Posted by Noa on November 16, 2000, at 17:33:02
In reply to We Were Too Silly and Fell Off the Bottom, posted by Mark H. on November 16, 2000, at 16:32:57
Is there any significance to the fact that it is "ire" that is missing from the last word appearing on PSB? I am referring to "savoir fa", with the letters i-r-e conspicuously gone!!! Someone has stolen our ire!!! Is nothing sacred? Are we not entitled to our ire? We, the babblers, have much to be ired about in our wretched lives, and we are entitled to a little ire once in a while!
Ironically, the thread about "savior faire" explains what this french phenomenon is---it is ireless existence, is it not? So, if "savior faire" is ireless existence, then what exactly is "savior fa"??? With the ire already removed from "savior faire", what are we to make of an ireless ireless phenomenon? Do two negatives make a positive? Is "savior fa" the opposite of "savior faire" ?
Please respond to this dire ire emergency situation!!!
poster:Noa
thread:48902
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20001115/msgs/48927.html