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January 24, 2015 12:27 PM

I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist. (h/t Language Log)
posted by benito.strauss (11 comments total)

Not laugh out loud funny, but pretty well done. I just sent it on to the four biblical philologists in my life.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 1:39 PM on January 24, 2015

Almost better than this one for me. I posted the philologist link for my two historian friends, one of whom I may have beaten to it.
posted by Peach at 2:11 PM on January 24, 2015

Bravo!
posted by carter at 2:39 PM on January 24, 2015

I didn't understand what any of those words meant but oh my, the syllables fit together so beautifully.
posted by ropeladder at 3:03 PM on January 24, 2015

That was excellently done. Bravo!
posted by sbutler at 3:53 PM on January 24, 2015

Pretty good, but it's no Heroine Barbarian.
posted by erniepan at 6:31 PM on January 24, 2015 [5 favorites]

Fabulous! Thank you,
posted by harrietthespy at 7:30 PM on January 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

> I just sent it on to the four biblical philologists in my life.

See, I knew that there were people out there who just had to see this, I just didn't know where they were. But I guessed that MetaFilter would know.
posted by benito.strauss at 8:42 PM on January 24, 2015 [4 favorites]

Good golly, how did I not notice until just now that -- speaking of philologists -- Tolkien's Errantry fits Modern Major-General perfectly? And so, I guess, would Eärendil Was a Mariner.
posted by darksasami at 2:31 AM on January 25, 2015

It's nice to hear the borderline silliness of Gilbert & Sullivan put to such good use. Clever!
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 9:18 AM on January 25, 2015

For he is a bib-philol!
(Hurrah for the bib-philol!)
posted by ostranenie at 7:25 PM on January 25, 2015