Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 2009/10

From: matthew dineen <mgnat45@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Coolest
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:39:03 -0400

Sorry, I thought you were being a priggish American. Should have known fro=
m the Kelvin reference. "Cool" is just part of our lexicon, everyday collo=
quial speech over here. Might have come from jazz, e.g., Miles Davis ("Bir=
th of the Cool"). I'm sure the etymologists could write, and have, books ab=
out where it arose and all the different senses in which it has been used s=
ince, though not so much any longer, except by the Boomers. Another way of =
saying, "excellent", "interesting", "the cat's meow", "t5he bee's knees", "=
great", "boss", "bodacious", "wow", "I dig, "check it out", "bad", or more =
recently, "sweet", "mad good", "mad cool", "sick, "ill" etc. =20

Two peoples separated by a common language, I guess. Over here, a man woul=
d never say to a woman, "I'll knock you up some time", even though it might=
be something she'd be thrilled to hear and welcome over there.

--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Matthew Lloyd <matthew@-----.uk> wrote:

> From: Matthew Lloyd <matthew@-----.uk>
> Subject: RE: [kl] Coolest
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:14 PM
> Mark, that's all very well, but I'd
> never describe anything as cool. Save as
> a comparator on temperatures.
>=20
> I know that it is used as a term of approval, but presume
> it has a more
> specific meaning than just goodness or approval. And if you
> are suggesting
> that "cool", "smashing" and "brilliant" are synonyms, I'll
> have to disagree
> because I certainly wouldn't accept it in the latter two
> cases.
>=20
> Matthew
>=20
> Matthew wrote:
> >My question about the nature of "cool" was a genuine
> one by the way.
> >Remember I'm a fuddy duddy Englishman.....
> Oh come on.=A0 Could someone please translate??
> "smashing"??=A0 "brilliant"????
>=20
> Mark Thiel
>=20
> =20
>=20
>=20
> =A0=A0=A0
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0
> =A0=20
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> if you get the digest.
>=20
>=20
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> if you get the digest.
>=20
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