[lit-ideas] Re: Your Favorite Misnomer

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 07:33:56 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

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From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 2, 2004 2:01 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Your Favorite Misnomer

> > We used to have a bookcase in the front hall with a piece of red
> > carpeting on the top -- a landing place for keys, glasses, mail and bits
> > of this and that on its way from one place to another.  At least fifteen
> > years ago, the bookcase was replaced, moved down the hall and covered by
> > a new carpet, not red at all.  To this day we all still say, "I'll leave
> > it on the red carpet for you."   You just don't mess with things like
> > that...
> 
> I like that.  I like the notion that names can overtake their referent.
> Someday I'll sit down and cogitate what that all means.  How much of our
> lives are spent reverencing names that have become thier own referent?

For example, "Green cards" aren't green. These have been pink for quite some 
time now.



Or carbon copy.  I know these lists are strictly for fun, but not one person 
cared enough to give Lance some wishes for his trauma. 

 
Onward to more fun,
Andy 









yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com

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