Not P but Moby-Dick (44)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark and Michael.


On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:54 PM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably a lot of cussin’. (-;
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> https://youtu.be/WpHfJiFjRxs?si=n6j0NH6cwBjbnSvA
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> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:34 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > From Chapter 54:
> >
> > “At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled
> > from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that
> he
> > had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the whole, he would
> do
> > so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the present, considering
> their
> > timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he
> > accordingly administered in the vernacular.
> >
> > What does "in the vernacular" mean here exactly?
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