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- From: pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney)
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- Subject: Re: Irishly in L. Sprague DeCamp
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.124410.24730@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 12:44:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.195551.7129@news.vanderbilt.edu> <1992Dec19.004849.27586@u.washington.edu>
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- twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
- > vusl@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (VU Science Library) writes:
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- >>I am reading L. Sprague DeCamp's Lest Darkness Fall and I have a
- >>question. In talking about Ebenezer the Jew, DeCamp describes him
- >>as distressingly pious and says, "he did not eat at all, to put it
- >>Irishly, for fear of transgressing one of the innumerable rules of
- >>his sect." What does "Irishly" mean here?
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- >Probably refers to the use of extravagant exaggeration for the
- >purpose of making a point.
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- If it was Irishly, surely it'd be "he did not eat at all at all at all"?
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- P.
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