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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006Evolution?
Who says we aren't evolving? I used to think we weren't, but I've been considering retracting that opinion after reading this CNN.com headline: "Supermodel Heidi Klum gives birth to Seal's son". At least it was a seal and not a sea lion.  SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." > Who says we aren't evolving? I used to think we weren't, but I've > been considering retracting that opinion after reading this CNN.com > headline: > > "Supermodel Heidi Klum gives birth to Seal's son". At least it was a > seal and not a sea lion. ------------------ Maybe it was the Great Silkie of Sule Skerry? DianeE > "dontbother" <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote >> Who says we aren't evolving? I used to think we weren't, but >> I've been considering retracting that opinion after reading [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > ------------------ > Maybe it was the Great Silkie of Sule Skerry? I saw a movie about that last year, only the silkie was a woman. I didn't know they came in both varieties. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." >> "dontbother" <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >I saw a movie about that last year, only the silkie was a woman. I >didn't know they came in both varieties. Selkie-folk are either male or female. Ask any Orkney Islander. The Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry was male. In the ballad, written down (but not written by) Dr Otto Andersson, the selkie sings: "I am a man upon the land; I am a selchie on the sea, and when I'm far frae ev'ry strand, my dwelling is in Sule Skerry." Joan Baez sings a beautiful version of this. At least I think so. You may be thinking of the movie _The Secret of Roan Inish_, in which the selkie was female. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > dontbother <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote: >>> "dontbother" <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Selkie-folk are either male or female. Ask any Orkney Islander. Next time I'm on Orkney Island, I will. > The Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry was male. In the ballad, > written down (but not written by) Dr Otto Andersson, the selkie > sings: "I am a man upon the land; I am a selchie on the sea, > and when I'm far frae ev'ry strand, my dwelling is in Sule > Skerry." Joan Baez sings a beautiful version of this. At > least I think so. Could be, but I don't remember that particular ballad. > You may be thinking of the movie _The Secret of Roan Inish_, in > which the selkie was female. I don't remember the name. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." >>> "dontbother" <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > You may be thinking of the movie _The Secret of Roan Inish_, in which > the selkie was female. An earthly nouriss sits and sings, And aye, she sings by lily wean, And little ken I my bairnis father, Far less the land where he dwells in. For he came one night to her bed feet, And a grumly guest, I'm sure was he, Saying "Here am I, thy bairnis father, Although I be not comely. I am a man upon the land, I am a silkie on the sea, And when I'm far and far frae land, My home it is in Sule Skerrie." And he had ta'en a purse of gold, And he had placed it upon her knee, Saying: "Give it to my little young son, And take thee up they nurse's fee." "And it shall come to pass on a summer's day, When the sun shines bright on every stane, I'll come and fetch my little son, and teach him how to swim the foam." "And ye shall marry a gunner good, And a right fine gunner I'm sure he'll be, And the very first shot that e'er he shoots, Will kill both my young son and me." I'm sure we've all had our share of grumly guests but, hopefully, none smelling of fish. SignatureJohn Dean Oxford >Who says we aren't evolving? I used to think we weren't, but I've >been considering retracting that opinion after reading this CNN.com >headline: > >"Supermodel Heidi Klum gives birth to Seal's son". At least it was a >seal and not a sea lion. The son's name is " Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel". What's that all about then? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > dontbother <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > The son's name is " Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel". What's > that all about then? Indecision? SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." >> dontbother <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Indecision? Compensation for their shortchanging number one son, "Henry", isn't it? > dontbother wrote: >>> dontbother <dontbother@mushmail.mom> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Compensation for their shortchanging number one son, "Henry", > isn't it? I thought his name was "State" or maybe "Harbor". But the article says they have a dughter by the wife's first marriage SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." |
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