JohninSC said:
T.L., you just dropped the bomb on everyone in this thread! I love how he keeps hating on me saying that I call other people mean names and am an a-hole.......but he does that by calling me names and being an a-hole himself.
Anyway, back to the thread........pretty much everyone here is saying how they love their tele, but not responding at all to my saying that they are ugly. I was wondering what aesthetically attracts everyone to them, other than the fact that so and so uses them.
John: the Tele, to me, si like an old car - it looks hopelessly out of date, but it still ends up beating the newer models hands down.
I was told early on that my playing style and technique (or lack thereof :sad: ) lent itself to the Teles. Spent years resisting that until I built a Warmoth Esquire and have to admit the darned guitar fits me like an old shoe!
I have to concede that their looks are ones that you have to get used to, not as sexy as a Strat or as elegant as a LP Custom, but they are the sort of guitar you know is not going to let you down.
Re: T.Ls comments about the term 'homophobia' not being in the English language.
Well yes mate, it IS in the
language ( and obviously you concede that fact by being able to debate both it's meaning and usage. Otherwise, you'd be asking what the word meant, period. :doh: ), but the term has not yet made it into the general language English Dictionary. May well be a psychological/ medical term - so a check of that sort of specialised dictionary may be required to check that possibility and I don't have the resources for that.
That is how words like necrophilia and nymphomania made their way into the general language English dictionary - firstly a medical type term for a condition, then everyone found it's application and over time the word has been accepted into the dictionary.
T.L. if you knew anything about the English language you will know that words take a while to gain general acceptance across the majority of the English speaking populace.
Citing inclusion or exclusion in mainstream general language English dictionary is not necessarily a pre requisite for acceptance of the term as part of the English language. For example, up until the late 1960s many words used in slang by many people in the USA was not even known for that use in Australia. Now, of course, with the advent of greater instantaneous communication, word usage and even new terms and words can spread far quicker.
English is a dynamic, evolving language that loses and gains words for it's authoritative dictionaries every year, and sometimes words change their original meaning too. That sort of phenomenon has been plaguing everyone trying to encapsulate the English from Johnson onwards! It is considered very Victorian and conservative to ignore the contemporary usage of words and attempt to uphold dictionary meanings as the one and only authoritative way that the word is used. Law courts all over the world even stray at times in their attempts to reach decisions over disputes of contracts, terms and conditions and definitions.
