Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: The Acme Hour

In my recent travel (I had only one) I happened upon a new expression:
the acme hour.
Anyone care to guess what that means?
Rick

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Acme Hour is a popular cartoon program with the Warner Bros heroes, for what
I know.
Is it used in some peculiar context ?
Ciao
Giorgio


Shows how much I know.  I thought this was a made up expression, but it was
used
in the exact context you gave.  It's so hard to keep up.
Rick

Shows how much I know.  I thought this was a made up expression, but it was
used
in the exact context you gave.  It's so hard to keep up.
Rick
Yep , by the sound of it (seeing I read all your posts)
you gotta update your lingo....
Let's try....
Portable computer = ????
Ice cream covered with syrup and fruits = ????
Exploitation = ?????'
Best Friend = ?????
Credulous = ??????
Good Morning = ?????
Hasty Woman = ??????
Medical Examination = ?????
From time to time , sometimes = ??????
Appointment = ????????
Sit down please !!! = ????????
Juvenile waiter = ?????
All the day = ?????????
YOU MUST TRY TO ANSWER SO AS TO IMPROVE YOUR LINGO
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 YOU MUST TRY TO ANSWER SO AS TO IMPROVE YOUR LINGO
Wow, that was keen.  Thanks for trying to help OG.  Hey, you wouldn't be related
to Og Ogolby, would you?
Rick

I'm Mainer....
you know...
Good Morning , Appointment , Sit down......
they're old'-fashioned way....IN U.S.
and you oughta try to drag the new ones in....
APPOINTMENT is amongst the OLD WORD
you'll never hear an American say , period .
so...g'wan , 
as american you're supposed to know 
how to get an appointment , properly.
You wanna a clue...uh?
1 ) No , it's not a banana ice scream..
hasty woman = Hussy
You wanna give up ????
Try again
If you ain't have a clue bout this word...
that'll come in handy....
and....you..
you have some new brand word for me..????
maybe Texan , Washingtonian ...or whatever
 
 
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 maybe Texan , Washingtonian ...or whatever
Git a rope.
Rick

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My favorite "Texan word" to introduce to non-Texans is "fixin'" (that would
be "fixing" if spoken by a non-Texan).  It does not, however, imply that
anything is broken.
"I'm fixin' to plant yore haid in that there tree over yonder if'n y'all
don't stop makin' fun o' Texans."
Now I ask you:  Is that dialect, colloquialism, or a different language?
"fixin' to..." in Texano si traduce in italiano come "stare per..."
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 anything is broken.
I knew a black woman in Houston who pronounced it "finnin".  I played on a company
softball team with her and her friends and never heard any of the rest of them
pronounce it that way, so don't know how widespread that pronunciation is.  That
reminds me of an expression used on me at the time: token white.  It's usually used
the other way around, that you have a token black (or some minority) placed in a
position to satisfy the hiring requirements of a contract.
Rick

Nope...nope..
that's...I'm mainer....or piscataquinian...
that's the maine ( down east ) way .....
As well as ...Hussy 
it's a still untouched word in Maine...
it hasn't got to with kinda words as SLUT TART BITCH
neither does it have anything to do with 
WHORE or HOOKER , HARLOT
HUSSY is a different ball game.. !!!
And " HO " is short fo HOOKER not HOLE...
You gotta get gold on your voc...
you was aware only about SLUT and WHORE and HO..
only three lightweight words...
Hussy's kinda HAG wich is not as good as saying WHORE ,HO or TART
But ya know...Maine is not California ir Texas at all..
No factories , fast foods , arcades , discos...
Maine it's a rural state...like Vermont
We have 20.000 working farms...
and ..suffice to say that I've been living on farm !!!
and Maine lingo..it's another kettle of fish..
Y'know kinda : 
wikked , ayuh , mutaha , fataha , caah , 
as well as....
pud , cunnin , burk , vesse , and calais..
AND  ET CETERA , ET CETARA , 
U.S.A. and New England are two different unlinked world
 2 ) ICE CREAM = SUNDAE
 3 ) EXPLOITATION = GOLD DIGGIN
 4 ) BEST FRIEND = BOSOM BUDDY
 5 ) CREDULOUS = NAIVE
 6 )GOOD MORNING = HOWDY !!!
 7 ) APPOINTMENT = ( of course all over U.S. ) DATE
 8 ) JUVANILE WAITER = BUSBOY
Some Texas words :
umm....
ole = only
Dadgummit = Daddy
Ah'll = I will
Plum = Tired
Tawk = Talk
Ah'll swan = I swear
Uh = No
Worperjawwed = NOt working 
Ah'mo = I'm going to
et cetera....
and Vermont lingo : 
Jiizm = Squash
Buss = Kiss
Chap = Friend
Arrable = Horrible
Yeh = The
Youse = You ( plural ) 
YO = you
Tyr = Your
Yiiz = Your ( plural )
and of course...wikked glottal stop
KEEH'N = KITTEN
BEEH'R = BITTER
BOOH'L = BOTTLE
et cetera
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 Dadgummit = Daddy
There are a couple of variations of this formation:
Dagnabbit
Dadburnit
Dawgarnit (something like that)
I believe these are all transfomation of Goddammit where the G and D have been
reversed to prevent uttering the actual profanity, so you end up first with
dawgarnit, then dag this and dad that.  Just my theory which you're welcome to
insist is wrong.  I insist none of these mean Daddy.
Rick

