On 14-08-2021 07:37, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-08-13 5:31 p.m., Weaver wrote: >> On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote: >>>> Stefan writes: >>>>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style >>>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly. >>>> >>>> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the >>>> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the >>>> bottom. A septic tank, for example. It was common to respond to a >>>> particularly asinine article with the one-word followup "plonk". >>>> >>>> I've never seen any point in telling the world (or the plonked >>>> individual) about the action, though. >>>> >>> I have serious doubt against the "plonked" being able to appreciate what >>> is happening to him. Most of the time, they won't stop and will just >>> continue to argue against themselves. Something trying to use words from >>> language they don't even master while trying to do so. >> >> This would be typical: waxing wisely on a term they were obviously not >> familiar with, five minutes ago, when they enquired after it. >> Cheers! >> > This would be typical of not understand some simple second degree use of > words. Could it be possible that I have another word that I use for > "plonk" ? A word that can be substituted for ? Pretty much... I call > this being "punked", maybe it's more used orally in Ontario and Eastern > Canada than in writing. > > I don't know what you are trying to prove here, except maybe that you > are worth being associated with the word stated earlier ?
I think you'll find mailing lists are international in nature. Cheers! Harry. -- `Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth'. -- Albert Einstein
