Austintatious (Austin-tatious) (1970s?)

Thu Feb 8 13:46:54 UTC 2007

Oh!  Austin, Texas, eh?  And I thought these were all joking pragmatics
scholars, showing off their knowledge of how to do things with words!

Susan

On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> Austintatious--23,400 Google hits
> Austen-tatious--13,000 Google hits
> Austentatious--10,200 Google hits
> Austintacious--5,180 Google hits
> Austin-tatious--3,530 Google hits
> Austentacious--1,430 Google hits
> ...
> Maybe someone has an "Austintatious" hit on FACTIVA or another
> database? It=20=
> =20
> means a pretentious display of the city of Austin (or of Jane Austen).
> The =20
> term is used a lot in these parts (Austin, Texas), but is not recorded
> in th=
> e =20
> HDAS.
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> _http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/
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> Entry from February 08, 2007=20
> Austintatious (Austin-tatious)
> =20
> Austin is the capital of Texas; perhaps some people feel that
> it=E2=80=99s =20=
> =E2=80=9C
> ostentatious.=E2=80=9D The term =E2=80=9CAustintatious=E2=80=9D (or
> =E2=80=
> =9CAustin-tatious=E2=80=9D or sometimes  spelled =E2=80=9C
> Austintacious") has been used as an adjective and as a business name.
> The=20
> term dates from at least the mid-1970s.=20
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> _Merriam-Webster_ (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ostentatious) =20
> Main  Entry: os=C2=B7ten=C2=B7ta=C2=B7tious=20
> Pronunciation: -sh&s=20
> Function:  adjective=20
> : marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes
> pretentiou=
> s=20
> display=20
>
> _Google  Books_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?
> vid=3DISBN0670122637&id=3DMwseAAAAMAAJ&q=3Dau=
> stintatious&dq=3Daustintatious&ie=3DISO-8859-1&pgis=3D1) =20
> Ancient Lights=20
> by Davis Grubb=20
> New York: Viking  Press=20
> 1982=20
> Pg. 246:=20
> I do find Texans so=E2=80=94so Austintatious.=20
>
> _Google  Books_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?
> vid=3DISBN0807849200&id=3DR6KBKY7stGwC&pg=3DR=
> A2-PA97&lpg=3DRA2-PA97&ots=3DY3Yd_vhSa-&dq=3Daustintatious&ie=3DISO
> -8859-1&s=
> ig
> =3DliMDNaxY0dtb7_953M5RC2NzAzY) =20
> Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular  Culture=20
> by Archie Green=20
> Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North  Carolina Press=20
> 2001=20
> Pg. 97:=20
> Jack Jaxon offers the last picture of  the =E2=80=9CCozmic
> Cowboy=E2=80=9D=
> =E2=80=94a cartoon with=20
> running text published in the Austin  Sun (March 11, 1976) as a
> =E2=80=9Chan=
> dy guide for=20
> out-of-staters=E2=80=9D (fig. 10). A  =E2=80=9Cgenuine bad-ass redneck
> Texas=
>  cowpoke=E2=80=9D stares=20
> down a hairy, =E2=80=9Caustintatious,=E2=80=9D  jewelry-bedecked dude,
> while=
>  the artist=20
> explains their sartorial contrast.  =20
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> e6690403/7199be8bd9071752?lnk=3Dst&q=3Daustintatiou
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> From: _fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU_
> (mailto:fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU)  =20
> (Francis Muir)=20
> Date: 1996/02/25=20
> Subject: Re: Ted Samsel - Illuminati? =20
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> Joann Zimmerman writes:=20
>
> ... Paul, you=E2=80=99re way too damn late.
> =E2=80=9CAustintatious,=E2=80=
> =9D or as my former=20
> non-compadre Samsel spells it, =E2=80=9CAustintacious,=E2=80=9D  has
> been in=
>  use for at least=20
> twenty years to describe the state of exemplifying =20
> that which is (or used to be, by now, nostalgia not being what it used
> to =20
> be, either, damn it) Austin, Texas. I could cite all sorts of very
> back issu=
> es =20
> indeed of the previously-mentioned, but alas,=20
> all-too-defunct weekly _Austin  Sun_, circa 1976. =20
> You may continue to use the word =E2=80=9CAustEntation=E2=80=9D as a
> synonym=
>  for Janeism, as=20
>  I am quite sure that we are all sufficiently Close Readers to tell
> the =20
> difference. (Vive la!)=20
>
> I remind the rabid that I coined the word  Austenitic precisely -
> well,=20
> partly - to distinguish things Janeian from capital  Texan notions.
> It is a=
> lso=20
> true that in another world that Austenitic  steels - steels containing
> the=20
> crystaline form Austenite - are hard enough under  the somewhat
> adverse cond=
> itions=20
> met in the combustion chambers of internal  combustion engines that
> they are=
> =20
> used to make those valves of whose multiplicity  of number the
> manufacturers=
>  of=20
> automobiles have now become so inordinately  proud. It was, in fact,
> a=20
> Victorian Austen after whom Austenite is named, and I  dare say he=20
> was related to Our Jane, Paul always excepted. =20
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> From: JD Cooper=20
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:34:58  -0500=20
> Subject: Re: Who=E2=80=99s from Austin? AUSTIN-TATIOUS! =20
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> =E2=80=9Caustintatious=E2=80=9D is a common word used among the
> natives in A=
> ustin. I  have=20
> always thought it was a funny =E2=80=98lil colloquialism. Mostly it
> refers t=
> o the =20
> high-brow lifestyles of the rich and famous thereabouts.=20
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> (Trademark) =20
> Word Mark AUSTINTATIOUS=20
> Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 042. G &  S: NO GOODS/SERVICES
> STATEMENT O=
> N=20
> TRAM=20
> Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING =20
> Design Search Code=20
> Serial Number 81028958=20
> Filing Date 0000 =20
> Current Filing Basis UNKNOWN=20
> Original Filing Basis UNKNOWN =20
> Registration Number 1028958=20
> Registration Date December 30, 1975 =20
> Owner (REGISTRANT) Austintatious Artists UNKNOWN Austin TEXAS=20
> Register  PRINCIPAL=20
> Live/Dead Indicator DEAD=20
> Cancellation Date May 25, 1982 =20
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