[lit-ideas] Re: When Water Wasn't Wet
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:10:32 -0500
JL:
The pig thing we discussed before, and I quoted from Huxley,
"No wonder them's called pigs -- they're so dirty".
So either my daughter at 8 years old was reading Huxley or was as bright as
he. I misjudged her. : )
Odd that since oil is also wet we don't call it 'water'.
I agree, yes, one should at least be able to call oil "dark, slippery
water". But oil is much more efficient syllable-wise. But then, if one is
going the efficiency route, why not call water "wet" and be done with it.
Oil, then could "dark slippery wet" or "slippery wet" or most efficiently
"dark wet".
It's been very wet here sweat-wise -- "hot stinky wet" we call it.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 1:35 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] When Water Wasn't Wet
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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