passions

*sigh*
one of my, until now, most secret loves has been formal english. i love thees and thous, therefores and felicitations... i love saying things that sound pretty and lyrical, i love playing with my language like i play with my instruments... ah... it is so lovely to meet someone else that shares that, but until then i try to keep it under wraps, speaking the lingo of my high school halls and dumbing up my english papers so that i can spell what i mean to say well enough for it to be understood... i can say what it is in words that some call archaic, but, alas, i cannot often write it in the same strain, i must be content with words close enough to convey the meaning but not, oh, not the flavor of the phrase... sigh, so sad a life for a romantic :) that is my main driving force behind wanting to learn japanese and arabic, such pretty tounges, and written in such gorgeous script...
*drat*