yuppification doesn't mean emptying, surely.
I picture smart apartments with flower-boxes and bright paint, polished
doorknobs, lining clean well-lit paths and waterways.
nicht war?
Max
Quoting Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Nice title for a pamphlet
> And why did the yuppies empty the canals seems they are a public service ??
> P confused again
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Judy Prince
> Sent: 29 April 2010 13:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Jump Cut The Definition
>
> At last, a serious researcher (if not speller).
>
> j oodles
>
> On 29 April 2010 01:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Jump-cut (jump cut):
> >
> > 1. An abbreviation of 'To Jump in the Cut': a method of suicide practised
> > by
> > the Birmingham poor before the yuppification of the canalside areas.
> >
> > 2. Feelings of despair likely to result in such behavoiur
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