[pure-silver] Re: Organic?

2Now if they just had a new meaning for the word pain.... that is another 
subject.  Want to take this back further (since this is the first thing to make 
me smile in months of the afore mentioned pain) Go to the word sophistication.  
In it's orginal meaning it was in reference to the making of beer.  In the old 
days, (renaissance) beer was a major source of food.  It was to be brewed 
without the additon of sugars to speed up the fermentation.  Then the word 
sophisitacte meant the adding of sugar to the beer brewing process.  It came to 
mean the adulteration of the pure form.  Today it means more polished, smooth 
with skills and you can go on... That has what has happened to the term 
organic.  It has many meanings today.  At one time it had one meaning.  If you 
really want to look at the absurdity of the whole subject, everything comes 
from nature and the earth.  A print is not being made with any alien life forms 
that come from extra
 terrestial planets.  
 
A hand made print that you cared about from shot to print is better than one 
that some non caring non human machine has spit out.  You have lovingly made 
what could be termed an organic print.  Besides once you are finished with the 
chemicals, put in steel wool, and the soup of the combined chenicals make great 
lawn fertilizer.  You have just recycled.
 
Time for me to go back and crawl back into bed with a healthy dose of organic 
pain killer.  keep up the good work, and keep making me smile.

--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Organic?
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 5:12 PM

> 
> Words mean things. Polluting their meaning just debases our
> culture,
> art, literature, politics, and society by making our
> thinking muddy.
> 
> Thank you for reading this organically - assuming
> you're still
> alive you silly carbon-based life forms ...
> 
> </rant>


Tim there is just one trouble with that logic.  The meaning of words often
change as our speech, like everything else is constantly evolving.  They often
vary from area to area.  It's particularly common in the US.  In Europe,
they just often evolved different languages.  It really isn't surprising in
that many of the areas with general dialects are often larger than many European
nations.

Example in the South US the term Coke is often used in the generic sense for
any what Northerners would call soda or pop.  Coke could mean a coke, but it
could also mean any such soft drink.  NO ONE other than a transplant would ever
use the term pop other than maybe in the context of "I'll pop you
upside the head with this coke bottle if you don't leave me alone."   
I think I'll have a bottle of pop, in Chicago would be a perfectly normal
sentence.  The late Lewis Grizzard would testify that in Atlanta that would
never happen.

I'm old.  I know how the meaning of words can change.  I am old enough to
remember back when gay meant happy, but it takes a entirely different context
today.  I could use it very carefully with the old meaning, but there is a big
risk that the new one would be taken.  In that day bad meant bad, not good.  Ask
for a cigarette using the European term in the US and big trouble might be
around the corner, even with no ill will or intent.

It is one of the problems with language, especially the written word.  Context
is often difficult if not impossible to determine.  Yet we should be as careful
as possible to portray the meaning.  

Now is a print organic or not.  Well these are often the people that would
drive with their knees an inch from their chins in a Yugo that gets 900mph at
900 feet per hour.  What would I do?  First I'd make a print on fiber based
paper and tell them everything used in making the print was "All
Natural" in that everything used to make it came from nature.  We may have
doctored it a bit.  grin.


      
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