In her delightful "j/k", Beena Thomas of somewhere (where?) in India, writes,
I hope this message won't be seen as another
apple of discord sent from India.
Not at all. I love your apples of discord!
But Mr Speranca writes:
Okay. Once is forgiven, twice too. But it's SperanZa, the ordinary Italian
word for "Hope" (There's a Speranza Street in Woolwich, London, and Oscar
Wilde's mother was Lady Speranza). It cannot have a "c" or it would be
pronounced "Speranka", which makes me sound like PaulAnka, and I sing and
look much better!
I wrote
"Child was a Scot, no? (j/k)"
If the "j/k" stands for "joke", let's ignore it.
No. Don't let's ignore it (sic). Well, it stands for "just kidding". I
learned it yesterday from an USAmerican and it stuck with me. Of course,
"kid" means in proper English a young goat, but the Americans use it to mean
"joke". And, no I did not know Child was USAmerican. You see how brutish I
am. I actually wasn't sure his surname was Child. For one moment I thought
it could be Child-ers, but then I recalled that's the Irish author who wrote
"The Riddle of the Sands"...
If not, for Mr Speranca's information, Child was not a
Scot, NO! Francis James Child was (North)American!
Treat this particular email as just a "j/k", please!
We need some comic relief when a discussion gets too
heated up.
I love the heat, and will do some web search to see what else I find about F
J Child, as I'm now pretty much intrigued why a man from the USA spent his
life in a furrin country collecting and especially numbering ditties which
must have been all furrin to him. I'll also try and find out if his
ancestors were either from England or Scotland. I'm sure there must be tons
of info of him. Who could be the ENGLISHMAN or ENGLISHWOMAN to compare to
him in the study of England's balladry? C Sharp I don't think because his
passion was folkSONG. Lloyd I don't think either. Wm Chappell? Kidson? Goss?
Best,
J Luigi Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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