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[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 20:31

Number 5? we are working on it number 6 soon

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 20:26

tsk1 10 Jul'13 - 19:16 - 4169 of 4179 0 0

Times104 -

I never made a statement in which I said I was weird, therefore you cannot agree with it. If 2J says I am weird, then you can agree with him.


In that CAse sister, I agree!!

Never new you were giving orders what rank are thee TSK1 not a junior seaman deckhand by any channce??I think Captains table is required here, perhaps some number nines, comes to mind.

[tsk 1] 10/7/2013 20:24

Then try a PIM plank (if you can find one).

PS. All done.

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 20:14

TSK1

Who TF is "daid the clown"?

yOU WILL FIND OUT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER! Me hopes!!

He is a distant Cousin of mine

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 20:08

I think 2J needs another whack with a plank. WTF is a sive?

I think TSK1 has been drinking Orange juice, again, TUT TUT, try putting some Vodka with it, it may help Auld boy!! LOL

now how many posts arw you going to alter tonight ????

[tsk 1] 10/7/2013 20:01

2J -

Tell me who made your soup.

PS. Who TF is "daid the clown"?

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 19:55

as one anonymous thinker once valiantly put it, "life isn't weird: it's just the people in it." Don't go having nightmares TSK1

Knight knight daid the clown

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 19:50

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Weird
This article is weird, but in a weird way. It was fated to happen, and "boom" here it is. But it's not weird in the common weird way that many may perceive. If, for example, a death were described as weird, one would imagine that the death was abnormal, uncanny, or downright strange, yet this was not always true. The meaning of the word "weird" has changed with the centuries. The original meaning of the word "weird" meant to be fated or destined. It was not until the Shakespeare's Macbeth that "weird" took on its modern definition of oddity. So, when I describe this paper as weird, I am saying that it is odd, abnormal, and a disgrace to the human race, yet 400 years ago, I would be saying that this paper is fated, part of destiny, something that was meant to happen in this lifetime.
History
It may seem odd to think that the word "weird" really meant fated or destined only 400 years ago.The initial meaning of the word "weird" has its roots from an Indo-European word wert meaning "to turn," which evolved into a sense of how something will turn out. The word weird has had different definitions throughout history. The word weird was used as a verb by the Scots in the 14th century. The Scots perceived the word "weird" in a sense of "to preordain be degree of fate." Its use as an adjective developed in the 15th century, in the sense of "having the power to control fate," originally in the name of the Weird Sisters, mythological witches who could tell the future. If, in 1735, I were to refer to "that weird phenomenon," I would, in a sense, be referring to a destined event that took place. The word weird was not viewed as something freakish, nor was the word abnormal. "Weird" almost seemed to have a religious connotation, for if something is fated, it's meant to be, and someone meant it to be that way.

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Source: Bumped His HeadShakespeare's Influence
Over the course of history the original meaning of the word "weird" has morphed into something vastly different. The word weird has been transformed from its meaning of destiny, to a new description, for weird is now used to describe everything that is odd, unusual, or supernatural. The metamorphosis of this word can be accredited, or blamed, on Shakespeare. Around 1607, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, and it was in this play that Shakespeare referred to the "Weird Sisters". Shakespeare's depicted "the weird sisters, hand in hand, posters of the sea and land," and described them as "so wither'd and so wild in their attire, that [they] look not like the inhabitants o' the earth."Shakespeare's depiction of the "Weird Sisters" included an unusual word choice, a strong sense of the supernatural, and an ability to see someone's destiny, which led to an association with the word "weird." Weird described the fate or destiny that was perceived in the past, yet, as with most things, it was "distorted by time, robbed of truth by cynicism, yet gifted with splendor by imagination" (Coulter).

Modern Day
Now, in our modern day society, weird has taken a new, slang, meaning. When I refer to something as being weird, I mean that it is odd, unusual, creepy, or supernatural. I think my brother is weird (there is nothing destined about him), and many would agree. This paper is weird in the weird way that I am describing its weirdness. Weird is a popular word among teens these days. It would be a weird day indeed if I went a whole day at school without hearing the word weird to describe the weirdness of an event, person, or assignment. Even today the word seems to be changing. When I use the word weird, it is often to describe something odd or someone who is being unusually hyper or funny, or as one anonymous thinker once valiantly put it, "life isn't weird: it's just the people in it." Meanings are always changing. While I gaze at the second hand ticking away, the root meaning of my entire language is slipping from my grasp.

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Source: About.comEtymology
Over time, things, ideas, and words will change. The path that they will travel in the future is unknown. To predict what a word will mean in twenty years, is like trying to predict history. We can only go back in time through text to view what words meant in the past. We can trace words through their history, to what they have become today. "Weird" meant fated or destined in the past, then it went through a metamorphosis due to Shakespeare's Macbeth. Now, in present day, to be weird is to be something abnormal or odd, and in the next 100 years it may change into something else, only time will tell.

Works
Coulter, Catherine. Night Storm. New York: Avon Books, 1990. Print.

Harper, Douglas. "Weird." Online Entomology Dictionary. 2001-2010. Web. 23 Oct. 2010.
Hodgson, Charles. "Weird." Prodictionary. 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. 1607. The Literature Network. Jalic Inc. 2010.Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

"Weird." Word-Origins. WebFinancer Inc. 2010. Web. 28, Oct, 2010.



TSK1 realy!!

[tsk 1] 10/7/2013 19:41

Thanks dAMIEN, but I know what a sieve is. Now ask your dad what a sive is - preferably after he stops eating your alphabet soup.

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 19:34

Times104 -

I never made a statement in which I said I was weird, therefore you cannot agree with it.

COME ON tsk1 IT IS A democratic SOCIETY, AND BESIDES YOU APPEAR TO HAVE YOUR OPINIONS!! No I agree you are A we bit off color. Never mind we can't all be perfect, as always 2 J


YES WOODWORM terrible thing

[tsk 1] 10/7/2013 19:19

I think 2J needs another whack with a plank. WTF is a sive?

[tsk 1] 10/7/2013 19:16

Times104 -

I never made a statement in which I said I was weird, therefore you cannot agree with it. If 2J says I am weird, then you can agree with him.

[2jinxed] 10/7/2013 19:10

It's amazing that when A bear goes to Aintree 3 horses die!!

I think TSK1 has woodworm on the brain, he's leaking like a sieve.

[cockneyrebel] 10/7/2013 13:44

If this was a horse at Aintree the screen would be around it and the vet would have his gun in hand imo.

CR

[times104] 10/7/2013 13:23

I thought a cheap chiseller like you would have plenty of wood, especially between the ears.
However I do agree... that you are weird.

[tsk 1] 09/7/2013 21:40

This place is weird.

[tsk 1] 09/7/2013 21:11

'Evening 2J

I'm fine thanks. Sorry about whacking you with the plank. I was going to turn it around and put the end at the beginning but decided that would be taking things too far, and I didn't have enough wood.

[teh hampster] 09/7/2013 19:20

That's all well and good, but more importantly, have you any idea who this CR chap is?

[cockneyrebel] 09/7/2013 19:15

Listen......listen very carefully....ssshhhh....quiet....listen.

That's death watch beetle I can hear.

How is the mkt cap nearly £7m lolol! Sales of £40k lol. A valuation of 10 times revenue would be generous.

Even at this price imagine how many shares they'll need to issue for the next placing!

Only a matter of time till these throw in the towel and go belly up imo.

CR

[2jinxed] 09/7/2013 19:06

Evening jOHN HOW are you today??

[2jinxed] 09/7/2013 19:05

I never walk of the end of it only the begining>,.