2019.10.22 07:00 - a Groovy word-eat-word world

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: Morning, Adams, just sitting waiting. looking out at the road
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Riddle Sideways: morning again, Adams
Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)

Riddle Sideways: was looking around for that topic, but can't find it
Adams Rubble looks around, under the cushions
Riddle Sideways: remembering Alfred/boxy/pirate had a topic ring
Riddle Sideways: that most times would give a topic

Adams Rubble: do you know if Hebrew changed over the years. For example, is there a Medieval hebrew?
Riddle Sideways: base Hebrew has not really changed
Adams Rubble: I thought that was probably the case--like latin
Riddle Sideways: the thing with the bible being locked into always being written exactly the same
Riddle Sideways: made the language be locked also
Riddle Sideways: however ...
Riddle Sideways: the vowels (which are not in Torah nor in modern) changed a bit
Riddle Sideways: and some pronunciation has changed
Riddle Sideways: over time
Adams Rubble: That is interesting
Riddle Sideways: modern Hebrew started as a spoken language for Israel
Adams Rubble: apparently the sounds of the ancient vedic chants have not changed in thousands of years but that is not a written language
Adams Rubble: I was thinking there might be a modern hebrew like there is a modern greek
Riddle Sideways: yes, there is a modern Hebrew
Riddle Sideways: was looking up the date
Riddle Sideways: thinking it was around 1920s
Riddle Sideways: the written language got re-invented
Riddle Sideways: and of course nice new fonts
Riddle Sideways: modern Hebrew does not use the vowels
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Adams Rubble: Turkish was westernized in the 1920s by Attaturk. Used western alphabet and vowels too
Adams Rubble: the spelling is very phonetic-even better than Italian
Riddle Sideways: The Rothchilds had things to do with that
Riddle Sideways: The English Empire changed lots of stuff
Riddle Sideways: Wikipedia does not contain the cute story of that guy making up Modern Hebrew :(
Riddle Sideways: instead has cold facts
Adams Rubble: brrrr
Riddle Sideways: Ben-Yehuda codified and planned most of the language
Riddle Sideways: but had to make up words for eggplant
Riddle Sideways: and electricity
Riddle Sideways: and Coke-Cola
Riddle Sideways: wondering about Turkish and Greek for electricity and eggplants
Adams Rubble: The Turks had to make up words too
Adams Rubble: One thing odd that Attaturk did was to purge most of the Arabic words and instead adopt French words
Adams Rubble: words like telephone simply were imported from English
Riddle Sideways: before that, what did they call those thingies that ya send texts and take photos and play Candy Crush on?
Adams Rubble: they were not there then
Adams Rubble: so no worries

Riddle Sideways: couple months back heard how many new words are going into this year's OED
Riddle Sideways: but can not recall now
Adams Rubble: some of them are Trumpian unfortunately
Riddle Sideways: because of his Huge huge very bigest bestest wordlynesses
Adams Rubble: we'll never be totally rid of him
Riddle Sideways: that guy really can turn a phrase
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Riddle Sideways: mostly upside down, but turns it
Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: oh dear, a snippet of a song is stuck
Riddle Sideways: one phrase
Riddle Sideways: whether tis nobler to concentrate and remember the entire song or give up
Riddle Sideways: "Somewhere back in her long ago ..."

Riddle Sideways: long ago, a really groovy dude said "Wow, that is really Groovy"
Riddle Sideways: and it stuck
Riddle Sideways: and everybody was saying it
Riddle Sideways: and putting it into songs
Adams Rubble: I'm groovin' on down
Adams Rubble: disk jockey
Riddle Sideways: and those Dictionary people took it up and printed it
Riddle Sideways: even now, SL text editor knows the proper spelting of Groovy
Riddle Sideways: which has no "ie"
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: and the word has lasted longer than the LPs
Riddle Sideways: Hey Man, that is really in the groove

Riddle Sideways: very hard to get rid of any word
Adams Rubble: actually there are many words no longer used
Adams Rubble: we pick among them
Adams Rubble: as a mass
Riddle Sideways: well, many have been twisted to not be politically correct to use
Adams Rubble: that too
Adams Rubble: some change their meaning drastically
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: so many examples came through a mind and out the other side without the need to typo them here
Riddle Sideways: no need to mention a not used word anymore
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Adams Rubble: Unused words are not in the groove, therefore not groovy
Adams Rubble: it's a word-eat-word world
Riddle Sideways: ha ㋡

Riddle Sideways: with all this adaptation, re-use, re-defining, morphing, it is funny that somebody would just start over and codify a new Hebrew or Turkish
Adams Rubble: both places had high hopes for themselves
Adams Rubble: Attaturk envisioned a modern Turkey joining other European countries
Adams Rubble: Now Turkey has turned its back on that vision
Riddle Sideways: so many turning of backs
Adams Rubble: yes

Adams Rubble: little one has joined me asking if one of us is Ernie
Riddle Sideways: aw
Adams Rubble: I am afraid I am going top have to go play :)
Riddle Sideways: ok, thanks for the time
Riddle Sideways: and thoughts
Riddle Sideways: and Words
Adams Rubble: bye for now. Have a very good day :)
Riddle Sideways: Play here, now go Play there
Adams Rubble: yes..as Being
Adams Rubble waves

Riddle Sideways: sits back enjoying this warm cup of cocoa with the little marshmallows in a Trick-r-Treat cup.
Riddle Sideways: Playing with the double thoughts of how good and bad a SL cup of cocoa can be
Riddle Sideways: one cup lasts more than an hour