a kind of mad thing is happening - that i am not repsonsible for> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:54:44 +1000> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Snap, 26 September 07 : Rite of Spring> To: [log in to unmask]> > i like them mob> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:32:04 +0800> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Snap, 26 September 07 : Rite of Spring> To: [log in to unmask]> > People can read filth into almost anything you say, if they have a> mind to. 'Pussy' has not been corrupted to the extreme like the word> 'gay' has. Luckily, English is a living, vibrant tongue, hence change> is constant - and such changes of meaning mainly come up from the> streets and not down from academia.> > How often do the dons of Oxford sit to deliberate on accepting changes> to our tongue? Every five years? When do they bring forth a new> edition of the Oxford Dictionary?> > Out of interest, I have read recently that 8% of the world's flora is> endangered, 18% of mammals, but a staggering 40% of languages. Where> I've been living (Gibb R., Northern Australia) is a case in point.> Certain words certainly live on, but they are wrapped up in a kind of> 'station' English. (One little student could not say 'they'. Each time> she came to the word, she would say 'them mob' - that's their English> term for 'they'. They had a whole different vocab for the cattle at> mustering time - words I couldn't get my mouth around often >g<)> > I'm sitting up here, on broadband, at a B&B in the beautiful town of> Broome on the coast of North West Australia. I cannot tell you how> beautiful this place is. Perhaps we should have our first PoetryEtc> Poetry Festival here ... Say, in 2010? Enuff time for us all to save> and plan?> > Ambitious Andrew, always dreaming of getting us all together at one> point on the planet.> > On 27/09/2007, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > Now *there's interesting! Is the kissa bit the bit that means cat or> > pussy?Some years back I was on an international retreat for all sorts of> > artists, and there was a Finnish painter there who used to call the house> > cat to her with the words kisu, kisu (sp? keessoo?). I didn't know if this> > meant 'Puss, Puss' or 'here, here'. (Have just realised I could have put> > 'come, come' instead of 'here', but then how would Kasper know *how* dirty I> > was being?!)> >> > joanna> >> >> > ----- Original Message -----> > From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:51 AM> > Subject: Re: Snap, 26 September 07 : Rite of Spring> >> >> > > What about pajunkissa urpu??> > > Cheers P> > >> > > I'll ruminate on the finnish word, get back to you :)> > >> > > KS> > >> >> > > -- > Andrew> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/> _________________________________________________________________> Win tix to see Crowded House live at the Greek Theatre, LA!> http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=800&referral=windowslivehotmailtagline&URL=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/crowdedhouse
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