Sunday, September 2, 2007

Kai Xian's Findings

Kai Xian has gone the 'extra mile' and done some research on the article I posted on 29th August titled 'Life in the 1500s'. She found another article online which refutes many of the claims made in that article. The URL is http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp.

As I have told you in class before while the Internet is a good resource, all the information posted online may not be true. One has to exercise discretion and judgement. A thorough research is always called for when it comes to important facts.

In this case, while the veracity of both articles and claims made by the authors may be disputable and may be either wholly fabricated or partially correct, the important thing to note is they do tell us in some ways how the phrases and expressions we use nowadays could have been coined and give us some information about life in the 1500s.

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