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Jan. 12th, 2006 05:49 pmIn the US, it is National Delurking Week for bloggers. In Australia, people are still lurking like mad. If anyone wants to take advantage of the delurk amnesty and introduce themselves, I would be very happy to meet you. If lurking is more comfortable for you, then that's fine, too.
If anyone who knows I know they are there and wants to pretend to be delurking, that would make a nonsense of the whole thing. So go ahead and delurk, even if you aren't lurking at all. National Delurking Week is a joyously good target for gentle mockery. Besides, I feel very 'pataphysical today. I haven't felt this way since the early 80s. I suspect I was the only 'pataphysical existentialist Jew in the Australian census records that year. Blame higher education: we had been studying Jarry and Sartre and Camus.
I am cast into my own past because language issues rear their head all the time. What I learned this week was that you can tell region rather than class by the word for 'grandmother' in the US, and both class and region by various words meaning 'mother'. My favourite word for grandmother is the Southern one: Maw Maw or Ma Maw is a deal more interesting than the "Grandma" I grew up with. Mind you, my Grandma did Shirley Bassey imitations while wafting a feather boa and swinging her hips. I am not sure if anyone's Maw Maw would do that.
Note: because someone was *going* to ask. 'Pataphysics is the science of Meaningless Solutions, and its main practitioner was Jarry, who wrote all those Ubu plays.
If anyone who knows I know they are there and wants to pretend to be delurking, that would make a nonsense of the whole thing. So go ahead and delurk, even if you aren't lurking at all. National Delurking Week is a joyously good target for gentle mockery. Besides, I feel very 'pataphysical today. I haven't felt this way since the early 80s. I suspect I was the only 'pataphysical existentialist Jew in the Australian census records that year. Blame higher education: we had been studying Jarry and Sartre and Camus.
I am cast into my own past because language issues rear their head all the time. What I learned this week was that you can tell region rather than class by the word for 'grandmother' in the US, and both class and region by various words meaning 'mother'. My favourite word for grandmother is the Southern one: Maw Maw or Ma Maw is a deal more interesting than the "Grandma" I grew up with. Mind you, my Grandma did Shirley Bassey imitations while wafting a feather boa and swinging her hips. I am not sure if anyone's Maw Maw would do that.
Note: because someone was *going* to ask. 'Pataphysics is the science of Meaningless Solutions, and its main practitioner was Jarry, who wrote all those Ubu plays.