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| 1048.1 | | GAVEL::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow or @mso | Wed Jun 02 1993 15:16 | 3 |
| Those localisms are sure irritating, eh?
Clay
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| 1048.2 | | MU::PORTER | pledge week - send me some money | Wed Jun 02 1993 22:58 | 3 |
| Hmm. I don't think I'd be dismayed by "cool", but I sure
as hell dislike that sophomoronic "NOT" suffix.
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| 1048.3 | Cool is way cool | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | The cake of liberty | Thu Jun 03 1993 06:51 | 14 |
| Oh, my goodness, "cool" has been in the language in various
metaphorical, non-thermal senses for centuries, e.g., "a cool million
dollars", and the sense you all are complaining of here, "very good,
excellent", is one of the characteristic American slang words of the
20th century, dating back at least to the early 30s.
Motto
I stay cool and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive,
My motto, as I live and learn, is
`Dig and be dug in return.'
-- Langston Hughes
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| 1048.4 | | VMSMKT::KENAH | Escapes,Lies,Truth,Passion,Miracles | Thu Jun 03 1993 08:07 | 12 |
| I've noticed that both "cool" and "not!" became much more prevalent
after each was used in a TV commercial. "Cool" was a grown man's
response to the announcement that his flight had been delayed. He
had his Game Boy; he was happy. "Not" was the response of the "old
lady guitarist" in a Budweiser ad about two years ago (before the
theatrical release of "Wayne's World," which was another place where
both were (over)used.
I dislike words and phrases like these when they are overused, or used
clumsily; in moderation, each adds zest to the language.
andrew
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| 1048.5 | "...Not!" is not a new usage | STARCH::HAGERMAN | Flames to /dev/null | Thu Jun 03 1993 09:44 | 5 |
| "Not", as currently used by us cool folks, goes back at least
to the first world war. I saw it used in exactly the current
way in a book published during the war. (Title, author not handy.)
Doug.
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| 1048.6 | I don't think there's much new | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | The cake of liberty | Thu Jun 03 1993 11:12 | 4 |
| And the same idea, different phrasing, can be found in the stories of
Saki from the late-nineteenth century, "Collard greens are wonderful, I
don't think."
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| 1048.7 | | MU::PORTER | pledge week - send me some money | Thu Jun 03 1993 12:02 | 5 |
| re .-1
Well, maybe I'm just upset by the un-melodious way that
"NOT!" (the exclamation point seems to be necessary)
thrusts itself into your ear.
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| 1048.8 | | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | The cake of liberty | Fri Jun 04 1993 06:43 | 1 |
| Unwitty people want to be witty too.
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| 1048.9 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | I just passed myself going in the other direction! | Fri Jul 16 1993 12:42 | 13 |
| re .1
I've been out of the way for a while, eh? And its like been a
traumatic time eh ? Like I got called eh, right in the middle
of moving eh that my new job in COlorado was gone eh! But I got
my old job back again eh? And found a new house, but like it's
small eh? So everything is heading back to being cool eh?
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you can understand that you're doing well.
Stuart
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