091011 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote: >> Peter Ruskin schrieb: >>> I'm 71 ... is that old enough? >> To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. > I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) > is "That's hot". Thus portraying exactly the problem with our language.
The word 'cool' dates from the 1960s -- yes, I'm old enough to remember -- , but since the invention of Global Warming, 'hot' has taken over ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
