Making Light :: Foiled and embossed again :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Thu, 16 May 2002 23:56:08 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Foiled and embossed again Don't ask me how it is I wound up reading a collection of Irish curses, but I loved this one.... Don't ask me how it is I wound up reading a collection of Irish curses, but I loved this one.... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html Foiled and embossed again -- comment #1 from John Farrell comment from John Farrell on 16.May.02 My favorite is still the shortest: "Bad cess to you."

Not quite a curse, but a wonderful expression, which I know how to say in Irish (but have trouble remembering how to write):

"He's taking two sides of the road with him..."

Best,

John F

]]> <p>Posted May 16, 2002 12:43 PM by John Farrell</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html#439 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html#439 Thu, 16 May 2002 12:43:16 -0500 Foiled and embossed again -- comment #2 from ers comment from ers on 16.May.02 A most elegant malediction. I shall read it aloud to StoryReading (a group of nominal adults who gather once weekly to read aloud, ostensibly children's stories, but we wander far afield. We've read Stephenson's _Zodiac_ as a chapter book, as well as _The Phantom Tollbooth_, Chitty ^2 Bang ^2, and other classics. Katya Reimann has been a StoryReader; so has Vicki Rosenzweig. And this is just the sort of thing to read aloud).

]]> <p>Posted May 16, 2002 11:56 PM by ers</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html#447 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/000219.html#447 Thu, 16 May 2002 23:56:08 -0500