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Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

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The fashionable French
go out of their way
to keep out foreign words
for they know
words go out of mode
where they're from
faster than where they go.

They know that pretty soon
where those words are from
would start calling them quaint.

Keeping out foreign words
is clearly stating they ain't.

Douglas Scotney

Monday, February 15, 2016

Topic(s) of this poem: fashion,language

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title: Not A Quaint Country.
after reading in Huxley's Those Barren Leaves,1925, that 'spleen' was still being used in France for 'boredom' when it had died out years before in England, from whence it came.

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