/2011/06/03/from-little-acorns/ Exegesis Hermeneutics Flux Capacitor of Truthiness Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:36:53 +0000 /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns#comment-3369 […] http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2011/06/from-little-acorns.html http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2018/04/enough-with-debt-already-so-who-keeps.html Skeptical Humanities Now that I have your attention, I regret to inform you that he didn’t have one. On several occasions recently, sometimes in conversations about censorship, I have heard people say that Chaucer used the word “cunt.” Indeed, Wikipedia says, “The word appears several times in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1390) in bawdy contexts, but it does not appear to be considered obscene at this point, since it is used openly.” Similarly, RationalWiki proclaims that “Chaucer used the word unblushingly in his Canterbury Tales.” Oddly, these statements are followed by quotes from The Canterbury Tales that belie them, for the word that Chaucer uses is not “cunt,” but “queynte.” “Queint,” as a noun, literally means “a clever or curious device or ornament” (Middle English Dictionary) or an “elegant, pleasing thing” (Riverside Chaucer). When used to refer to a woman’s genitalia, it is both… View original post 664 more words […]

]]> /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns/comment-page-1/#comment-3367 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:31:58 +0000 /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns#comment-3367 […] http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2011/06/from-little-acorns.html http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2018/04/enough-with-debt-already-so-who-keeps.html Skeptical Humanities Now that I have your attention, I regret to inform you that he didn’t have one. On several occasions recently, sometimes in conversations about censorship, I have heard people say that Chaucer used the word “cunt.” Indeed, Wikipedia says, “The word appears several times in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1390) in bawdy contexts, but it does not appear to be considered obscene at this point, since it is used openly.” Similarly, RationalWiki proclaims that “Chaucer used the word unblushingly in his Canterbury Tales.” Oddly, these statements are followed by quotes from The Canterbury Tales that belie them, for the word that Chaucer uses is not “cunt,” but “queynte.” “Queint,” as a noun, literally means “a clever or curious device or ornament” (Middle English Dictionary) or an “elegant, pleasing thing” (Riverside Chaucer). When used to refer to a woman’s genitalia, it is both… View original post 664 more words […]

]]> /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:44:47 +0000 /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns#comment-1595 […] Roger Lewis • From Little Acorns. Or : Quo plurinum posset Lex mathmatica http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-little-acorns.html […]

]]> /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:34:04 +0000 /2011/06/03/from-little-acorns#comment-7 Paul Budnik's Transcriopt and notes
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