Embarassment and Frustration

  He just finished misquoting the phrase about a rose by any other "name".  Wouldn't an English teacher whose read the text enough times at least know that this phrasing is a common error?  Anyway, I don't want to make this ugly...I'd be satisfied if he'd just find a new object of "affection". 

flags.  I've avoided you for some time...you don't rattle me.  you make yourself unnecessarily important by popping in my face all the time. 

hahaha!

hahahahahaha  dude Afaf, the egg is all over your face.  keep telling yourself how settled you are.  it's pretty awesome.  did i lose you there?

Umm...ok.

both word and name are used quite regularly...  

but i know that.  once again, you only know what you know.  you're right, word is probably most "correct,"  but several published editions of will shakespeare's works use "name".  here's a link:

http://www.bartleby.com/70/3822.html

this was taken from the Oxford Shakespeare published in 1914.

sorry Afaf.

and to be fair here's a link using "word"

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_80.html

both are used regularly.

 did that really shut you up?  that's all i had to do?  nice.

Misquoting Willie is like the Blues.  It's a living, evoloving, good time.  How many, when quoting Hamlet say, "Alas poor Yorick, I new him well." or instead of "well", "Horatio."

Also:  "methinks he dost protest too much."  

Willie wrote, "The Lady doth protest too much, methinks."  It is almost always miquoted as, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much."  I, for one, like the misquote better. 

Kind of the same way I like Lightnin' Hopkins version of "Church Bell" better than Blind Lemon Jefferson's.

What's in a "word" ? That which we call a "word"

By any other name would smell as sweet;

(Lol)

hehe...  don't get too comfy here Atos, Afaf will starting gushing again.

I am going to sleep soon, now be good kids while mommy is not here.

To sleep:  perchance to dream:  ay, there's the rub?

Don't do it man!  You have so much to live for.

will S wrote: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

you're a gem (or is it jem?  haha!) Afaf.  keep up the good work.

but flags?!  dost and doth are so similar!

well...  kinda

from the OED:

  b. 2nd pers. sing. doest (dust), dost (dst).
  Forms: 1 dst, dést (North. dóas, dóæs, dóes), 2-4 dest, 2- dost (3-7 dust, 4-5 doist, 7 doost; 3-4 north. dos, 4 dose, duse, 5 doyse), 6- doest (6 doeste, doiste, 7 do'st). In late use, the form doest is confined to the principal verb, dost is usually auxiliary.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 2 onne u doas ælmessa. Ibid. John vi. 30 æt u doæs. c975 Rushw. G. ibid., Hwæt u does. c1000 ÆLFRIC Gen. xii. 18 Hwi dest u wi me swa? c1160 Hatton G. John vi. 30 Hwæt dest u? c1175 Lamb. Hom. 23 a dedbote e u dest. Ibid. 67 ef u us dost. c1200 ORMIN 15587 u..att dost tuss ise dedess. 1297 R. GLOUC. (1724) 428 ou ne dust not as e wyse. c1300 Havelok 2390 Wat dos u here? 1375 Cantic. de Creatione 230 ou vs dest so mochel wo. c1385 CHAUCER L.G.W. 315 What dostow here? c1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 3 So thynke me that thou doyse. 1534 TINDALEJohn vii. 3 Thy workes that thou doest [so all 16-17th c. vv., Wyclif doist]. Ibid. ix. 34 And dost thou teache vs? [so 1539 Cranm.; but 1557 Geneva, 1582Rhem., 1611 have ‘doest’]. 1610 SHAKES. Temp. I. ii. 78 Do'st thou attend me? 1611 BIBLE 1 Kings xix. 9 What doest thou here, Eliiah?  John xiii. 27 That thou doest [TINDALE dost], doe quickly. 1653 HOLCROFT Procopius IV. 153 Doest thou run after thine owne Master? Mod. poetic. Why dost thou weep?

    c. 3rd pers. sing. does (dz); arch. doth (d), doeth (du).
  Forms: 1 (d, dóæ), dé, 2-5 de (2 dea, die, 3 dee, 5-6 dethe), 3-5 do (4 doith, 5-6 dooth), 5- doth, 6-7 doeth (6 dothe). 1north. dóas, dóes, 3-4 north. dos, dus, (4 dotz, 5 duse, doys), 5-6 dois, dose (6 doose), 6- does. . 6- do (doe). The orig. northern formdoes superseded doth, doeth, in 16-17th c. in general use; the latter being now liturgical and poetic. The form he do is now s.w. dial., and he don't is vulgar.

 c1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. v. 19 Se e hit de [c950 Lindisf. G. doe]. a1175 Cott. Hom. 233 Hwat de sí moder hire bearn?..hi hit..die under hire arme.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Al swa me dea bi e deade. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 53 He do alse holie write sei. c1320 Cast. Love 1468 Vnwrestlyche he dee.1340 Ayenb. 68 In al et god de. c1340 Cursor M. 11838 (Trin.) is caitif..Doo [v.r. dos] him leches for to seke. 1382 WYCLIF John iii. 21 Ech man that doith yuele. c1500 Melusine lxii. 371 Yf a man dooth as wel as he can. 1559 Primer in Priv. Prayers (1851) 35 God..Which doth all in order due. 1569GOLDING Heminges Post. 27 The thing that Christ dothe here, is that he dothe Peter to understand. 1587 GOLDING De Mornay xi. (1617) 166 He doeth thee to onderstand. 1588 SHAKES. L.L.L. I. ii. 50 It doth amount to one more then two. 1721 St. German's Doctor & Stud. 21 He that doth against them, doth against justice. 1819 SHELLEY Cenci IV. iv. 4, I must speak with Count Cenci; doth he sleep?

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war--

Woof!

P.S. I'm doing this thread only because I need the extra credit due to my bad grade in the previous literature thread.

goldendog, your 87% is now a 90%.  well done.

Goldendog has come hot from hell.

Is it all over, yet? phew! I've been outside the door waiting for the recently wed couple to stop throwing plates at each other.

no no wait!

Now is the winter of our incontinence

A plaque on both your houses.