Obfuscatory vocabulary.

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 05:51 PM

Now obfuscatalogical vocabulary is a different matter. Amazing what you can get away with.

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 06:39 PM

...but someone tried to cut the bloody thing back.

The hedge or the word?**bg**

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 06:42 PM

Thread 47543. All gone over at least once before.
Country Life

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: Bloke from Poole
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 07:25 AM

<<"Laylum" is a song by Eric Clapton. ...>>

I guess that would be the masculine form of Layla, then.

which is, of course, entirely consistent with the remainder of the quote:


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Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: Howard Jones
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 08:24 AM

Leeneia, it's not an old word which has lost its meaning, it's still in use today. It's meaning may be obscure if you're not involved in agriculture, but the same applies to many words specific to particular activities. Folk song, and our language generally, would be much poorer if we tried to substitute all the words we don't understand - that's what dictionaries are for.

In this particular case, I think much of the problem derives from the original source for "Country Life", which for most people is the Watersons' version. The combination of an unfamilar word, Mike Waterson's broad Yorkshire accent, and slightly unclear diction at that point caused a lot of people to mishear.

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: IanC
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 08:30 AM

Thanks, Howard.

Subject: RE: Obfuscatory vocabulary.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM

I still disagree. There's too much palaver in this world and not enough singing.