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Subject: Re: Meaning of "folks"
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:52:51 +0800
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voohoo2000 <voohoo2000@hotmail.com>
On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:18:19 GMT
Gnarlodious <gnarlodiousNULL@VOID.invalid.yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've noticed lately the word "folks" is undergoing a drastic change of
> meaning in my lifetime. I hear it used by talk radio,TV hosts and even
> George Bush in the exact opposite way it was traditionally used.
>
> Traditionally:
> simple people, parents, kin, neighbors, peasants, landsman, countryman
>
>
> Modern:
> "They need to extract information from these folks" (terrorists)
> "These folks are on death row for 20 years now" (prisoners)
> "The folks at Walt Disney..." (CEO's)
> "a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who
> committed this act" (terrorists)
>
> What's going on with this word? Is "Folk Music" now "Terrorist Music"? Is it
> an insidious propaganda campaign to deprive us of the comfort of "folks" and
> leave us parentless, kinless and neighborless? An attack on the traditions
> of language preparing us for the a New American Century?
>
> -- Gnarlie
> http://www.Gnarlodious.com
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