January 14, 2005More Harry badnessFormer Labour MP Lord Janner, who is a high profile member of Britain's Jewish community, branded Harry's action's "stupid and evil". Stupid I might agree with (no, actually, I wouldn't: it's foolish, not stupid), but evil is a word too far. Or, indeed, a Labour peer too far, as he goes on to emit the amazing sentence, "I would send him in the army as fast as possible." Is British English actually this guy's first language? According to his biography, he's Welsh, but he seems to speak English like he's French. But then according to his biography: He is a member of the Magic Circle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Which makes me rather worried about criticising him. He might turn me into a newt. Posted by James Aylett at January 14, 2005 05:39 PMComments
Not only should you be wary of criticising magicians, you should know better than to write something that is so clearly offensive to Welsh people and French people. Your comments are, I fear, both stupid and evil. Get thee to the army. Posted by: James Lark at January 17, 2005 11:07 AMNow hang on. There's no way that's offensive to the French; indeed, English is the weird freaky language here, and I'm pretty certain that lots of other languages would use the same construction. (I don't know Arabic, for instance, but I have a feeling it does something similar.) So I'm mostly offending the English, which is of course impossible. (Many have tried. The whole thing about Waterloo was an attempt to upset Wellington, and was working fine until Wellington started shooting at horses.) Apologies to the Welsh, though. Certainly not your fault he was born in Cardiff. Posted by: James Aylett at January 17, 2005 11:20 AM |
