11-10-2003, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2003, 05:28 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Well, gee golly and gadzooks! That sure as in gosh-darned heck done freaked me out, dude! Let me finagle this lil' blurb of info into my noggin'. But meanwhile...
"Bazooka" was a psuedo-Yiddish bit of nomenclature for a vaudeville musical instrument. Not anymore, buddy.
"Gothic" was a disparaging term that a person of a Reniassance mind labeled to those regions and localities that remained more or less medieval, the term itself making reference to the tribe of Goths that had nothing to do with the architectural and societal lines in which they describe.
A "snafu" was born out of an acronym. So was "radar", "sonar", and "laser".
Don't like "centimetric radar"? Try "microwave" instead.
A "homer", is it a baseball term, or a diminuation of "homing-capable"?
Automobile. Or is it "autonomously mobile carriage"? Hamburger. Or is it a "Hamburg steak sandwich"?
"Bah. Humbug." a refrain from a fictional character that attains immortality in its use as an exclamation as well as meaning "nonsense".
"McJob", aside from the potentially mistaken perspective that it is derogatory to the Irish, is no more an affront to the English language than any of the other past assaults.
As one can deign, thou speaks in the tongue of the English, but in a passing of manner most strange to mine ears.
"Bazooka" was a psuedo-Yiddish bit of nomenclature for a vaudeville musical instrument. Not anymore, buddy.
"Gothic" was a disparaging term that a person of a Reniassance mind labeled to those regions and localities that remained more or less medieval, the term itself making reference to the tribe of Goths that had nothing to do with the architectural and societal lines in which they describe.
A "snafu" was born out of an acronym. So was "radar", "sonar", and "laser".
Don't like "centimetric radar"? Try "microwave" instead.
A "homer", is it a baseball term, or a diminuation of "homing-capable"?
Automobile. Or is it "autonomously mobile carriage"? Hamburger. Or is it a "Hamburg steak sandwich"?
"Bah. Humbug." a refrain from a fictional character that attains immortality in its use as an exclamation as well as meaning "nonsense".
"McJob", aside from the potentially mistaken perspective that it is derogatory to the Irish, is no more an affront to the English language than any of the other past assaults.
As one can deign, thou speaks in the tongue of the English, but in a passing of manner most strange to mine ears.
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.