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<<Words were tools.>>
The more I ponder that one, the more obscure its meaning. Although there is, I believe, a utilitarian view, which holds that language has meaning insofar as it is understood, i.e, is useful. Anyway, if, as it seems, no one actually uses his thesaurus, except to sell or poke fun at, there is something Keatonesque in the practical doctor's gathering tools to render them useless.
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no one actually uses his thesaurus, except to sell or poke fun at
I will use a thesaurus if the word that comes to mind is not quite the right one but the right one doesn't come tripping off my tongue. I'll know it when I see it.
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I'll know it when I see it.
Yes, I use my thesaurus the same way. I wouldn't pluck an unknown word out of it and plop it into a sentence, but sometimes the creative fires can be stoked by checking out a list of similar words with different shades of meaning. I especially like the one built into M$ Word for this, actually -- you can search through it in tree-fashion (i.e. clicking on one of the words in the list brings up the list for that word, which may be slightly different from the last list you were looking at).
Jackie -- No doubt the only time I've ever won any bling-related competition. Sadly, my connection to bleeding-edge urban slang (my brother) is now a landlord in the 'burbs, and engaged to be married, so I'm not nearly as up-to-date as I used to be. Now that people like me (and my formerly hip brother) are casually tossing words like "bling" and "crunk" around, I'm sure there are new words that have replaced them in the urban lingo; as it was, as it is, as it always will be.
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Toss it my way, Flat my homie, I'm still in the dark.
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There's some dispute over the meaning of "crunk". Some suggest it simply means "very intoxicated" (an intensified form of "drunk"), I prefer the more general, positive definition that is trickier to define.
Essentially, like the cool-groovy-bad-dope-phat continuum, it means "really good", but it has a more specialized usage. An analogy might be that to say a club/bar/party is "getting crunk" means that the "joint is jumping" in an earlier parlance. It means that that intangible matrix of people/music/libation has reached its peak and everyone can really start to enjoy themselves. I'm familiar with the term mostly through hip-hop and rap music, as the establishments I find myself in these days tend to be not so much "crunk" as "toddler-friendly".
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Cranking up the music - Crunk up the party! Ablaut in the making, what!?
Nice one F; I too hadn't heard this before.
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>>>as the establishments I find myself in these days tend to be not so much "crunk" as "toddler-friendly".
Aye, it happens to the best of us F. But (sounding like an old biddy here) take advantage of those days, cause soon-enough, toddlers turn into teens and they have absolutely no wish to go anywhere with Mom&Dad - who have magically become boring, by the way.
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Kinda like saying the craic is good, sounds to me... 
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take the time to croodle with your kids, Flats... 
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