Snowbound

Note to self:

When you think "Oh, it's snowing... if it hasn't stopped in an hour, you should move the car uphill before it's too late so you can get to work tomorrow in time"?
If it hasn't stopped in an hour, it's too late already to move the car without snow chains. (We actually have snow chains, guess why, but they're in Jörg's car, i.e., not here.) Jörg (and the snow chains) will be back around 1pm this night.

Until then, my car is parked at the roadside (because it's in fact so snowy that I can't even get it back into the driveway). I can but hope that no idiot takes the road so fast they crash into my car. Also, hope that the snow plough (if it comes at all - but it always comes when it does more damage than good, right?) doesn't wall it with snow.

GAH.

I like snow - winter without snow is fail - and February is a perfectly legitimate month for snow - but I cannot work like that. Ai! *dramatic gesturing*

Four more days and I'll exchange the snow for deserts and late summer. That's gonna be interesting!

Corpus Linguistics, or, all I need to know I learned from fandom

You know how they all go "Ah, in the olden days things were better, people had no bread but at least there were no flamewars on the internet" and such...

... and then you read the letters Sir Thomas More and William Tyndale sent to each other and it's all "YEAH WELL THAT'S NOT CANON" and "YEAH WELL IT IS BECAUSE JEROME SAYS SO" and "WELL WHAT DOES JEROME KNOW? ANYWAY READ THE BY-OUR-LADY ORIGINAL AND IT'S NOT CANON, NEENER NEENER" and "IS TOO, SHAME ON YOU SHAME SHAME !!1!ELEVENTY" and "SHAME ON YOU, LEARN HEBREW YOU N00B, PS: JESUS/MARY MAGDALEN=OTP" and "STFU I KNOW HEBREW AS WELL AS YOU OR BETTER KTHXDIE" and "O RLY?" and "ZOMG BURN!!!!!!". And don't even get me started on More vs. Luther.

... the more things change, the more they stay the same?

Thomas More's letters to the family are v. cute and fluffy, though. (And kind of heart-breaking when you know how it ended. ;_;)

Also, am tempted to do the Very Secret Diary of Edward VI. "Dear Diary, today I met the Swedish Embassador. V. boring bloke. Spit in his beer. I don't think he noticed*. Also, had Joan of Kent burnt for saying Mary was not a virgin. Stupid bint, what does she know of virgins²? Love, Eddy.

PS: Still King."

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No, seriously, I am working. And using the corpus for serious scholarly purposes and such. *shifty eyes*

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*Although strictly speaking it should be "I think he noticed not".

²Likewise, "what knoweth she...". Because do-support is something that happens to other people.