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So, it was couped up in that apartment for a long time...

• throwanem 10y ago
  I do not hate fun, yet downvoted your pun; I agree that that's sad, but the pun is so bad! It's such a poor line that the sign seemed condign - of the delta it gives to your karma, that is. My doggerel here merits no more excuse, but remains with intent that you feel no misuse; the lesson, I hope, you will find salutary, when next you should chance on the urge to make merry.
  • pavel_lishin 10y ago
    > condign Thank you for teaching me a new word.
    • throwanem 10y ago
      You're welcome!
    • jacobush 10y ago
      Thank you for not letting me assume it was a typo.
      • throwanem 10y ago
        Nice thing about verses, unless they're the worst, is the scan and the rhyme can in parsing save time; when a word fits the scheme, though unlikely it seem, it's been chosen with care for the meaning that's there. (What did you think it was a typo for?)
        • pavel_lishin 10y ago
          > Nice thing about verses, unless they're the worst, is the scan and the rhyme can in parsing save time; I remember someone mentioning that in the oral tradition - pre-literate stuff - rhyming was a sort of checksum to make sure that your story didn't drift too much with retellings.
          • jacobush 10y ago
            A very good checksum. Even if the listener might not always be able to recite a saga or poem, she would likely be pretty able to detect a deviation from the standard telling. I think the rhyming did not exactly prevent changes, but made patches obvious. Kinda like git and source control. :) Oral tradition has been proven to be extremely stable under the right circumstances. Australia has tales about ancestral hunting grounds which have been lost to the sea for millennia. https://www.sott.net/article/291976-Australian-aboriginal-stories-of-ancient-sea-level-rise-have-survived-for-10000-years https://www.sott.net/article/291976-Australian-aboriginal-st...