On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:48 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 06/20/2011 06:35 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year > >> olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, > > >> English is not my native language :) > >> > >> In a local restaurant, there is an old advertisement poster for men's > >> boxer shorts, and in quotes the word 'coolness.' My oldest teenage > >> daughter saw that and wondered about the 'modern' advertisement. > >> Fortunately, there was a copyright date on the poster. The date? > >> > >> 1915. > >> > >> What's old is new again. > >> > >> It's quite possible that a little over twenty years after that ad was > >> published the shorter 'cool' was still in use, around the time a 73 > >> year-old would have been born. > > > > It's also possible that the advertisement literally meant "keeps your > > genitals cool in the summer". It's hard to know what a hundred-year-old > > advertisement might really have meant :) > > Perhaps. At times like this I look to the OED, and its first citation > is from the New Yorker in 1948: "The bebop people have a language of > their own. Their expressions of approval include 'cool'!" > > Andrew. See also World Wide Words: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coo1.htm for a more extensive article on various meanings of 'cool'. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
