Monday, September 1, 2008
Tense Present
This article by a man called Wallace is an in-depth look into what language and its usage means in this day and age. Many words are long since forgotten, and some have been so over-used that they have lost their original meanings, it seems to me. This weekend, my father used a word to describe one of my television shows that I had never heard before. "Falderal" was the word, and it essentially meant nonsense. The point of Wallace's article was driven home unintentionally by someone not even in the class. How interesting this world is sometimes!
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That's really interesting. I've never heard that word before either. I enjoyed the humor in Wallace's article the most, mostly because it made these "grammar wars" interesting to me. I have to confess that I wasn't sure just how serious people were about these sorts of things, but I'm definitely a believer now.
The more common spelling is "folderol." According to my dictionary, the word comes from the refrain of old songs, like "la-di-da."
I would not say the point of Wallace's article is "many words are long since forgotten, and some have been so over-used that they have lost their original meanings," though. Try again?
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