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hamishw
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 268
Location: Melbourne
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 Sinking Morale:the view below decks
The following comments from navy personnel appeared in the Telegraph today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/06/navy206.xml
Hamish
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| Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:38 am |
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GLOman
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 668
Location: Northamptonshire
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 I don't know about Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves - I think in our case it should read
Rule Britannia, Britannia Waives the Rules! Fight4thePJM forever!
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| Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:37 pm |
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'Jock' Fenton
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 1222
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Quote:GLOman WROTE:
Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves - I think in our case it should read
Rule Britannia, Britannia Waives the Rules!
As fine an example of contemporary chiasmus (rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures) as I have ever read!
_________________ ...................'Jock'
Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.
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| Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:58 pm |
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ro5=6372
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 1763
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[quote="'Jock' Fenton"][quote]GLOman WROTE:
Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves - I think in our case it should read
Rule Britannia, Britannia Waives the Rules! [/quote]
As fine an example of contemporary chiasmus (rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures) as I have ever read![/quote]
DINNA FORGET,THERE IS AN R.F.A. WAVE RULER,BUT THERE WAS RULE WAVER,AFORE THIS,NAME OF PHONEYDICK.
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