Joyance is such a beautiful word, but clodpoll has made my day :) And I always love to see a reference of my long lost (very) distant cousin Sir Walter. Thank you!
I want to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction to someone being called a clodpoll! And Sir Walter? Wow! I wonder which clodpoll rellie subsequently got Transportation? 😻
Haha, yes, there certainly must have been some fall from grace 😂 I haven't actually been able to trace convict ancestry on my side (I keep hoping to find one) but there are some interesting stories.
Oh I can imagine there must be great stories! From what I've read of the "crimes" that translated to the sentence of transportation, like poverty, or being female and speaking out of turn, I'd be proud of such ancestors having survived the journey and making a new life. I have to say that everyone I've met from Oz (and even a few Kiwis, shhhh) have been first rate! Of course, this coming from a mutt's mix descendant of northern European immigrants after the rowdy American colonists won their right to oppress people on their own terms. 😆
Love this! I actually first came across deodand in the last year by way of a science fiction (solarpunk, maybe, if you're into subcategories) novel by Karl Schroeder, Stealing Worlds, where he repurposes it to describe an AI tasked with representing or speaking for a specific natural resource like a lake or something. I thought it was so nifty after looking it up and was just incredibly stoked he didn't use a neologism instead. On an unrelated note, I'm always mildly disappointed it's pronounced be-draggled instead of bed-raggled.
That's so interesting that deodand showed up in Cli Fi! I'll look up Solarpunk. I hope Lake gets justice, wow! And I agree with bed-raggled—I think we should just start pronouncing it that way and let people wonder. Better yet, it needs an entry in the Urban Dictionary.😎
Hmmm. I vote for 'makebate'. Has a good earthy sounds to it.
With so many of them mouthing off, I agree!
Joyance definitely should be brought back into common use!
Agreed!
Joyance is such a beautiful word, but clodpoll has made my day :) And I always love to see a reference of my long lost (very) distant cousin Sir Walter. Thank you!
I want to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction to someone being called a clodpoll! And Sir Walter? Wow! I wonder which clodpoll rellie subsequently got Transportation? 😻
Haha, yes, there certainly must have been some fall from grace 😂 I haven't actually been able to trace convict ancestry on my side (I keep hoping to find one) but there are some interesting stories.
Oh I can imagine there must be great stories! From what I've read of the "crimes" that translated to the sentence of transportation, like poverty, or being female and speaking out of turn, I'd be proud of such ancestors having survived the journey and making a new life. I have to say that everyone I've met from Oz (and even a few Kiwis, shhhh) have been first rate! Of course, this coming from a mutt's mix descendant of northern European immigrants after the rowdy American colonists won their right to oppress people on their own terms. 😆
Love this! I actually first came across deodand in the last year by way of a science fiction (solarpunk, maybe, if you're into subcategories) novel by Karl Schroeder, Stealing Worlds, where he repurposes it to describe an AI tasked with representing or speaking for a specific natural resource like a lake or something. I thought it was so nifty after looking it up and was just incredibly stoked he didn't use a neologism instead. On an unrelated note, I'm always mildly disappointed it's pronounced be-draggled instead of bed-raggled.
That's so interesting that deodand showed up in Cli Fi! I'll look up Solarpunk. I hope Lake gets justice, wow! And I agree with bed-raggled—I think we should just start pronouncing it that way and let people wonder. Better yet, it needs an entry in the Urban Dictionary.😎