Painting vs. gilding the lily

[nancylebov]

I'm currently in a discussion in rec.arts.sf.written about whether it's important to say "painting the lily" (the actual Shakespeare quote) rather than the more common (in both senses) "gilding the lily".

Do you care whether people use the original quote? Have you ever been around people who did?

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks--it was obviously excessive optimism when when I thought I could do the tags from memory. How do I access a comment to edit it?

[snippy]

According to the FAQ, you can't edit comments. You could copy the text to a text editor, delete the comment, then re-comment with the corrected text; but if it were me I'd skip it. Anybody that wants to follow the links can still do so.