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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:29:25 EST
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:25:10 -0500
- From: johnz@eaglet.rain.com (John Zimmer)
- Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Re: Whats with the Kate (B) jargon?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.034737.6951@eaglet.rain.com>
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- References: <1992Dec22.164424.12201@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- hasn@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- >not implying that Kate Bush fans get a life, BTW.
- >I'm just saying that is it necessary to bring the
- >( IMO, rather tackyish) Kate Bush jargon into it?
- >This is an honest inquiry, since I absolutely cannot
- >visualise of Kate Bush being the be-all-and-end-all
- >(however she is a great songwriter/performer/singer)
- >I do understand the nature of fan clubs, but why
- >this jargoning deal?
-
- Strictly speaking, I'd say it's not "necessary to bring...jargon into
- it". But slang and jargon arise for a couple of reasons: for brevity
- ('Katemas' instead of 'celebration of Kate's birthday', '8 Mb of RAM'
- instead of '8 million 8-bit words of random access memory', not to mention
- IMO and BTW ;) and socially, to indicate identification with and membership
- in a group. This latter is a two-edged sword, because it's so easy to use
- it in an exclusionary way as well, but I can't honestly recall any such Kate-
- related instances here. As for her being the be-all-and-end-all, most such
- sentiments are expressed with a (implied) wink-and-a-nudge.
-
- The anarchy that is USENET allows us a great deal of freedom: to say what we
- want to say, read what we want to read, and change the channel when we don't
- like what we see.
-
-
- John Zimmer
- johnz@eaglet.rain.com "She really IS!"
-
-