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Topic: You know when words suddenly loose meaning?
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clockwork
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posted 25 October 2003 04:29 AM
As I'm typing this I have CityTV (the Moses channel) on the tube as I only have my TV antennae to pick up channels. The warning for the show currently on is "This program is intended for mature audiences."Has anyone watched Ed the Sock lately? "Mature audiences"????? Is this some relativistic, postmodern joke that Russel Smith should write about in yet another column I don't understand? edited: matuer to mature! [ 25 October 2003: Message edited by: clockwork ]
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banquosghost
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posted 25 October 2003 12:12 PM
When you captioned this thread as "when words *loose* meaning", did you mean to say "when they *lose* meaning" or "when they *loosen* meaning"?Either would work. *Loose* for *lose* is probably the newest evolutionary change in english. I think the spelling will have to change to *looze* though. Edited due to momentary loss of memory. [ 25 October 2003: Message edited by: banquosghost ]
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banquosghost
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posted 25 October 2003 05:08 PM
What exactly is an "ed the sock" anyway?No flame intended. A flame would have been 'why don't you learn to spell the Queen's english properly you semi-literate dolt'. Or words to that effect. I see *loose* used for *lose* so frequently now that I think it probably is another example of liguistic evolution. I don't care for it much but then evolution generally doesn't give a shit about that for which I care. See, that's an example of proper construction that sucks. It's so much more direct to just say 'evolution doesn't give a shit about what I care for'. But that leaves the preposition 'for' dangling. But, you know, who gives a shit? It doesn't really matter much if words loose meaning because too often meaning itself is so loose anyway. There's no mean meaning is what I mean. That point where one meaning becomes the opposite meaning would be the mean meaning. Meanly stated. [ 25 October 2003: Message edited by: banquosghost ]
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banquosghost
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posted 25 October 2003 08:20 PM
Aha! What does Ed do if one may ask?I'm so pleased for your derriere. edited to add: Russel is too easily a typo. Which is of course a house of a different collar. www.wordweb.co.uk [ 25 October 2003: Message edited by: banquosghost ]
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oldgoat
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posted 26 October 2003 12:46 AM
quote: Ha, ha, my derriere has an IQ of 160, type of thing, you know?
Having met clockwork in person, I can attest that his derriere does indeed have an IQ of 160, although some other parts were a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, "Ed the Sock"! This um.. thing, for want of a better word has been a force on late night television for more years than I can recall, but a lot. Mature audiences indeed. HAH! Ya know that goofy Brit that advertises phone sex late at night with all the jiggling mammaries and bottoms cavorting across the screen. This also apparently is for people who are mature. When I was 12 years old, and, ummm... being "stimulated" by some of Hugh Hefners pubelications, I'm glad no one told me they were really for "mature" people. Yup, that interview with Norman Mailer was sure stimulating.
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