09-25-2003, 11:03 PM | #1 |
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Don't take this too seriously, these are rhetorical questions..
Where did the concept of 'being drunk' originate? If drunk is the past tense form of the verb to drink, how can one be drunk? If people cannot be consumed like beverages, how is this possible? Just your thoughts please. [ 09-25-2003, 11:05 PM: Message edited by: Nanobyte ] |
09-25-2003, 11:18 PM | #2 |
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Well.... methinks it lies in the fact that the word is both an adjective and a past tense verb. Apparently, around 1340 AD people started using the word as an adjective, and it's stuck ever since.
Guess they were drunk when they decided [img]smile.gif[/img] Ouch. Okay, I'll go away now.
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09-25-2003, 11:28 PM | #3 |
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Maybe it is because "Fitshaced" is too hard to say when your drunk.
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09-25-2003, 11:53 PM | #5 |
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What about "take a *poo*"
you don't take a poo... you leave a poo Throw up... if you threw up... you'd have to be quick and get away or all the mess would land back on you... much better to throw down. Blow your nose... is just physically impossible. You have to get someone else to do it for you... but it would have to be a REALLY good friend... [img]smile.gif[/img] |
09-26-2003, 02:15 AM | #6 | |
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09-26-2003, 05:02 AM | #7 |
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In Denmark we use the term (directly translated) "being full". I always wondered: Being full of what? Alcohol? - And if you throw up (or down), it is still possible for you to 'be full' eventhough 'being empty' would have fit much better [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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09-26-2003, 05:05 AM | #8 |
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You guys think to much! Go make me some money! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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09-26-2003, 06:53 PM | #9 | |
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The same thing can happen when product names are used interchangably with the items proper name. Like "Kleenex" is almost universally accepted as meaning facial tissue.
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09-26-2003, 07:01 PM | #10 |
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It's like obscene language. The current 3-4 letter words currently known today weren't always THE dirty words. They used to use other ones. Heck, only recently has the word ass been considered indecent. In the appropriate context it simply means donkey or mule. That brings to mind another question. Where exactly did all the recent obscene words originate?
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