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12 Sep 24 - 04:54 AM (#4208214) Subject: BS: language positives From: The Sandman A positive thread about the use of language that people like |
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12 Sep 24 - 08:40 AM (#4208222) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman Oscar Wilde quote There is no mode of action,no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals, it is only by language that we rise above them |
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12 Sep 24 - 11:31 AM (#4208234) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: meself Before everyone weighs in with the classics - I find there are turns of phrase that pop up in song lyrics of various genres that are striking in their blunt directness or in their casual indirectness. These are usually more clever than deep - even, as one of my English profs once put it, "devoid of intellectual content" - but catchy and memorable. For instance, the Beach Boys: "I'm getting bugged driving up and down the same ol' strip,/I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip" - you could write a (short?) essay on the attitude, sub-culture, social implications, and imagery evoked by those two simple lines. |
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18 Sep 24 - 02:01 AM (#4208506) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman golf is a good walk spoiled. MARK TWAIN |
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18 Sep 24 - 04:32 AM (#4208519) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Neil D English and Americans: Two peoples separated by a common language. G B Shaw |
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18 Sep 24 - 04:37 AM (#4208522) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman Trump, a fart in a circus quote Dick Miles |
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18 Sep 24 - 04:49 AM (#4208527) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Tattie Bogle When two positives make a negative, as in the Scottish expression of scorn: “Aye right!” Translation for any John McEnroe fans - “You cannot be serious!” |
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18 Sep 24 - 10:44 AM (#4208540) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: meself Every once in a while, it occurs to me that I haven't heard some old, useful, and somewhat colourful expression in a long time - e.g., the phrase "without so much as a by-your-leave" popped into my head a few minutes ago - has anyone heard that one lately? |
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18 Sep 24 - 11:27 AM (#4208543) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Lighter Here in the States we say, "Yeah, right!" with the same meaning. |
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18 Sep 24 - 02:12 PM (#4208555) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: robomatic I like the hopefulness of "Artificial Intelligence" as if there is such a thing as "REAL Intelligence". |
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18 Sep 24 - 02:52 PM (#4208559) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler As opposed to Military Intelligence? Robin |
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19 Sep 24 - 03:18 AM (#4208578) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: BobL "Artificial Incompetence" |
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19 Sep 24 - 03:51 AM (#4208581) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman ere in ireland a fine soft day, is in relation to drizzle, very poistive and optimistic whilst the scots refer more pessimistically to a dricht or dreich day |
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19 Sep 24 - 02:02 PM (#4208599) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman gone for a burton. |
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25 Sep 24 - 12:00 PM (#4208834) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Mr Red the GF is a gardener and out in all weathers. Her expressions are: "rain by 7, fine by 11" which relates to a weather pattern common in the SW of England where the rain get channeled by the Severn Estuary. "morning pride" - the sort of light rain that wouldn't trouble most people. Or any rain she continues to work in, which makes the word light work very hard! "a scud" heavier rain that doesn't last very long. Say 5 minutes. and she never says "looks black over Bill's mother's" And a GF long ago used to say "take a lot of no never". ie ignore |
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25 Sep 24 - 04:30 PM (#4208854) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: The Sandman A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.O Wilde |
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27 Sep 24 - 09:19 AM (#4208921) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: Lighter "Memory is not a clear glass pane but a stained-glass window through which we see our own pasts more vividly." - Samuel Hynes, literary historian and WWII memoirist. (In my case it's more like a dirty glass pane....) |
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27 Sep 24 - 11:05 AM (#4208926) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: gillymor That reminds of something I've seen on a bumper sticker- The Older I Get the Better I Was |
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27 Sep 24 - 11:17 AM (#4208930) Subject: RE: BS: language positives From: gillymor Someone sent this to me. No idea where it came from- Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man. |