In the Northern Mists a Grand Fleet Chaplains Note book
In the Northern Mists a Grand Fleet Chaplains Note book
Montague Thomas Hainsselin
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Is it supposed to be funny ? Do we laugh now ? And what is a trope, anyway ? SECOND WATCHKEEPER : It comes from the Eyetalian troppo, meaning Too much of your back answers ! You ought to know that if you've been up the Straits. Dry up and give the Padre a chance. THIRD WATCHKEEPER : No, it comes from the Greek tropos hence the term Tropics. The idea is that whenever the chap opened his lips you heard some pretty Hot Stuff ! MYSELF : A trope is a word turned out of its original meaning in order ...to add emphasis or wit to a remark. It also means a metaphor, or or, well, almost any old thing of that sort. FIRST WATCHKEEPER: Like saying that So-and-So has " had a one-gun salute " l ; is that the idea ? MYSELF : Something like that. My aim is to make a collection of such naval tropes. So I want you to help me. 1 Meaning that he has been court-martialled. The ship in which a C. -M. Is held fires one gun at 8 a. M. On the day of the Court. 59 In the Northern Mists SECOND WATCHKEEPER: Padre, that's all very well, but don't forget that the majority of naval sayings have been handed down from days when polite con- versation was not quite so restrained as it is at present; so, unless your collection is to be a private one MYSELF : It may need Bowdlerising ?
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