 since changed my lifestyle.)
I have to disagree, Rick, with your assertion as to the meaning and etymology of
"ho." It has its origins in African-American slang, and is a shortened form of
the word "whore." It doesn't lose its meaning when it's used indiscriminately to
refer to any woman but rather puts all women within that category.
Regarding some of the other terminology that you noticed Lucio has mistaken, I
don't want to participate in that discussion, but let me offer a different
subject:  Do you know the story behind the slang word, "wilding?"
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 Do you know the story behind the slang word, "wilding?"
Doesn't this come from NY city, where they run amok at night?  You have another
story?
Rick


by the way, what exactly means, to run amok?

 Doesn't (wilding) come from NY city, where they run amok at night?
The word "wilding" was invented inadvertently in one of those interesting
media-based social phenomena that unfortunately are often tied to tragedy. You
are right, it is based on an incident in Central Park, NY, in 1989--the
gang-rape of a woman who lost 75% of her blood in the attack and nearly died.
The term "wilding" was thought to mean the roaming of black gangs of youth at
night in search of molesting white women. But the word was coined as the result
of a racist misunderstanding--white police officers misinterpreted the speech of
a black youth during questioning. The youth said they were going after "the wild
thing," and the police heard "the wilding." The media turned the term "wilding"
into a fad for some gangs (I guess they thought that they were behind the times
because they weren't going on "wildings"). Over time, the meaning has broadened
and the term was also applied to the broad daylight tearing of clothes of
several women during the Puerto Rican Day Parade last year in Central Park.
I also checked this term with the rap dictionary and it agrees with the story.
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wilding
(adj) To act without without rational thought. Wilding was a term not used until
the Central park jogger attack in 1989. The victim in this case was raped, and,
upon being questioned, kids in the neighborhood of the attackers had said that
they had done the "Wild Thing" (after the Tone Loc release). Misinterpreted by
reporters not accustomed to the slurred speech of the attackers, the term
wilding was born out of the NYC media's lust for a catch phrase. (Info from:
"Black Studies, Rap and the Academy" by Houston Baker Jr.) "Across the street
you was wilding" -- Nas (?? [1996])
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wild thing
(n) Sexual intercourse. "Hey you two, I was once like you and I loved to do the
wild thing" -- Tone Loc (Wild thing).
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Sorry to direct the thoughts of readers toward such a gruesome subject. But, the
way the media influences society through language usage is, I think, very much
on-topic for this group.
Ciao,
Ron
USA

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Ah good, looks like we are all three correct.  I have to smile when that happens.
Thanks for the wilding bit, I didn't know it was originally "wild thing".
Good tune from Tone Loc, one of the few rap tunes I like (I guess that's qualifies
as rap).  I would say he sampled a Van Halen record to get that guitar riff, but
having no Van Halen records, can't verify it.  Any VH fans on this ng that can name
the song the Wild Thing riff comes from?  Jamie's Crying maybe?
Rick

 by the way, what exactly means, to run amok?
It means to act with total disregard for the law.
Rick

 insist is wrong.  I insist none of these mean Daddy.
I'll join you on that one.  None of the mean Daddy (babbo).
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 insist is wrong.  I insist none of these mean Daddy.
I'll join you on that one.  None of them mean Daddy (babbo).
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il Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:46:32 GMT, 
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Buono) ha scritto:
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Think of Genova lately and you might get the idea. Where everyone was
running amok.
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 Think of Genova lately 
I think of it continuosly!!! ;)