Crystal and I were reading “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” last night and I found the following quote rather humorous in light of our recent discussion about the impropriety of “proper” grammar:
(Mr. Beaver is talking)
“It’s all right,” he was shouting. “Come out, Mrs. Beaver. Come out, Sons and Daughters of Adam. It’s all right! It isn’t Her!” This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia — in our world they usually don’t talk at all. (pg. 115)
Hey, I may be wrong about my linguistic sentiments, but at least I’m in good company.



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September 9, 2008 at 9:08 am
thewritingrunner
How beavers AND lots of people talk when they are excited…! :)
September 9, 2008 at 10:58 am
chedspellman
Very Nice.
September 16, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Ben Nuttall
Awesome. Just a minute ago I saw the book on the coffee table downstairs, opened it to a random page and saw one of my favourite quotes from the whole series. I love this sort of thing C.S. Lewis comes out with. Brilliant.
Just googled part of the phrase (to save typing it out myself) and found this page as top hit.
Check out this blog post about something crazy which happened to me through Aslan: http://www.bennuttall.com/blog/2008/08/connecting-with-rev-josh-through-aslan.html
Nice smooth blog layout.
Ben