Posted on 02/24/2018 9:45:32 AM PST by V K Lee
James Brown sings Sex Machine:
“Get On UP!!”
And yes, adults only, NSFM, etc.
Generally it is used to indicate going from a lower to a higher energy state. In literal terms, to gain gravitational potential energy by gaining altitude. Metaphorically, to increase in order vs. disorder. To decrease the entropy in a system. “clean up a room” for example.
Don’t leave out “The UP”: that portion of Michigan cut off from the mitten by the Straits of Mackinac!
English is weird indeed.
We drive on a parkway and park in a drive way also in counting why isn’t there a teenteen eveventeen and a twelveteen?.
I’ve wondered if the naming convention isn’t an archaic survival of a prior base 12 system, myself.
Did you make this UP?
“Up” is the opposite of “down”, but “burned up” is generally synonymous with “burned down”.
Saw a skit where a guy told an sjw interviewer his name was Henderson and the guy got all offended and said that’s a SEXIST name and called him Mr. Henderperson the rest of the interview. Not that person is any better now that I think about it, it still has the word ‘son’ in it.
Yes, like a whore’s licence. Apparently the word stuck. I think there are some other sources it came from too, can’t remember now.
Then you consider that the vowels ‘i’ and ‘u’ require the diphthongs of ‘i-e’ and ‘o-u’ in order to be pronounced and everything gets screwy.
Imagine a non-English speaker trying to figure out what “put up with” means.
No, I think you’re onto something. Drop the Manchest, leave the er, add an h, and call it Her. It wouldn’t be sexist if it was feminine, only masculine.
Because in olde English ‘eleven’ meant one left (after 10) and twelve meant two left (after 10). So I read or heard in a doc.
I believe tenteen is part of the previous decade of letters so the teens start at eleventeen and end with twentyteen.
Even weirder: IT’S raining, snowing, etc.
Who or what exactly is IT??? How long has IT been at this?
Is it an entity or higher power?
Or attempting to script the spoken phrase:
“There three 2s in the English language.”
To
Too
Two
It is a commonly used pronoun, a word which takes the place of a noun. In this case the condition of weather outside. IT IS RAINING for example. Do you find that weird? By the way you is a pronoun.
Construction and meaning is the same in German, Es regnet, it’s raining. Es schneit, it’s snowing. Old English was derived in large part from German.
lol
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