05-09-2014, 06:48 PM
Billy, old bean, I love haute cuisine, and fish and chips, and every type of cooking in between. I object to baristas who think that I ought not to have milk, let alone sugar, because of all the trouble they have gone to, but otherwise - I'm a grub man. God forbid that I ever learn not to enjoy this or that.
As to this inversion thing, you must ask yourself this:
1 Does it grate when you read Romantic poets using this? Can't you stand Keats and co?
2 If you find it acceptable in old poets, then do you need to know the author, or date, to allow you to judge whether it jars or not?
3 If you need info about the author, then do you accept that you no longer just look at the text and get from it what you will?
Turn back, Billy, turn back! This edgy stuff will take you to places undreamt of -- like our poor A-level students who are to study texting, and the lyrics of one Dizzee Rascal! You see? Leave the well-trod straight and narrow, and you are in a wilderness.
As to this inversion thing, you must ask yourself this:
1 Does it grate when you read Romantic poets using this? Can't you stand Keats and co?
2 If you find it acceptable in old poets, then do you need to know the author, or date, to allow you to judge whether it jars or not?
3 If you need info about the author, then do you accept that you no longer just look at the text and get from it what you will?
Turn back, Billy, turn back! This edgy stuff will take you to places undreamt of -- like our poor A-level students who are to study texting, and the lyrics of one Dizzee Rascal! You see? Leave the well-trod straight and narrow, and you are in a wilderness.