. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . double the time of a short one: thus, Pate, and Broke, must be pronounced asslowly again as Pat, and Knock. We have remarked a curious tendency in themore youthful students of Grammar to regard thequantity of words (in their lessons) more as being small or great than as coming under thehead of long or short. Their predilectionfor small quantities of words is very striking andpeculiar; food for the mind they seem to lookupon as physic; and all physic, in their estima-tion, is most agreeably taken in infinitesi
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . double the time of a short one: thus, Pate, and Broke, must be pronounced asslowly again as Pat, and Knock. We have remarked a curious tendency in themore youthful students of Grammar to regard thequantity of words (in their lessons) more as being small or great than as coming under thehead of long or short. Their predilectionfor small quantities of words is very striking andpeculiar; food for the mind they seem to lookupon as physic; and all physic, in their estima-tion, is most agreeably taken in infinitesimal Homoeopathic system of acquiring knowledgeis more to their taste than even the Hamiltonian. It is quite impossible to give any rules as toquantity worth reading. The Romans may have 180 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. submitted to them, but that is no reason why weshould. We will pronounce our words as weplease: and if foreigners want to know why, wewill tell them that, when there is no Act of Parlia-ment to the contrary, an Englishman always doesas he likes with his PROSODY. 181 SECTION III. OF EMPHASIS. Emphasis is the distinguishing of some word orwords in a sentence, on which we wish to lay par-ticular stress, by a stronger and fuller sound, andsometimes by a particular tone of the voice. A few illustrations of the importance of emphasiswill be, perhaps, both agreeable and useful. When a young lady says to a young gentleman, You are a nice fellow; you are ! — she meansone thing. When a young gentleman, addressing one of hisown sex, remarks, You re a nice fellow; youare;— he means another thing. • Your friend is a gentleman, pronounced with-out any particular emphasis, is the simple assertionof a fact. Your friend is a gentleman^^ with the emphasison the words friend and gentleman, conveysan insinuation besides. So simple a question as Do you like pine-apple rum? is susceptible of as many meaningsas there are words in it; according to the positionof the
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