Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:27 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:35:04PM +0100, Thom May wrote:
> 
> > * Petri Pennanen (suvarin at home.se) wrote :
> > 
> > > Maybe the GDM screen could be a picture from above of three kids running
> > > in a ring, perhaps with a little motion blur?
> > 
> > As Scott's already pointed out, for the brits in the audience this image is
> > always going to resonate with the black death. (ring a ring a roses,...)
> 
> It doesn't particularly matter, since the associate exists anyway, but this
> is a myth:
> 
> http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
> 
It's an interesting one; certainly as a rhyme it has its origins
elsewhere but over the years as the folklore that it's a memory of the
Black Death has become more widespread and popular, the rhyme itself has
been modified to fit it better.

So in effect, it has become a self-fulfilling myth.

The rhyme that wasn't *originally* about the Black Death is slowly
modified to become a rhyme about it after a suggestion of its origins
began.

(The corruption and adoption of rhyme, verse and legend is a *far* more
 interesting English Thesis than simply dismissing popular belief.)

If everybody thinks this is a duck, has it actually become a duck?

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Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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