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Bond has a certain charm, though George and and Roger were particularly ugly men. I find the new one to be more energetic? I should see the new film, before I say that I am not convinced he is really a Bond.
Though, I have to say it was always ridiculous to me (even as a little kid) to have women falling over themselves for Bond. Wasn't Ian Flemming meant to have not liked Bond? Or am I imagining things again...
Hmmm. The Bond books are overrated and usually bear marginal resemblance to the films of the same name. Bizarrely I like Timmy Dalton 'The Living Daylights' but please don't deduct points for that alarming lack of taste.
the book came first so any later version resemble it.
"You look like your father", not "Your father looks like you". If you don't look like your father, neither is correct of course.
Young upstarts! In my day they taught us English and if we got it wrong it was detention, not counselling :-P
If Frankly is both behaving like children, I take it that Frankly is siamese twins. But which one resembles the other?
I think Skids has it though: both father and son may indeed share a "semblance" of or to each other but the "re" implies "again" so can only be applied to what came second which in this case is the son's "re" "semblance" ('likeness to a previous image') to the father.
"re" performs a similar function in assemble/ reassemble: you can't reassemble first.
I agree with Skids, mostly due to fearsome English teachers. But resemblance could be construed to refer to who you are first acquainted with. If you are a good friend of the son, would you not say that the father bears a striking resemblance to the son, once you have been introduced. The order of precedence is your familiarity with the individual concerned.
Is Hello-e'en a new festive season conjured up by those cunning marketing people.