[lit-ideas] When Water Wasn't Wet
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:35:22 EDT
Wet wet wet
Wet dreams
Water is wet
In a message dated 7/5/2009 1:48:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"Why do we call a pig a 'pig' ?"
"Because they're so dirty," she said.
By the same reasoning, we call water "water" because it's so wet.
----
Indeed, water and wet _are_ cognate, and I didn't mean to be rude in the
previous.
The pig thing we discussed before, and I quoted from Huxley,
"No wonder them's called pigs -- they're so dirty".
But again, see if you can reflect on 'I see with my eyes'. Is that
tautological?
Odd that since oil is also wet we don't call it 'water'. Trogge should
illuminate us as to how the OED defines 'wet' -- any reference to 'water',
dear? (Or is it the other way round, and 'water' is called water because, as
the Gearys have it, it's _wet_?)
Cheers,
JL
"Wet Dreams: A study of Freud"
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