Nice word--"copacetic." It may still have some
life in it, sort of like an old dog that can barely
walk, but will, if you kneel down and offer it
your nose, give you a big, sloppy lick.
Hal
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Quoting Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>>
>> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
>> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
>> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>>
>> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
>> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
>> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>>
>> And if we can’t have that we’d have to wonder why. Or, if
>> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
>> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>>
>> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
>> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
>> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>>
>> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
>> So we’ll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>>
>>
>> Hal
>
> Oh , Hal, always a tingle or several reading your sonnets.
>
> But copacetic?!
>
> First up on Google is:
>
> WeirdWords
>
> COPACETIC
> Fine, excellent, going just right.
>
> It’s possible that this word has created more column inches of
> speculation in
> the USA than any other apart from OK. It’s rare to the point of
> invisibility
> outside North America. People mostly become aware of it in the
> sixties as a
> result of the US space program—it’s very much a Right Stuff kind of
> word. But
> even in the USA it doesn’t have the circulation it did thirty years
> ago.
> Dictionaries are cautious about attributing a source for it,
> reasonably so, as
> there are at least five competing explanations, with no very good
> evidence for
> any of them.
> etc.
>
> best from Max
>
>
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