Words are Wicked- Episode 2: Double Entendre
Sique checks her emails at work and in receiving the requested correspondence, gives them serious consideration. Satisfied with the words of support, she finishes her work and goes home.
Chores are done, cartoons with the pretty girl are watched and class work is completed. She looks over her day, prides herself in a day well done and looks forward to reading a few pages before she drifts off to sleep…
Curled up in her Hello Kitty pajamas, she starts reading. Then after a few pages, she stops; pondering on a phase, phasing actually, but dismisses it and reads on. Another dozen or so pages later her thoughts settle on the phrasing again and she's compelled to go back and read it over.
Where did she read that before? She shakes it off…she has read and written hundreds of thousands of words in the last few days, phrase recall is nothing new.
But…she getting tired and she needs to clean up her files before dropping off to sleep. She picks up her correspondence, gives it the once over then runs over to her book….
From WLCK in SiqueCountry, this is Words Are Wicked. (theme music plays).
Each time, we have a theme and write a blog about that theme.
This week's theme: Double Entendre.
Stories about how words change meanings from the writer to the written. How climate, context and cathexis can change simple words into weapons of mass confusion.
But before we go any further, let define what we mean by double entendre.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "A double meaning; a word or phrase having a double sense, especially as used to convey an indelicate meaning"
And that's what most people think when they hear that phrase, visions of lurid lines dripping sex and innuendo come to mind.
But oftentimes, it's much more subtle… while it has a double meaning, the meaning that's intended may, and often does, change between the parties involved. The intended meaning is presumed and assumed to be innocent, but context, additional information shared between the parties, may shade, turn or twist the meaning and then, as they say hilarity ensures.
Stay Tuned (fade to break and station identification)
Chores are done, cartoons with the pretty girl are watched and class work is completed. She looks over her day, prides herself in a day well done and looks forward to reading a few pages before she drifts off to sleep…
Curled up in her Hello Kitty pajamas, she starts reading. Then after a few pages, she stops; pondering on a phase, phasing actually, but dismisses it and reads on. Another dozen or so pages later her thoughts settle on the phrasing again and she's compelled to go back and read it over.
Where did she read that before? She shakes it off…she has read and written hundreds of thousands of words in the last few days, phrase recall is nothing new.
But…she getting tired and she needs to clean up her files before dropping off to sleep. She picks up her correspondence, gives it the once over then runs over to her book….
From WLCK in SiqueCountry, this is Words Are Wicked. (theme music plays).
Each time, we have a theme and write a blog about that theme.
This week's theme: Double Entendre.
Stories about how words change meanings from the writer to the written. How climate, context and cathexis can change simple words into weapons of mass confusion.
But before we go any further, let define what we mean by double entendre.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "A double meaning; a word or phrase having a double sense, especially as used to convey an indelicate meaning"
And that's what most people think when they hear that phrase, visions of lurid lines dripping sex and innuendo come to mind.
But oftentimes, it's much more subtle… while it has a double meaning, the meaning that's intended may, and often does, change between the parties involved. The intended meaning is presumed and assumed to be innocent, but context, additional information shared between the parties, may shade, turn or twist the meaning and then, as they say hilarity ensures.
Stay Tuned (fade to break and station identification)
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