Subject: Re: wimmen talking
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 10:11:20 GMT
Scottie B. (quite charmingly) wrote:
>
> (Although I continue to have terrible trouble with
> 'darling' used as a descriptive adjective. My toes
> remain clenched in what feels like irreversible spasm.
> No matter how I try I still can't imagine the word
> ever issuing in that usage from your own Raphaelesque
> lips.)
Er, well, that's because I don't actually use it. I left it in there
because my Aunt Tess, who was approximately that age in 1948, uses the
phrase ALL the time. Everything is "just darling" as far as she is
concerned. It's a generational thing, I think.
A girl of my generation might use "cool" or "better than okay" or "really
cute". Or, in the case of very close friends, a code word or phrase that
means everything to the two of you but nothing to everyone else. Now that I
think about it, the code word is far more likely, as it will call up other
memories as soon as you invoke it. And a conversation like this is for
nothing but calling up memories. If I showed up at my best friend's house
looking perfectly ordinary but announced that "I feel like a sweaty nurse,"
she'd first laugh and then get me a glass of water.
I'm sure men do it too. I don't know if I'd be so brave as to write about
it, though.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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