[Lexicog] Phrasal Synonyms For, References to -- "Overly Talkative" Part II

[Fritz Goerling]

Great, Scott!

 

A few comments interspersed in your mail below.

Folks, Fritz, and fellow lexico-buffs. 

           Nice alliteration. Sounds Shakespearean, too: "Friends, Romans,
and countrymen"

I thought I'd finish my thought about over-talkativeness, brevity, and the
music of language. My point was
to show the paradox of the axiom. I've found that when a blanket truism is
declared, there is another, opposite truism that contradicts it, sort of
like
the yin-yang principle.

          That is true. I find that with many African proverbs there is a
counterproverb which is equally true.

>From Scott's lists:

A man who married a woman because she was a good conversationalist left her
-- because she talked too much.

Cowboy joke from Fritz:

    A cowboy enters a bar. He says 'Hi" to two other cowboys sitting at the
bar. They answer 'Hi.' Five minutes silence.

   Then the newcomer asks 'How are you?' As a reply one of the cowboys draws
his gun and shoots him. The other cowboy

   asks him 'Why did you kill him?' The first cowboy replies: 'He talked too
much.'





 

 

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