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The Tielfling and The Gnome: On the Set of 4th edition
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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3952555" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>Well, sure, but I would like to imagine that ideas and the ability to describe ideas clearly count a lot more than those. Sadly, too many people associate English majors with Grammar Nazis, rather than the ability to examine literature and write interesting stuff.</p><p></p><p>I'm an English Major too, and I will admit that my spelling is <em>terrible</em> without shame.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, spelling is more important for disciplines <em>other</em> than English, in which precision in language is more important, such as the sciences, mathematics, linguistics, and history.</p><p></p><p>As for the root of this, Shakespeare...</p><p></p><p>Shakespeare loved to let people laugh at the pain of characters. I mean, he created the character of <em>Falstaff</em>, the ridiculous, overweight, perverted knight who gets dumped into a laundry basket full of women's clothes and has the tar beaten out of him several times, all in an attempt to get the (real) Queen Elizabeth to laugh (she loved Falstaff).</p><p></p><p>Seriously, if you are looking for high, serious drama without such things as sex jokes, buffoonery, and bathroom humor, Shakespeare is <em>not</em> your man. His plays are full of that stuff.</p><p></p><p>As for the video...</p><p></p><p>As I said before, I thought it was funny. The best part really is the way the gnome is so excited and gleeful over being a monster and having minions and a lair. It is great. I don't understand how this is mean at all... If anything, it portrays Tieflings in a bad light, for being so humorless, selfish, and short-tempered when compared to the greatness of that gnome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 3952555, member: 32536"] Well, sure, but I would like to imagine that ideas and the ability to describe ideas clearly count a lot more than those. Sadly, too many people associate English majors with Grammar Nazis, rather than the ability to examine literature and write interesting stuff. I'm an English Major too, and I will admit that my spelling is [i]terrible[/i] without shame. Frankly, spelling is more important for disciplines [i]other[/i] than English, in which precision in language is more important, such as the sciences, mathematics, linguistics, and history. As for the root of this, Shakespeare... Shakespeare loved to let people laugh at the pain of characters. I mean, he created the character of [i]Falstaff[/i], the ridiculous, overweight, perverted knight who gets dumped into a laundry basket full of women's clothes and has the tar beaten out of him several times, all in an attempt to get the (real) Queen Elizabeth to laugh (she loved Falstaff). Seriously, if you are looking for high, serious drama without such things as sex jokes, buffoonery, and bathroom humor, Shakespeare is [i]not[/i] your man. His plays are full of that stuff. As for the video... As I said before, I thought it was funny. The best part really is the way the gnome is so excited and gleeful over being a monster and having minions and a lair. It is great. I don't understand how this is mean at all... If anything, it portrays Tieflings in a bad light, for being so humorless, selfish, and short-tempered when compared to the greatness of that gnome. [/QUOTE]
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