here, i'll make it easier for you: read faust, & tell me what you think.

[Guest The Flying Dutchman]

oooOOOOooohhh, Faust!

[Guest Memoirs of an Invisible Chevy]

I appreciate that you care so much to rehabilitate me, gtd.

[Guest godthedog]

hey, that's what i'm here for. if i don't, who will?

[Guest Memoirs of an Invisible Chevy]

hey, that's what i'm here for. if i don't, who will?

Way to take the initiative!! That link was sorta helpful, but I don't care much for Chaucer.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Would it be silly of me to ask what Chaucher has to do with Faust?

 

I may have slept through most of my Literary Landmarks course, but I don't recall Chaucher having anything to do with Faust. Especially since it does say right on the site that Faust was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in 1808. I can't recall exact dates on Chaucher's writing, but it's a LOT older than that. So old, in fact, that it's damn-near unreadable. I hate Chaucer.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

I appreciate that you care so much to rehabilitate me, gtd.

There's only one way to rehabilitate a troll. Appreciate this.

[Guest HungryJack]

And it would appear the hammer has been dropped on ol' Banky.

 

woo-hoo.

[Guest razazteca]

Simma Down Now!

[Guest Youth N Asia]

And it would appear the hammer has been dropped on ol' Banky.

 

woo-hoo.

I'm shocked it didn't happen sooner really. Banky's actually been on good behavior as of late

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Yeah, too bad. :lol:

[Guest godthedog]

Would it be silly of me to ask what Chaucher has to do with Faust?

 

I may have slept through most of my Literary Landmarks course, but I don't recall Chaucher having anything to do with Faust. Especially since it does say right on the site that Faust was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in 1808. I can't recall exact dates on Chaucher's writing, but it's a LOT older than that. So old, in fact, that it's damn-near unreadable. I hate Chaucer.

whoa there, tiger. homer's many times older than chaucer, and is still compulsively readable. especially the odyssey.

 

marney's a mod? when did that happen?

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Yeah, I'd like to know too.

[Guest godthedog]

so who banned him?

[Guest MaxPower27]

Tom or Dames, I think.

[Guest Danny Dubya v 2.0]

He'll be back. Just like Jubuki was.

 

IP bans mean nothing anymore.

[Guest DrTom]

Actually, Dames and I both got him, I think. Dames banned the Chevy name and maybe a few others, while I whacked his IP and four other screen names. It's rare to have a tandem banning like that, but we logged into the Admin tool within seconds of each other and went to work.

[Guest JudasSault]

Actually, Dames and I both got him, I think. Dames banned the Chevy name and maybe a few others, while I whacked his IP and four other screen names. It's rare to have a tandem banning like that, but we logged into the Admin tool within seconds of each other and went to work.

what did banky do that was so wrong?

 

p.s, I can't be bothered to change out of gimmick. bite my shiny daffodil ass

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

GodtheDog: Not that I find Chaucher unreadable in a "God, what a bad author" way, I just have a hard time understanding the English used. The English language of Chaucher's day was substantially different from ours, as you probably know.

 

I just do NOT enjoy reading things when you need a whole other glossary of the English language on hand just to understand the bloody thing. That's all I meant by it - no offense to Chaucher.

 

Thanks for the link though. I never actually have read the Odyssey as such, though I do enjoy Greek mythology. I know what it's about and everything but...yeah, maybe now I can find the time to *read* it.

 

Thanks.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Actually, Dames and I both got him, I think.  Dames banned the Chevy name and maybe a few others, while I whacked his IP and four other screen names.  It's rare to have a tandem banning like that, but we logged into the Admin tool within seconds of each other and went to work.

what did banky do that was so wrong?

 

p.s, I can't be bothered to change out of gimmick. bite my shiny daffodil ass

Trolling, and generally being a cock.

[Guest godthedog]

wait...are you saying that you had to read chaucer in the ORIGINAL, almost-german old english?

[Guest AM The Kid]

Whoooaaa, Banky's gone. Interesting.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

::chimes in::

 

I had to read Chaucer in the middle English. I think that's become fairly standard for literary surveys, and *definitely* for the Chaucer seminars at my university. It was amazing. It's impossible at first, but just get yourself in a comfortable chair and read it aloud, and the things you find are fan-frickin'-tastic.

 

Beowulf, we used the recent Seamus Heaney translation. But there's a separate class that works soley on translating it out of the archaic old English...

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Heaney translated Beowulf? Huh. I thought The Spirit Level was pretty good; I'll have to take a look at that translation.

[Guest godthedog]

i'm still waiting on that english translation of 'finnegans wake'.

[Guest EricMM]

Both Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Goethe's Faustus are great reads.

 

I've always been saying go-eth, but it's something like goat-thay... er.

 

Either way read the middle english/new english classics!

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

Hmmmm, a thread split between Banky memorial and dissection of Chaucers work.

Who said this folder is crap nowadays!

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

GTD: I assume it's the non-translated stuff (It doesn't say anywhere here "Translated by" or anything) and it looks like this:

 

Whan that April with his showres soote

The droughte of March hath perced to the root

And bathed every veine in swich licour

Of which vertu engendred is the flowr;

Whan Zephyrus eek with his sweete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

 

And so on. Unless it's an early translation (Which would be kinda silly) then I do believe this is the original.

 

But to say that I actually *read* it is kinda unfair. I have an uncanny knack for writing essays - I never paid attention in class, and rarely read anything, but I swear, I coulda shat on the paper and got at least a C+. It was weird, but I'm not really complaining.

 

(Though I probably will be when I realize that all this was important to other English classes...)

 

Oh, and Chave...

 

Hmmmm, a thread split between Banky memorial and dissection of Chaucers work.

Who said this folder is crap nowadays!

 

Banky did. But we can see how much his opinion counts now, can't we?

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

Oh, and Chave...

 

Hmmmm, a thread split between Banky memorial and dissection of Chaucers work.

Who said this folder is crap nowadays!

 

Banky did. But we can see how much his opinion counts now, can't we?

Touché The Metal Maniac.

 

Touché.