Well what I meant thought that I was pointing out that even yuppies need the
canals to commit suicide in so the term would still be relevant!!!
Greets all have a wonderful weekend and no Jumping in the cut
P
Ps the Market at Waterloo (London) is also called the cut but you would need
to pop down the road to jump in water in the Thames (could be a poem in
this)
PPS been asked by a publisher to do a new book it just seems too much to
even contemplate it! anyone know that feeling???
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 29 April 2010 23:10
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Jump Cut The Definition
I've no idea why anyone would think yuppification means emptying canals. I
believe the writer of the definition originally considered 'gentrification'
but abandoned it as belonging to echoes of the squirearchy. My understanding
is that the implied point is that the poor avoid the areas now as being the
territory of *them worriz posh*.
On 29 April 2010 21:19, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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