On 29 May 2003 at 6:59, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:59:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I too am an advocate of old-style spelling. Unfortunately, this keyboard
lacks eth, thorn, etc.
vim probably allows access via the Ctrl-K thingies?
TH and th, D- and d- on two
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
complaint is that it was performed in modern dress but the language
hadn't been updated
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:41, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
complaint is that it was performed in
Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
complaint is that it was performed in modern dress but the language
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:51, Jasper McCrea wrote:
What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can only think
of Forbidden Planet offhand.
Romeo Juliet - West Side Story
Jasper McCrea wrote:
Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
complaint is that it was performed in
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:59:44PM +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote:
http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William
If there was no copyright expiration date his descendants would be pretty
wealthy.
If he had any still alive.
And if none of them had sold the rights to Disney.
R
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:51:22PM +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote:
Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
Chris Andrews wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:51:22PM +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote:
What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can only think
of Forbidden Planet offhand.
There's also 'From A Jack To A King' by the same author, with the same
music and cheesy modified
What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can
only think
of Forbidden Planet offhand.
I've come in a bit late here so forgive me if this has been mentioned
already but...
Peter Greenaway's Prospero's books seams to fit into this catergory. A
pretty cool score to go with
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote:
Jasper McCrea wrote:
What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can
only think of Forbidden Planet offhand.
http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William
to answer my own question.
Just to add a couple that I don't see on
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Chris Devers wrote:
Heh -- citing Shakespeare as a source is one thing, but --
115. Wars of the Roses, The (1989) TV Series (writer)
-- goes a bit far, I think :)
I didn't see him listed for Shakespeare in Love either, though quite a few
lines in it are obviously
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:03:52AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Random idea 4023: ipdb
Internet Perl Database, featuring all perl code and coders. You can
then play seven degrees of Leon Brocard.
In the same vein at least,
http://www.perlcabal.com/real.html
Paul
--
Paul Makepeace
On 28 May 2003 14:56:01 +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:51, Jasper McCrea wrote:
What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can
only think of Forbidden Planet offhand.
Romeo Juliet - West Side Story
That's what I was thinking of, but it kept
On Tue, 27 May 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
And a quick Mac question - on this 'ere keyboard, the numeral three shares
a key with the pound symbol and the hash symbol. The numeral 2 shares it
with the at symbol and the euro symbol. Why, out of those six characters,
are 2, 3, at, euro, and
From: Peter Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5/27/03 10:02:36 AM
Standardize, serialize -- the Americans have it right in
this case. The s/ize/ise/ is a fairly recent anglicism -
as recent as 50 years ago in fact. For some further
information on this, check out your friendly neighbourhood
It's true that the z-s tranformation is recent and that the
'z' spellings were in use here when the pilgrims left, but I'm
not sure that fact makes them any more correct than the generally
accepted 's' spellings. Since when waa antiquity a measure of
correctness in spelling or grammer?
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:02 +0100 Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Oh, and isn't it about time the Euro was adopted in the UK? I mean COME
ON.
We can't possibly adopt the Euro in the UK until my vt220 displays it
correctly!
-Dom (a paid up member of the
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:43 +0100 Steve Keay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:27:52AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
The yanks will have to adopt metric one of these days. MUHAHA
I'd settle for them having the right Imperial units to start with.
...and ISO paper sizes. And
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
Or would you prefer that we all used the language of the Canterbury
Tales? Or Piers Plowman? Or Beowulf?
Well it's funny you might say that
/J\
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:47 +0100 Paul Makepeace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm an advocate, despite being English holding a British passport, of
the old style spelling (i.e. the one used in the US). -ise is a minority
case used by a small island of far fewer than a certain large
continent.
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