Posted by andyb on January 08, 2010 at 10:31:03 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: Ages in GN posted by Peter Ceresole on January 07, 2010 at 22:16:03:
It's been done hasn't it? Toad as the nouveau riche, Badger as old money rooted to the land, Rat and Mole as yeomen and the stoats and the weasels as the great unwashed. Not my analysis but I can't remember whose, or in what medium.
As for Latin grammar, only yesterday, I corrected a post-grad's essay thinking 'the verb to be does not take the accusative' but realised that I might as well have written that in Latin, or Sanskrit as attempt to explain it in English.