October 5, 2006
And another thing...
I have to applaud The Cardinal on having a blog. I don't know exactly what role blogs are going to have in communications overall, but I know that they will have one (or several).
However, I have a couple of questions and comments:
1. Why the accent mark? The Irish love accent marks. Why? Aren't they a pre-to-il-literate people? Do they just like making little marks above random letters because they think they are pretty?
2. OK, Keilholtz. Why does your daughter have an accent mark?
3. Because she has a Portuguese name, and they are certainly a pre-to-il-literate people, especially after a whole day drinking wine and cerveja at the bullfights. Of course there are literate Portuguese, on the mainland. Islands sap something in the head.
4. And if your wife reads this?
5. She has, for the most part, given up on reading the blog. "I get enough of that in real life," she says.
6. Anyway, back to the Cardinal.
7. Using lol is silly when it is done by teenagers, irritating when done by college students, and out and out embarassing when done by a Prince of the Church. What if the Pope put one of those asinine IMHO's in an encyclical? I know, a blog is not an encyclical and a cardinal is not the Pope, but still. Dignity, man, and I'm not talking about the poofter group.
8. I can think of no worse penance than having to leave Rome to go to Boston.
9. No, Amarillo would be worse.
10. Far worse.
11. Amarillo is just about the ugliest place I have ever been to.
12. If you are from Amarillo and are offended, there is probably not much I can do for you at this point. Get out, if you still can. I'll pray for you.
13. Doesn't Cardinal Se'an have a ple'asant smile?
14. Wow! Look at m'e. I'm writing Irish.
15. No, it's only Irish if it's uncial.
16. And shamrocks.
Posted by erik at October 5, 2006 9:41 PMNope. Amarillo is WAY worse than Lubbock. I went to school in Lubbock. It's not very pretty, but the people are nice.
Amarillo might be the armpit of Texas.
And I even LOVE all things Texas.
Posted by: MamaT at October 10, 2006 8:44 AMAmarillo could be worse, it could be Lubbock...
Posted by: Tracy Fennell at October 8, 2006 7:18 PMThe Irish have lots of accents because they tried to lazily get away with too few letters for too many phonemes, and they have a puzzling reluctance to do anything interesting with consonants. The net result of such is more work, not only the need for accent marks, but also tons of silent vowels that do nothing except indicate how adjacent consonants should be pronounced (that's what the e is doing in Seán, showing that the s is really an sh).
Posted by: Atlantic at October 7, 2006 9:26 AMYou are right on about the accent mark and the use of lol.
The first time he used lol it was funny, but he uses it way too much.
Posted by: Jeff Miller at October 6, 2006 6:21 AM