[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

[Ray Saintonge]

WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/5/2009 11:10:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> saintonge at telus.net writes:
>   
>> Twitter and the short attention span of those who 
>> favour it turn historical insight into inanity.  Linking the "wine-dark 
>> sea" to the later Peloponnesian Wars already separates us from its 
>> association with the death of Patroclus in the Iliad.>>
>>     
> ------------------------
> Even in the post-Twitter world, any given person will still recite nursery 
> rhymes and song lyrics entire.  There is something to be said for that sort 
> of human ability.
>
> Will
>
> Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
> The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn
> And where's the little boy who looks after the sheep?
> He's under the haystack fast asleep.
>
>   
And the missing line:*

   * Will you wake him? No, not I - for if I do, he's sure to cry*

*Unfortunately we lose the political meanings that often underlaid these 
rhymes.

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