Seventeenth Floor: Camp Nice at Hidey Lake
POSTED BY: LightMeDark
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 20:51
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Funny this should come up. A few days ago I was surfing through Whedonesque and noticed their cunningly hidden and cryptcally named link, "Tag: joss+post" which leads to a list of all threads in which our master has posted to. In this thread http://whedonesque.com/comments/9718 he touches on the subject in question.
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The people who create a word have no more control over it than the people who created the constitution have control over how it's used today. Language is liquid. 'Doubt' used to mean 'believe'. "The Great and Terrible Oz" is a phrase that would seem contradictory today. Oh, and 'nubile' is defined around 1900 as 'of marriagable age'. Even if you create a word, you cannot control how its meaning will bend -- often to its very opposite. That's part of the fun. Brigadoon: In Gay Technicolor!
In short the dictionary definition of nubile hasn't caught up with how the word is used in modern language. The fact that the modern usage descends from a definition that didn't make the dictionary (it's more or less the victorian era equivalent of "barely legal" and didn't make the dictionaries of the time since victorian era lexicographers were even more repressed than the average victorian era peeps) just muddies up the water a bit.
David
"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon
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DaveShanyne,
Thank you for that enlightenment (I am not being sarcastic). I had always been under the impression that the modern definition of "nubile" meant young (yet sexually mature),attractive, and well-formed. Unfortunately, the modern definition of "attractive" seems to be stick-figure females (according to the runway models); but it seems to be getting better. I am of the theory that a person is beautiful if they feel comfortable in their own skins. So, my definition of nubile may be different than others.
Holding until you get back , Captain.
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Let us all define nubile in our own way! Ain't democracy great!
I like my skin. It holds me insides in.
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
President of the Juggled Gosling Chatroom
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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Let us all define nubile in our own way!
Fair dinkum.
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Ain't democracy great!
***Warning : Civilization 2 joke follows***
If your going for a spaceship victory yes but if you want to conquer the world you can't beat communism.
David
"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon
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Alright, if there are not to be any nubiles...
*gets out of his comfy chair and begins cobbling together an automatic grape-leaf fanning system consisting of old bicycle gears, long poles with grape leaves lashed to them, and a small motor powered by a portable generator*
That ought to do it!
That way, the nubiles can join us in comfort!
Holding until you get back , Captain.
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I guess, if I must, since no one else will volunteer, be a nubile. I do certainly fit the profile. 
For a little while only, and then someone else has to take a turn.
*dons the NTB and a sarong. Grabs palm fronds.*
Besides, the fan waving will be a good upper body workout.
******
No touching!
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*glancing from his grape-leaf fanning contraption to Serenity and back*
Sarong good!
*shaking head vigorously*
Serenity, this fanning thing should work...that way you can enjoy the goodies. Please, sit, relax, enjoy yourself...but thank you for the sarong!
Holding until you get back , Captain.
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No, no, I don't want to be fanned by a machine. I detest fans in general. I'd rather be fanned by a person, so I figure if I start the fanning than, I can eventually get someone else to fan me! It's a (hopefully) brilliant plan.
Though your contraption is quite ingenious, really. I'm just partial to palm fronds and grape leaves is all.
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Well...there are grape leaves attached to long sticks being waved about...and it should hold together...
Holding until you get back , Captain.
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I'm partial to palm fronds and grape leaves being fanned by actual peoples.
I thought it was the nubileness of the fanners that was the appeal to begin with?
Isn't that how this all started?
Where's TWG when she's needed?
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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