On Jan 23, 10:49 am, The Historian
wrote:
On Jan 19, 1:06 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

**And is one? This is simple historical naivety and subject to fadism of
writers. For 300 years school kids were taught that Chaucer doesn't scan,
but it does! We merely found out beginning 1986 that those line endings,
especially in words ending 'e' can, like in French, add another syllable.

P Innes is about two centuries behind the times. People knew Chaucer
scanned in the 18th century. But news travels to Cornwall slowly....

I was taught that George Washington cut down
a cherry tree. Years later, some folks claimed
that cherry trees did not arrive in the USA until
long afterward, so he must have traveled to
Japan, cut the tree, then grabbed the red eye
back here before admitting to the crime. (So
much for "history".)

Q: If Shakespeare was so smart, how come
(that's Hoosier-speak for "why is it that") he was
no good at chess? Perhaps he was one of those
idiot savants-- a man who was only good at life,
but who was mediocre, at best, when it comes
to the important stuff, like chess.


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