[lit-ideas] Re: Goshbustified on a Sunday
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:47:58 -0700
try fooling around with RSS. that can soak up time.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Goshbustified on a Sunday
Technology can be so time consuming. The situation: friends from here
are currently in Scotland. We are still here. While e-mailing, the
two wifely persons start using I.M. They then talk about establishing
a video link. I suggest just calling the hotel and making contact the
old-fashioned way. About an hour later, fully dressed for blackberry
picking and putting in time with e-mail until the girls are ready, I
hear, "We've done it," as if a moon landing had been achieved. The
"it" turned out to be sound comparable to broadcasts from the moon, and
no video connection. But it wasn't a telephone call and thus our
budget wasn't entirely dumfungled.
May I recommend to your attention, "absquatulate," and other coinages
of the 1830s that I found at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-abs1.htm ?
The 1830's, the site explains, were "a period of great vigour and
expansiveness in the US — was also a decade of inventiveness in
language, featuring a fashion for word play, obscure abbreviations,
fanciful coinages, and puns. Only a few inventions of that period have
survived to our times, such as sockdologer, skedaddle and hornswoggle.
Among those that haven’t lasted the distance were blustrification (the
action of celebrating boisterously), goshbustified (excessively pleased
and gratified), and dumfungled (used up)" ?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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