dimanche, septembre 23, 2007 English words have a strange sort of life-cycle in modern society. For example, "cool" was thought to be the height of fashion in the 1990s, which later gave way to "hot" early in the 2000s. Then there was some sort of icy conflagration, and the two antithetical words suddenly meant the same thing - the flavour of the moment, the bee's knees. Then a Hilton decided to turn up the heat and reclaimed, renamed, and re-branded "hott" for her very own (before being put into jail - but not, unfortunately, for the offence of mangling her English spelling.)* * * * * I just read someone's blog post describing their waitress for the night "astute". While the term is complimentary, the post was decidedly abusive. My question for the evening as I bake cookies for church - does "astute" now mean "ass"+"attitude"? [It's Only Words That I Offer] |
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