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Date Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 4:31:49
Author: Evil Ilse
Subject: Re: Perhaps she meant "he who washes *not*"?
In reply to: MST Meg 's message, "Re: Perhaps she meant "he who washes *not*"?" on Tue, Apr 13 2004, 20:12:56

>>"He who washes none."
>>
>>I think this is just bad grammar, "he who washes not"
>>would make sense in the context, and it's a sort of
>>old-fashioned phrase, one modern kid might well get
>>wrong.
>
>Yes, that must be it! It goes with the rest of the
>fanfic, this girl loves (very contrived)
>namecalling/nicknames. She calls him "sir poops a lot"
>or something, and he keeps on calling her a "know it
>all".

Maybe she thought 'none' meant the same as 'nothing'.

I have to admit, I kind of like the archaic namecalling. It sounds intelligent and snarky, without being too insulting.The grammar mistake diminishes the value though. It's no fun if the insultee doesn't get the insult ;)

-- just a side thought: can't you use the confusion over this line in your MST? The fact that no one understands it is probably he funniest thing about it :)

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