At 9:10 PM -0400 02/11/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>OK, no one has commented on spelling lately so maybe this shouild go into the
>BRIN FAQ: Why can't Bob spell?
A line by line deconstruction follows:
>S;elling
Note the capitalist undertones.
>is the provence
Ah, provence. Classist French tendencies. Sa-bot!
>of narrow minds and nimble fingers.
Alliteration used, as if to suggest a-literate author.
>I have a fat mind
Note use of AfroAmerican English slang (even misspelled it's clearly a
"phat" mind, he means.)
>which whirls thoughts faster than my fat
>fingers can type.
Idiomatic extension of earlier slang inference in continued reliance on
"gangsta" rap-style in reference to slang and to spatial metaphors related
to discursive forcefulness and prowess beyond bounded limitations such as
biology and typing ability.
>Like George junior, i rely
Subconscious admission of repeated lying made more obvious by direct
reference to a politician.
>on you guys to get mi dryft
Mi, being the French denotation for the pitch normally called "E" in Anglo
music notation, and the drift of E being Eb, Bob is desperately trying to
convince us that E is not flat. Poor fellow.
Gord
