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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i liked all of those but the last was my favorite, for its intrinsic merits but also for teaching me the use of "thou" as a verb and because i am (rather lazily) campaigning to bring back the use of 2 distinct forms of "you" in english (singular / informal vs. plural / formal).  |
I penned that one in a frenzy, Zelda. I was called in as an interpreter for a Refugee Determination Hearing, and my case was cancelled. The way things work meant that I would still get paid... assuming I sat around doing nothing for 4 hours.
Just for such an eventuality I had brought a recent letter from a friend to read, reread, and possible answer. But, I seem to have temporarily misplaced the paper, and it seemed to me this other interpreter used it as scrap paper to write a phone number and walked off with it.
Amusingly enough though, after eyeing this "thouable thief" of mine for 10-15 minutes, somebody found the paper for me--it had just fallen down on the ground by the phone I had been using.
She was innocent! But grand for this little poem.
