18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
2:52 p.m.
From: William Donzelli
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:27 PM
> On the other hand, the archaeologists are not
qualified to judge the
> value of the bad poetry and horrid prose to the linguists and and to
> the historians, who almost certainly will not agree with each other,
> either.
True, but I bet the "90 percent of everything is
crap" rule applied
back then as it does now.
Doesn't matter that it's crap if it contains an interesting verb form
not seen before, or mentions an historical fact only known previously
from a single source.