The Meaning Of ……..

Some words can, and often do, have more than one meaning. Sometimes this is a function of time. For example, Gay was bright or happy, but was then hijacked by Peter Tatchell and his mates to mean homosexual. It is now used by the younger generation to mean bad or rubbish. Sometimes it is a function of place. For example, Fag (UK) = cigarette and Fag (USA) = homosexual.

Now you might think that this would cause problems in this day of hyper-mobility, mass migration and instant communications over the World Wide Web. But it is precisely through those very factors that we learn about the idiosyncrasies of unlike others and are able to adjust our perception and understanding appropriately, if we want to.

Good social skills are not the province of binary logic. [IT consultants please note!] Social understanding requires Iterative logic, sometimes called Fuzzy logic. That’s why the girls have the edge on us boys, their brains [95% of females and 5% of males] are wired for Fuzzy logic. That doesn’t mean that we blokes can’t do Fuzzy logic if we try, it’s just a wee bit more difficult.

Even within the borders of the UK there are regional differences and dialects, as Jim Jepps point out here. From Glaswegians to Geordies, Scousers to Brummies, Cockneys to Worzels. Not forgetting of course the wonderful Irish word - ejit.

I have been taken to task over my use of the word “twat”. Now, TWAT in capitals could mean “The War Against Terrorism” but that would be easy to spot given the context it is likely to be used in. Much more difficult, but not impossible for anyone tuned into the space age, is the difference between it’s other two meanings:-

1. Twat: a vagina synonymous with the word cunt.
2. Twat: a fool synonymous with the word twit.

It would appear that some are so divorced from reality, protected as they are within their middle class condoms of genteel dinner parties and intellectual academia that they are not aware of the word’s secondary and much more common usage out here in the streets and on the interwebby thingy. However, I have also discovered, during my brief research on the Internet, that the word is particularly offensive to British Asian females. So, I apologise to British Asian females for using that word and have changed it in the original post to “prick”.

This of course will not appease those complaining about the post, in particular the mad spam queen – they want it taken down – they don’t like the message, it has nothing to do with my choice of words.

For the message is quite clear and simple and is directed straight at their self worth. I am criticising the very thing by which these people identify themselves. I am saying that what these people are doing is a TWOT [that’s Total Waste of Time, not the Australian version of “twat”]. These people are supposed to be radical and progressive, but in reality they are stuck in their own completely ineffective “business as usual” modus operandi. The very label they pin on others.

Until they can open up their mindset and look at other possibilities that actually work, then the Palestinian’s pain will continue. That’s their choice. I prefer to support FoE ME. These people are not “pro-Palestinian” in my book - they are up their own……..