herdrick · HackerTrans

2개월 전discuss

non-paywall link?

3개월 전discuss

So don't feel bad, is my point :)

3개월 전discuss

> Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)?

It doesn't. It means there's a lot of mud. It might help if you had the rest of the paragraph in front of you. It sets the scene for us with a bunch of sentence fragments -- bullet points, we would say. Here's the beginning of each of them:

    Michaelmas term lately over...
    Implacable November weather. 
    As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired... 
    Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle...
    Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. 
    Horses, scarcely better

... and so on.

And yes, modern audiences aren't attuned to biblical references.

herdrick

6개월 전discuss

Good stuff. Are star count and forks etc. the criteria for inclusion of repos? Lots of repos result in "Repository not found".

herdrick

8개월 전discuss

You:

- can read Old English

- find Beowulf, in Old English, dull

... how did this happen? Isn't reading Beowulf a primary motivation, if not the primary motivation, for the hard work of learning Old English?

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