AtDDtA1: Informality of Speech

[Dave Monroe]

"'I can't hardly wait!' he exclaimed.
   "'For which you have just earned five more demerits!' advised a
stern voice [...].  'Or shall we say ten?  How many times,' continued
Lindsay Noseworth, second-in-command here and known for his impatience
with manifestations of the slack, 'have you been warned, Suckling,
against informality of speech?'" (AtD, Pt. I, p. 4)


Lindsay

LINDSAY
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish

Pronounced: LINDZ-ee
>From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name
meaning "Lincoln's wetland" in Old English.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=lindsay

Gaelic Name: MacGhille Fhionntaig
Motto: Endure forte (Suffer bravely)
Badge: Rue
Lands: Borders, Angus
Origin of Name: Placename, probably Norman

http://www.scotclans.com/clans/Lindsay/history.html


Noseworth

Apellido Noseworth (?)

http://members.fortunecity.com/aheraldry/N/Noseworth.htm


"manifestations of the slack"

Pynchon, Thomas.  "Nearer, my Couch, to Thee."
   New York Times Book Review, 6 June 1993, pp. 3, 57.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/sloth.html


"informality of speech"

Suckling's reputation as a poet depends on his minor pieces. They have
wit and fancy, and at times exquisite felicity of expression. "Easy,
natural Suckling," Millamant's comment in Congreve's The Way of the
World (Act iv., sc. i.), is a just tribute to their spontaneous
quality....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suckling_(poet)

"Suckling, above all the other Cavalier poets... cultivated
[sprezzatura,] this special quality of instinctive, careless poise.
Sometimes, indeed, like a Restoration fop, he seems so careful about
being careless that the substance of his discourse goes by the board.
But his gay trifles have remained current in the language as some
others have not; he is the prototype of the Cavalier playboy."

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed., v.1.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 1704-5.

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/sjsbio.htm

"Easy, natural Suckling" has won for himself, since the days of the
restoration and Congreve's Millamant, an assured place in the
bead-roll of English poets as the typical cavalier lyrist, the
arch-representative of Pope's "mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease"
light-hearted songs of courtly gallantry. Considerable in bulk and
varied in character as is his literary work, it can only be regarded
as the product of certain hours of leisure, snatched from a life of
tempestuous mirth, or from the nobler activities of a soldier's
career. Suckling, sometimes, has been regarded as a mere reveller of
the court, who made war upon all that was noblest in love, and
substituted songs licentious in spirit and in metric structure for the
chaste raptures of Elizabethan love-lyrists....

http://www.bartleby.com/217/0110.html

Prescriptivism in Literature

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003824.html