Queen Victoria

[H.P. Houtzagers]

Dear Seelangers,
not being a native speaker of English, but being an inhabitant of a
real kingdom (albeit a small one), I feel intitled to suggest a
correction with respect to the well-known quotation from Queen Victoria
that appeared on Seelangs twice the last two days: 'I am not amused'. Any
real royalist :) immediately understands that this should be 'WE ARE not
amused'. The pluralis maiestatis is, in my opinion, what makes the
quotation so funny.

Peter Houtzagers


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Dr. H. Peter Houtzagers, Slavic Department, Groningen University,
The Netherlands, tel. +31 50 3636061/3636067, fax +31 50 3634900
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