Someone did this and then They did that.....?

[Lord Jim]

Being wrong is being wrong no matter what

Right. And you're wrong.

[Rick]

I abuse any language especialy the English/Amercian language as much as I possibly can

[Gob]

You've never read Samuel Clemens. Apparently.


Worth a look.


"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
Mark Twain

If you're up to it.



Yrs,
Rubato

I didn't realise he wrote jokes for christmas crackers too.

[Big RR]

LOL; a tip of the hat Gob.

[Gob]

Note that Rubato states; "You've never read Samuel Clemens. Apparently," (I have,) as justification for his statement; "Someone who used the language to better effect than all English monarchs together."

Now can anyone point to a better example of rubato level stupidity than "(Mark Twain was) someone who used the language to better effect than all English monarchs together."

How does one put the combined writings of all the English Monarchs together to weigh against the quality of Twain's writings?

How does one judge such writings as;

But that others may understand how false and wicked his doctrine is, lest they might be so far deceived as to have a good opinion of him, I doubt not but in all parts there are very learned men . . who have much more clearly discovered the same, than can be shown by me. And if there be any who desire to know this strange work of his, I think I have sufficiently made it apparent to them. For seeing by what has been said, it is evident to all men what sacrilegious opinions he has of the sacrament of our Lord's Body, from which the sanctity of all the other sacraments flow: who would have doubted, if I had said nothing else, how unworthily, without scruple, he treats all the rest of the sacraments? Which, as you have seen, he has handled in such sort that he abolishes and destroys them all, except Baptism alone. . . .
What everybody believes, he alone by his vain reason laughs at, denouncing himself to admit nothing but clear and evident Scriptures. And these, too, if alleged by any against him, he either evades by some private exposition of his own, or else denies them to belong to their own authors. None of the Doctors are so ancient, none so holy, none of so great authority in treating of Holy Writ, but this new doctor, this little saint, this man of learning, rejects with great authority.

THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began--

How does one judge the writings of a stately court against a popular American novel?

Only someone of rubato's pigshithickheadedness would even presume to.

Sometimes I wonder if he's faking his dumb act, but he's to consistent in his high quality of ignorance.

His ignorance and childishness are unparallelled.