https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Boomer More detail on this than I could have wished for.
Meanwhile, someone was gifted (not given) a pen in Pens in General! How timely!
I may never know if "lunch up" is the same as "level up" since learning two new things may be beyond my capabilities. It might be similar to "Meet up" but I've never had a "meet up" either. That might be similar to "day up" often heard as a daily special arrived in the window at the Greasy Spoon.
I like to tell the English teachers that I work with that I "grammar good."
calamus (February 19th, 2020)
I read a report yesterday which contained the gem "maps should be evergreen." I think this is another way (not that we needed another way) to say "keep the maps up to date."
Whilst we are discussing the use of modern English can I take you back to times gone by and the Pedants Revolt
In another venue on our shared topic, there are many threads that start "Recommend me a pen!".
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
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Lady Onogaro (February 16th, 2020)
“Mug up” is woke.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Those always remind me of this little gem that I printed out and hung in my classroom. My poor students learned quickly that even texts or instant messages to me must consist of fully spelled-out words, complete sentences, proper grammar, and appropriate punctuation.
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Online arguments are a lot like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.
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"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Jon Szanto (February 16th, 2020), VertOlive (February 19th, 2020)
'To hell in a hand basket' thats a great phrase just in itself and an example of language evolving out of US culture.
The phrase or variations of it such as hell in a handbag/bucketcomes from a number of written works and music, Helena Handbasket was even a Friends character.
The more usual European saying of 'to hell in a handcart' comes from a Bosch painting of the 16th Century.
I take it to mean the inevitability of where we are going, present company excepted of course.
Lady Onogaro (February 18th, 2020)
Cat grammar. It is all cat grammar.
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." -Epicurus-
Dreck (February 17th, 2020)
Well, some freaks in the 1950s burned records in the streets and sued Ferlinghetti for publishing Howl. So, yeah, some people were worried about Hell. My guess is, though, that there are more zealots there than purveyors of lazy language. Gadzooks.
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TSherbs (February 17th, 2020)
Sprece žū Englisc?
The complaints about language changing are nothing new and stretch back thousands of years. If you can't read Old English (or even Middle English), kindly piss-off, ya pedants.
The irony of mentioning Shakespeare is apparently lost on this group. The man invented around 1700 words extensively by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjective.
So saddle-up (the likely, historical root of "lunch up", cowpokes), and relish in the lexicological freedom of wordplay.
dneal (April 9th, 2020)
I dont know much, if anything about Bosch, but I think there are two Bosch paintings which show a handcart, one is the Hay Wain, or possibly Hay Wagon, and the other is the Garden of Earthly Delights, which shows a hand pulled cart piled high with hay with people on top, the cart is being pulled to the right, to hell.
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I have just looked up this about Bosch to see if any of it made sense, but both paintings showed a handcart on their way to hell, the Garden of Earthly Delights was the more accurate with the handcart actually in hell with the dead on board.
On a different note you will see that this painting predates the popular use of perspective in art, everything appears two dimensional.
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