When did "boat-load" and "buck-naked" become "butt-load" and "butt-naked?"
Could they become "booty-load" and "booty-naked?"
(Cross-posted at Dispatches from Outland.)
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The change came when the Baby Boomers reached cultural hegemony. They had already decided that no metaphor not containing obscenity supplied sufficient emphasis.
This is the crowning achievement of a determined effort to homogenize, well, everything.The advent of non-print information sources other than spoken word has brought about a massive blending, even a thinning, of all communication. This has been going on since the late 1800s.Or, it could just be the insidious influence of rednecks. We do, in point of fact, make up a large chunk-O-society, and whatnot.Like your blog, nice concept. Being, on occasion , among the communicationally challenged, I am glad someone is out here addressing this issue.
There was a blog dedicated to these types of shifts, sadly I can’t remember what it was called. This didn’t start in the 1800s though, there’s always been a tendency to "regularize" and misunderstandings abound.I did find this list of similar mistakes: http://www.wmjasco.com/89-9category.pdf
What’s next will bedawg-load and dawg-neked (These are decidedly not redneck variations developing in the vernacular of the urban youth)At least thats what you can hear on the streets above 110th…Dougwww.dougist.com