“feather moon, scarlet sky / i love you endlessly not knowing why / breath in, breath out”

[larryhammer]

Links — two wordy, one wordless:

Dialect coach Erik Singer, with the help of a few linguists, gives a map tour of North American accents, including many non-white varieties and current, on-going changes: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. (via a YouTube suggestion)

Where does the comma go in “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”? (via)

Live moon jelly cam. More live jellies. Relaxing. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Feather Moon, Vienna Teng.

Comments

[oracne]

Jellies!

I have watched both of those videos before, and found them excellent.

[cmcmck]

I've always been taught that it goes after 'merry'.

It certainly makes sense there in older English.

[thistleingrey]

Perhaps it might vary, depending upon who's being addressed and in which manner.

[larryhammer]

bloop ... bloop ... bloop ...

[larryhammer]

I'd always understood it as after "you", but I hadn't known of the Early Modern English use of "rest" with a predicate adjective, as in "God rest (i.e., cause to keep) you merry." A glance at even Wikipedia reveals the comma confusion dates at least as far back as the 18th century.

[oracne]

Bloop!