A musical language
December 27th 2007 08:10
You come across some strange phrases when you hunt back to see what people have been looking up on Google. ‘Clapping Reich’ was one I came across. It conjured up all sorts of visions of some weird Nazi group who’d only just come to light after years of being buried in the dust of history.
Which reminds me of a lovely passage from All’s Well That Ends Well, that oddly chauvinistic Shakespeare play. In it, the King is talking about honour, and gets a bit carried away fuming about the lack of such in modern life:
the mere word's a slave
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed.
Debosh'd. Isn’t that wonderful? It’s the sort of word we need to revive.
Ingersoll Rand is another phrase that has something poetic about it. Not being a tools man I didn’t know that this was a well-known brand name. Ingersoll Rand air tools, for instance, such as (wait for it!) air nibblers and shears. Air nibblers! Does that sound to you what it sounds like to me? (Okay, all you tool men, forget that you know what an air nibbler is for a minute.)
Can’t you just see someone holding this wonderful tool in the air, and having it nibble away until in the vicinity there’s a sudden lack of oxygen? I don’t know why you’d nibble the air, but it has potential!
Which reminds me of a lovely passage from All’s Well That Ends Well, that oddly chauvinistic Shakespeare play. In it, the King is talking about honour, and gets a bit carried away fuming about the lack of such in modern life:
the mere word's a slave
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed.
Debosh'd. Isn’t that wonderful? It’s the sort of word we need to revive.
Ingersoll Rand is another phrase that has something poetic about it. Not being a tools man I didn’t know that this was a well-known brand name. Ingersoll Rand air tools, for instance, such as (wait for it!) air nibblers and shears. Air nibblers! Does that sound to you what it sounds like to me? (Okay, all you tool men, forget that you know what an air nibbler is for a minute.)
Can’t you just see someone holding this wonderful tool in the air, and having it nibble away until in the vicinity there’s a sudden lack of oxygen? I don’t know why you’d nibble the air, but it has potential!
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