This is a response to Kay’s Junkyard Quote that she got from Castle. Quote: "Boss isn't too keen on mixed laundry." I agree with you that this is a unique spin on saying you don’t like mixed relationships. What I find interesting is that for someone who grew up in the 40’s this wouldn’t be strange lingo at all. The same way that today we use lingo such as “give me sum dap” instead of shake my hand will someday be foreign to those who didn’t grow up in our time. In the 60’s zebras was a way of saying a mixed person, today zebra is the animal that you called a horse until you parents told you better. This quote to me shows the diversity of our language and how the connotations of words are continuously changing.
This is a response to Kay’s Junkyard Quote that she got from Castle.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Boss isn't too keen on mixed laundry."
I agree with you that this is a unique spin on saying you don’t like mixed relationships. What I find interesting is that for someone who grew up in the 40’s this wouldn’t be strange lingo at all. The same way that today we use lingo such as “give me sum dap” instead of shake my hand will someday be foreign to those who didn’t grow up in our time. In the 60’s zebras was a way of saying a mixed person, today zebra is the animal that you called a horse until you parents told you better. This quote to me shows the diversity of our language and how the connotations of words are continuously changing.