Dec 15, 2006

Oi

Have you ever had that feeling? The feeling of you've been doing something the wrong way your whole life and you've never known it?

Well, yesterday, I was walking along, minding my own business, when suddenly something hit me. It was a large, heavy THOUGHT. The word "wherefore" in Archaic English, means "Why", right? Right. I knew this. I also knew that in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says in the balcony scene, "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

But what I realized is this: according to the actual laws of archaic English, Juliet was really asking, "Why are you Romeo?" which explains perfectly why she next says, "Denounce they name," and goes on with that whole thing about roses smelling as sweet.

"Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be Romeo? Couldn't you be Bill or Bob, so that we wouldn't have to worry about our families when we got married?" This is what Juliet is really asking.

What a dunce I am not to have realized it before!

Wherefore, wherefore did I not realize this?

1 comment:

QuillPen said...

Wow...