What He Said
A new favourite blog – SwissMiss – has drawn Miss Mussel’s attention to this language manifesto from Stephen Fry. While his style is a little too frilly for its own good by times, on the whole, Fry & Mussel are singing from the same hymn sheet on this one.
Pedants beware. You don’t come out of this well.
Just in case you didn’t catch them, here’s the four questions Fry asks somewhere in the middle:
Do you bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? [No. Miss Mussel is not a rabid dog.]
Do you ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues on the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? [No. Miss Mussel loathes alliteration]
Do you ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? [One of life's greatest pleasures]
Do you use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those you talk to? [Aren't these things the reasons we tell jokes?]
On this day..
- Wednesday Links - 2009
- CD Review: Strange Toys - 2008
Gregory on 
Yassha on 
Tina on 
Rebecca on 
