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?

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Hi Nancy!

[wolfdancer.livejournal.com]

Welcom to the borg colective!
You have jsut been asmulateded.
Wave by by to the like that you once knew. The large sucking sound is the is LJ drawing you in, and the rest of your free time going away.

Re: Hi Nancy!

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

No question about that--I hadn't realized what a temptation to more writing, more ambitious writing (a topic which I'm going to write something about) and more reading lj could be.

Fortunately, I've been wasting enough time on tetris that I can free some of it up.