This, however, is indeed the celebration…

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7 responses to “This, however, is indeed the celebration…”

1. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

   January 15, 2013

   You have no idea how much I needed to laugh at this moment. Hah!

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2. Charles Culbreth

   January 15, 2013

   I’ll wait for Todd’s declaration as to whether this all constitutes actual “humor” or not. If he doesn’t chime in, Prof. Rindfleisch might deigneth to grace our thoughtful deliberations of grammar and mirth.

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   1. Todd Flowerday

      January 15, 2013

      @Charles Culbreth – comment #2:
      Charles, my critique of reform2 “humor” is simple: they laugh at others. Themselves, not so much.

      It’s a basic rule of thumb, and yes, sometimes the attempts at humor here are as childish as at the Cafe.

      That said, this post strikes me more as satire. People in power get poked at, and this has long been a part of human interaction, even protest against those who lord it over others. Court jesters and that tradition: the ability to keep a personal locus of humor while jabbing deep. Think Nathan the prophet dressed in funny shoes and hat.

      Big difference between this and a bunch of bitter CMAA’ers gang tackling a college student with things a bit more personal.

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      1. Charles Culbreth

         January 15, 2013

         @Todd Flowerday – comment #3:
         Well, my friend Todd, if that post is an example of satire conjured to conjoin a simple typo, or error in grammar in order to rehash the “violence inherent in the system” represented by Vox Clara’s mischief over MR3, then I lament that PTB’s coherency of thought is remniscent of the end days of Lenny Bruce. Or in 1970 lingo (that’s satire), that is some weak sh*t. (Please don’t remonstrate my use of that colloquialism, I have a Harvard Professor’s bona fide treatise on that very subject in my library!)
         Satire should be left to folks like Matt Groenig- (Homer Simpson to Marge in church while listening to the pipe organ version of Ina Gadda da Vida: “Ah honey, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”- or Groucho Marx. And you need to get outta the academy more, read some John Zmirak Bad Catholic’s Guides. He’s a hoot without being in anybody’s face about it.
         And, for the record, the young college student you j’accuse CMAA of gang pummeling was quite soundly taken to task on these very pages as well. Perhaps even moreso than MSF, as there are tons more initials floating over here than there per capita. Isn’t that satire too? I coulda been a contenda.

3. Jonathan Day

   January 15, 2013

   There are some great Italian idioms that make for interesting English — such as “the pope and the cardinals, all and two” (tutt’e due = “both”), or “without other, we say the Creed on Sunday” (senz’altro = “of course”), or “of truth, those birettas look silly” (davvero = “really”).

   The joys of word-for-word translation, in the Mass and in VIS, all and two!

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4. Mike Joncas

   January 15, 2013

   To follow up on Mr. Day’s comment: one of the ways I used to amuse myself as a grad student in Italy was by translating American idioms word-for-word into Italian. My favorite was “Vorrei parlare tacchino;” while “I’d like to talk turkey” made perfect sense to me, it left my Italian interlocutors baffled. (I know, I have now revealed more than I should about just how peculiarly my mind works.)

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5. Ellen Joyce

   January 16, 2013

   Happy Feast Day Fr. Anthony! Even now.

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