Subject: Re: Cravenhearted.
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 16:43:22 GMT
--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Onerous? Fustian? How many college students use those words with ease?
Fustian. I don't think you should make the mistake of the
vocabulary-deficient college students of today with any child of
yesterday.
However, "onerous" and "fustian" are words that even a college student of
today could find in any Jane Austen novel without looking very hard or
very long. If Seymour is in need of a teacher and is looking to books to
find that teacher, it would make sense that he should abscond with the
favorite words of his favorite authors. Later in "Hapworth 16, 1924"
Seymour lists the works of Jane Austen as necessary to him, even though
he's read them before.
Besides. At the age of twelve, I wasn't above using a "fustian" or two
myself.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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