I have never come across that. I won't say we don't have it here; but
I don't think so. I remember "wicked". That may still be with us.
30 years ago when I taught teenagers I remember asking "Is that good
wicked or bad wicked?"
nowadays my question is more likely to be "Is that 'great' as in "this
is a great burger' or as in 'Oh look there goes Alexander the Great'"
Friend of mine with youngish kids used "epic" in a teenage way,
meaning whatever it means - that there was a lot of something or that
something was impressive; I can't be fagged to analyse it.
I let it pass a few minutes and then repeated the sentence to her -
prefaced by "you do know you just said"
She was embarrassed. But one understands. If she wants to speak to her
kids she has to listen to such linguistic abuse without correcting
them every minute.
I remember the feeling of embarrassment! after I delighted a colleague
by referring to "a whole raft of" something
But deadly is flaccid and mediocre even used to mean deadly.
Ta!
L
On 04/10/2013, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'Deadly' strikes a wrong note with me because I am used to hearing
> Aborigines express at, meaning 'cool'. If a guitar solo goes well, it is
> deadly, man. There are even national arts awards for indigenous people
> called the Deadlies (or maybe the Deadlys). But even stripping away those
> echoes, 'deadly' seems out of place.
>
> For what it's worth ...
>
> Andrew
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> On 3 October 2013 18:59, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> As they are presented in this sequence. Yes, it is the police term.
>> You ask 2 interesting questions. Ive been thinking about the frame
>> slippage overnight; and I think probably not. I like the one instance,
>> held; but I'll keep in in mind, But you are right about deadly. That
>> needs work. Thanks
>>
>> L
>>
>> On 02/10/2013, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Domestics (& that's the police term no?) are harsh, as you see them,
>> > Lawrence.
>> >
>> > Should there be more of that frame slippage than the one repeat? And I
>> > wondered if 'deadly' is somehow too, we;; I dont know; I thought 'dead'
>> as
>> > in the emotions etc...
>> >
>> > Doug
>> > On 2013-10-02, at 12:53 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Punches her in the face, breaking it up,
>> >> the problems of mankind something personal;
>> >> her mouth turns backwards flame-glowing
>> >> to a dislocated grin, a smashed mirror.
>> >>
>> >> I cannot breathe. Liquid evaporating,
>> >> trying to sound casual, stiffening her pain.
>> >> The picture of her sticks at frame slippage,
>> >> straddling two images held apart slightly
>> >>
>> >> audio hissing sound track of a dull morning.
>> >> An observer the observer stays calm
>> >> in stray silence, making that chance a pretence
>> >> of will; pulling away; remaining visible
>> >> in the midst of a deadly room in their mad household
>> >> throughout harmful streets in a clever town.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Douglas Barbour
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>> >
>> > Latest books:
>> > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> > Recording Dates
>> > (Rubicon Press)
>> >
>> > Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
>> >
>> > Guy Davenport
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> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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