Words, words, words...

[fajrdrako]

I really enjoyed this article on banned words:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php

And I leave you to guess whether my subject heading is from My Fair Lady or Hamlet.

Comments

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

It has to be "Hamlet," because, in MFL, isn't the next line: "I'm so sick of words..."

And, certainly, that can't be!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Heh - good reasoning!

[glinda-north.livejournal.com]

It could also be from Beavis and Butt-Head. But somehow I don't think that's the source here. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm too culturally-deprived to quote Beavis and Butt-head. I'm sure I would if I could!

[glinda-north.livejournal.com]

Well, one of us is culturally-deprived and I don't think it's you. *g*

[kelex.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'm going with acampbell here and picking Hamlet, because the line before it is, "What are you reading, my Lord?" and Hamlet answers, "Words. Words. Words!" And then Hamlet proceeds to badger Polonius for quite some time about speaking correctly (similar to how the gravedigger later badgers Hamlet to "speak by the card or equivocation will undo us.")

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Equivocation has already undone us!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Hamlet... but then I'm a little better acquainted with Hamlet than My Fair Lady.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

One of the secrets of my dark past is that I used to have all the dialogue and lyrics from "My Fair Lady" off by heart.

Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words,
I get words all day through
First from him, now from you,
Is that all you blighters can do?

Don't talk of stars burning above
If you're in love
Show me.

etc., I'll spare you more....

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

Odd. I only JUST encountered "metrosexual" on my trip here to NZ; the son of the people we're staying with uses it in describing himself, but added the tag 'heterosexual' to the 'spends too much time on his appearance' thing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Most of the words on the list are things I had heard but had only a vague notion of what they meant. I just learned bling-bling (and as far as I know, heard it for the first time) abut a week ago. Obviously I don't live in the fast lane, etymologically speaking.