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Thursday, February 12, 2009
YaYa's Funky Hat
YaYa scooped this furry Mad Hatter design from her maternal Grandma's closet and has worn it almost every day for weeks now.
Language lesson from a cranky wordophile: funky has been mis-appropriated by people on the fringe of things who want to be in or hep without truly understanding the culture from which they are stealing. Funk was originally the smell of unwashed body, more specifically unwashed post-coital smell. Ergo, funky meant noisome and by extension, redolent of bawdy houses and other low dives. Somehow, as in the transformation of bad to mean excellent, and jazz, which also has sexual connotations in its past, funky somehow has come to mean exciting and fun. {getting down from the soap box}
;^) Jan the Gryphon http://gryph-wotd.blogspot.com/
Fetching hat, which looks darling on Yaya.
ReplyDeleteLanguage lesson from a cranky wordophile: funky has been mis-appropriated by people on the fringe of things who want to be in or hep without truly understanding the culture from which they are stealing. Funk was originally the smell of unwashed body, more specifically unwashed post-coital smell. Ergo, funky meant noisome and by extension, redolent of bawdy houses and other low dives. Somehow, as in the transformation of bad to mean excellent, and jazz, which also has sexual connotations in its past, funky somehow has come to mean exciting and fun.
{getting down from the soap box}
;^) Jan the Gryphon
http://gryph-wotd.blogspot.com/
LOL...she looks adorable. :)
ReplyDeleteMy Dan, she is growing up to be a real wee beauty...watch out for the hoords of chaps rushing towards her one day soon !!
ReplyDeleteLove Sybilxx
I loved that hat, good for cold Wisconsin days, glad its getting usage :)
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