“To business that we love we rise betime,/And go ‘t with delight.”
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (IV.iv.31-2)
A quick, discursive note about diction:
Prompted by a TFG post (and link), I was thinking about decades of interaction with foreigners. I could, at one time, fake a British accent well enough, when the time required it, good enough to fool the guys in the pub. Until. Until I used the informal of second person plural of a certain pronoun. Gave me away every time. And to me, it’s formal, not informal. Just the way it is with my diction.
I have, at this time, a Central Texas drawl, or so it would seem. That can be tempered by time and and location, but the roots are there. Early education and language studies (French on more than one occasion) plus time in foreign lands changed my accent, but even back in the day, I tended to drawl a little.
I remember a cocktail party, and the guy talking was trying to be ever so “European,” when, in fact, he was just another guy born in Dallas. I suspect, over time, accents change.
Maybe it’s something in the water.
The iTune contest?
It’s all about who’s going to take down industry leader, iTunes.
Then again, with online commerce - I’ve been here since - technically - 1994 - the simple model might be the best. Not too many choices. Choices, yes.
It’s all about price points, and what I keep seeing is that I’m rather inexpensive.
Laeti edimus qui nos subigant!
