[lit-ideas] Twaterproof
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:01:03 EDT
In a message dated 7/8/2009 9:53:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
RichardHenninge@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Heraclitus would have recognized it: it is the quick aqueity of the river
water, Whereas in fact we do the most various things with
with our sentences. Think of exclamations alone, with their completely
different functions.
Water!
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I wouldn't call 'water!' an interjection.
In the current International Review of Pragmatics (online), the theory of
interjections (along Gricean lines) by T. Wharton is analysed.
I would hold that
"Water!"
is short for
"I want water"
-- in the case of New Orleans, during Katrina it may mean:
-- Oh, not that liquid again.
i.e. under different scenarios, the expansion (or explicature, to use
Grice's parlance) of the elliptical
"Water!"
is promoted.
But in none of those instances they would count as 'interjection'.
Wharton -- who often cites WoW -- by Grice --, Ways of Words -- cites
wow
as an interjection.
But now that has become part of the grammar of English, too, with
'wow' used as a _verb_.
1806 R. JAMIESON Pop. Ballads I. 234 The wolf wow'd hideous on the hill.
1824 CARR Craven Gloss., Wow, to howl. 1900 C. LEE Cynthia in West v. 69 You
should hear her wow, just like an owld cat!
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Water can be used of course as a verb, too:
water: To urinate.
1626 B. JONSON Staple of N. IV. i,
What shal's doe with our selues, while the women water? and the Fidlers
eat?
1717 PRIOR Alma II. 500
Pleas'd with her Punch, the Gallant Soul First drank, then water'd in the
Bowl.
1966 M. CATTO Bird on Wing i. 15
He went into the lav. The Major could hear him watering.
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The OED notes that, as Kratyl would delight in, 'water' and 'wash' are
cognate:
"tense wusch, pa. pple. gewaschen), ON. (rare) vaska, conjugated weak (Sw.
vaska, Da. vaske):OTeut. *waskan:*watskan f. root *wat- as in WATER n."
which makes a lot of sense, since I cannot think how you can wash something
unless it's with _some_ (if not all) water.
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1920 L. & N. SHEFFIELD Swimming Simplified viii. 150 Water sports afford
a varied source of amusements.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 30 Oct. 3/3 We enjoy water sports.
water ice: a confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen.
1818 Edin. Rev. XXX. 15 Its granular spongy texture..has..the appearance of
congealed syrup, or what the confectioners call water-ice. 1844 T. MASTERS
(title), The Ice Book,..with..the most approved recipes for making
superior water-ices and ice-creams.
Cheers,
JLS
Kiel, Germany
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