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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009Flu-bedazzled swine
What's going on here?: Glamorous gowns, million-dollar jewellery, international guests and even a bedazzled swine flu mask have graced the red carpet at tonight's 51st Logie Awards. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/03/2559517.htm  SignatureRegards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au >What's going on here?: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/03/2559517.htm One of the guests was wearing a surgical mask decorated with sparkly stuff? Ah yes. http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/glamour-colour-and-swine-f lu-mask-steal-prelogies-show/2009/05/03/1241289029380.html or http://tinyurl.com/c9adbw Home and Away star Josh Quong Tart took extra precautions for the evening, donning a beaded face mask for the red carpet. "I am being sensible, I'm being fashion forward too. Who knows, one day (swine flu) might be a very real risk and I'm not taking any risk," he said. "I can't believe I'm the only one who's doing it." http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/809161/glamour-flu-mask-on-logie-red-carpet Home and Away actor Josh Quong Tart got a mixed reaction with his swine flu mask, with purple beads to match his purple suit. "It's a great way to be safe and fashionable at the same time," he laughed. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >What's going on here?: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/03/2559517.htm The wording is odd. Neither the swine nor the mask are/is bedazzled. Viewers of the mask may be (be)dazzled. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >> What's going on here?: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > The wording is odd. Neither the swine nor the mask are/is bedazzled. > Viewers of the mask may be (be)dazzled. Yes, isn't it. I was trying to work out if it is something a spelling checker has done, or if the reporter really is illiterate, or there has been a change in the word's meaning while I wasn't paying attention. SignatureRegards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au > >> What's going on here?: > >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > checker has done, or if the reporter really is illiterate, or there has > been a change in the word's meaning while I wasn't paying attention. I tried my spellchecker on "bedaed" but got merely "beaded." I had to go to the unlikely "bedazed" to get "bedazzled." The word "bespangled" comes to my mind, with some effort, as a better word for the desired meaning. Of course "dazzling" would be fine, too. SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux >>> What's going on here?: >>> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > or there has been a change in the word's meaning while I wasn't > paying attention. You guys didn't have BeDazzlers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amicrtFYgVQ https://www.mybedazzler.com/Default.aspx?mid=523535 No, the word didn't really get that sense in the general population, but I could see someone who had one as a kid using it without thinking. It would mean "set with rhinestones". SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |When you rewrite a compiler from 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |scratch, you sometimes fix things Palo Alto, CA 94304 |you didn't know were broken. | Larry Wall kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ Evan Kirshenbaum filted: >You guys didn't have BeDazzlers? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >but I could see someone who had one as a kid using it without >thinking. It would mean "set with rhinestones". Just this week on David Letterman's show, Keifer Sutherland spoke of his mother "BeDazzling the heck out of" a backpack she had given him for school when he was about seven years old....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > Evan Kirshenbaum filted: >> You guys didn't have BeDazzlers? >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > his mother "BeDazzling the heck out of" a backpack she had given him > for school when he was about seven years old....r Keifer? SignatureSkitt (AmE) Skitt filted: >> Evan Kirshenbaum filted: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Keifer? That's why I don't watch "24"....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? >> Evan Kirshenbaum filted: >>> You guys didn't have BeDazzlers? >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzler >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amicrtFYgVQ >>> https://www.mybedazzler.com/Default.aspx?mid=523535 >>> No, the word didn't really get that sense in the general >>> population, but I could see someone who had one as a kid using it >>> without thinking. It would mean "set with rhinestones". >> Just this week on David Letterman's show, Keifer Sutherland spoke >> of his mother "BeDazzling the heck out of" a backpack she had >> given him for school when he was about seven years old....r > Keifer? Shirley?? John Holmes: > What's going on here?: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/03/2559517.htm A missing hyphen in "swine-flu mask"? I don't think I've seen "bedazzled" used in that sense before. It looks to me like the verb "dazzle" that I know has been nouned and re-verbed, creating the meaning "put dazzling things on", and that its participle then took on the prefix be- also seen in "bedecked". Whether it's actually new or not, I like it. SignatureMark Brader | "But how do you figure out whether the programmer Toronto | knew what he was doing when you find his code msb@vex.net | after he's gone?" -- Roger Critchlow My text in this article is in the public domain. >What's going on here?: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/03/2559517.htm Maybe he thought it was the Lurgie Awards. SignatureRichard Bollard Canberra Australia To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT. >>What's going on here?: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Maybe he thought it was the Lurgie Awards. On the same topic, today I just saw the following observation in another group: When George Wallace was asked when the U.S. would elect a black president, he purportedly said "When pigs fly". Now we have elected Barack Obama - and guess what... Swine flew. SignatureJames |
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