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As a balance to "Talk like a Pirate Day," Today is "Talk like a Quaker Day"
Why today, of all days in the year? It's William Penn's birthday. And it's United Nations Day.
Since (most) Quakers today speak like (most) other people today, and since I'm not in any position to engage in Three-Dee Space Dialog, I'd thought I'd share some actual quotes from William Penn, so you could get a taste of how real Quakers really did talk (or at least, write).
Because my brain is currently steeped in a story centering on a child, this quote speaks particularly clearly to me, today:
And this passage, too, speaks to me, having recently been engaged (actively as well as lurkingly) in various discussions on the strengths of online friendships, and friendships across "unconventional spaces":
Both of these passages are from The Fruits of Solitude (1693)
(BTW, the image in my icon was painted by a Quaker -- Edward Hicks -- back in his day, Quakers generally frowned on decorative arts, because those arts are often used as a means to flaunt privilege and inequality. But the people in his community realized that painting was the way he spoke his truth most clearly, so he was not censured for it the way some others might have been [except by those who disagreed with his truth])
Since (most) Quakers today speak like (most) other people today, and since I'm not in any position to engage in Three-Dee Space Dialog, I'd thought I'd share some actual quotes from William Penn, so you could get a taste of how real Quakers really did talk (or at least, write).
Because my brain is currently steeped in a story centering on a child, this quote speaks particularly clearly to me, today:
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Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And those also would follow with more Judgment, and less Trouble and Time.
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And this passage, too, speaks to me, having recently been engaged (actively as well as lurkingly) in various discussions on the strengths of online friendships, and friendships across "unconventional spaces":
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Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
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Both of these passages are from The Fruits of Solitude (1693)
(BTW, the image in my icon was painted by a Quaker -- Edward Hicks -- back in his day, Quakers generally frowned on decorative arts, because those arts are often used as a means to flaunt privilege and inequality. But the people in his community realized that painting was the way he spoke his truth most clearly, so he was not censured for it the way some others might have been [except by those who disagreed with his truth])
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*Squish &heart*
By th'bye... if you're in the mood for arcane language geekery, by language geeks, International Talk like a Quaker Day got a write up in the Language Log blog, here: George Fox, Prescriptivist, focusing, mainly on why later generations of Quakers got the use of "thee" and "thou" grammatically muddled, in their plain speech. The discussion continues in the comment thread (to which I contributed, this afternoon), as to why the use of thee and thou has dropped out of use almost entirely (except within the circles of certain historically and grammatically aware modern Friends).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpFde5rgmw
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(It actually hit my cyberspace the same day as news of
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My only gripe would be that Sesame Street's YouTube channel never actully gives any information in their information section. I'd like to know who wrote the song, who's singing it, and who's perfoming the muppet... :-/ Even going onto the show's website, that information is nearly impossible to find.
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http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/I_Love_My_Hair
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...And it's still annoying that Sesame Street doesn't put any of that up, themselves. I can understand wanting to protect the suspension of disbelief for its youngest viewers, but parents and teachers (and grown fans) still want and deserve more nuts and bolt information.