[Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re: remove vs course

[K C Francis]

MY button these days is "very unique"!!!    People have replaced "different" 
or "unusual" with "unique".    We do need a word that means "one-of-a-kind", 
"peerless", "unmatched", etc.

I know we add new terms all the time, especially turning nouns into verbs 
but I can see that because we are inventing new things or ways of doing 
things and need a way to describe/communicate what we mean.

My 2 cents.

Katira


>From: "Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re:  remove vs course
>Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:34:15 -0600
>
>You guys don't call it "merchants' row?" What *do* you call it?
>It's "course," here in Artemisia, by and large.  A matter of edumacation
>over the years.  We're working on more appropriate terms than "autocrat" 
>and
>"feastocrat" as well.
>I'm always fascinated by the distinct inter-kingdom/area differences that
>seem to creep in so fast, even in a relatively (numerically) small group as
>ours, which all shares a common language (English) to a fair degree.  Gives
>interesting insight into how languages and dialects could develop in fairly
>small geographical pockets....
>--Maire, who will raise Anne-Marie's "feast" and "disrespect" twitches with
>her own--"text" as a verb, "gift" as a verb, and modified nouns as
>adjectives (such as "old fashion" when what is clearly meant is "old
>fashioned")

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