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Rand al'Thor

5:16 AM

Congratulations @GarethRees on 30,000 reputation!

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Spagirl

9:37 AM

@GarethRees let’s see if I can blatantly steal Ancient Sword Rage’s artwork…

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Bookworm

11:16 AM

Q: What does the word "seem" mean in these lines of Shakespeare?

In Shakespeare's Othello 3.1.26, the Clown answers Cassio: She is stirring, sir; if she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her. where the verb "seem" makes me confused. The common usage "To be suitable to" (OED IV.I) or "To have a semblance or appearance" (OED IV.II) may not befit th...

CowperKettle

11:31 AM

> “Heart Book” from c.1550 is a collection of 83 Danish love ballads collected at the court of King Christian III.

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Bookworm

12:55 PM

Q: What does Regan mean by "square of sense" in King Lear?

The exact meaning of the following phrase in bold is not clear to me. In the first scene of King Lear, Regan utters these words to her father with flattery. I'm not sure but I think I read somewhere that "the most precious square of sense" refers to "the four nobler senses". But what does "square"...

william-shakespeare king-lear

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Tsundoku

2:11 PM

Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves on Brain Pickings.

bobble

2:53 PM

Would it be appropriate to use orthography for an identification-request which centers largely on the use of capitalization? literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2807/…

AncientSwordRage

3:07 PM

@bobble seems very appropriate from reading the tag wikis

Rand al'Thor

4:04 PM

@Spagirl Congrats on the silver tag badge!

You're only the third person to get one on the whole site, after Gareth and Tsundoku.

I'm a wee bit behind you to hopefully become the fourth soon :-)

Spagirl

5:03 PM

@Randal'Thor thank you! I didn’t even know I was close until you mentioned it. I wasn’t aware I answered so many ‘meaningful’ questions.

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Rand al'Thor

7:00 PM

@bobble I would say no, as it's not a question about orthography. Would we use e.g. translation for an ID question about a translated work, even if its translation was so memorable as to be the main distinctive feature of the question?

Rand al'Thor

7:14 PM

@Spagirl Another target for you: if this quarter's rep rates stay consistent, you'll overtake Matt Thrower by the end of the year and @AncientSwordRage will need to rent another plane.

AncientSwordRage

@Randal'Thor I think if the translation style was required for the identification... Maybe?

@Randal'Thor they get expensive fast

Spagirl

7:37 PM

@Randal'Thor that’s a very large ‘if’…

Rand al'Thor

8:13 PM

At least another 800 rep to make Lit your top site would be nice :-)

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Bookworm

9:16 PM

Q: Which Premchand stories are written in Hindi and which in Urdu?

The Indian writer Premchand started off writing in Urdu, and started writing Hindi stories later in his career. According to Wikipedia: In 1914, Munshi Premchand started writing in Hindi (Hindi and Urdu are considered different registers of a single language Hindustani, with Hindi drawing much o...