[Ads-l] Ooops (Re: "joyride")
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Oct 31 23:40:37 UTC 2015
> On Oct 31, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> My impression from reading countless words of pop cultural period trash is
> that in early days an automobile "joyride" could be rather more innocent
> than today: just a motor trip for fun, though possibly at breakneck, 35mph
> speeds.
>
> You could take a joyride - or take somebody else for one - in your own car,
> and you wouldn't be likely to abandon it.
>
> A further motivation was to make time with a passenger of the opposite sex.
>
> JL
And to do so even without a car, if I remember the proclivities of "Frank Harris" correctly:
OED, s.v. "joy-ride"
1922 F. Harris My Life & Loves I. ix. 187 ‘Aren't you tired?’..‘No,’ I replied, ‘I feel no fatigue, indeed, I feel the better for our joy ride!’
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>> -----------------------
>> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject: Ooops (Re: "joyride")
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> =
>> wrote:
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 4:23 PM, George Thompson =
>> <george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
>>>> =20
>>>> I'm thinking that a joy ride or jazz ride ends on the same airfield =
>> it left
>>>> from, as opposed to providing transportation to a destination.
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>> Are those two possibilities exclusive?
>>
>> I meant to wonder, of course, whether those two possibilities are =
>> exhaustive, not whether they are exclusive.
>>
>> LH
>>
>>> I've always thought that at least on the ground joyrides allow for =
>> the possibility of abandoning the vehicle in some field or whatever--the =
>> key is that it's distinguished from car theft by virtue of the intent =
>> and the final result--the "borrowers" neither plan on keeping the car =
>> nor do so, but they don't need to return it to its starting point. =
>> Maybe it's different for planes. =20
>>> =20
>>> Here's the OED's gloss; no mention of landing site in either case:
>>> 'A pleasure trip in a motor car, aeroplane, etc., often without the =
>> permission of the owner of the vehicle.'
>>> =20
>>> LH
>>> =20
>>>> Therefore
>>>> it is foolishness; but I'll accept foolish and exciting.
>>>> =20
>>>> GAT
>>>> =20
>>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Jonathan Lighter =
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> =20
>>>>> Maybe not "nonsensical" but "exciting."
>>>>> =20
>>>>> Cf. "joyride" itself.
>>>>> =20
>>>>> JL
>>>>> =20
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Mail Delivery Subsystem <
>>>>> mailer-daemon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> =20
>>>>>> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> ads-l at listservmuga.edu
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> Technical details of permanent failure:
>>>>>> DNS Error: Address resolution of listservmuga.edu. failed: Domain =
>> name
>>>>>> not found
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> ----- Original message -----
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> DKIM-Signature: v=3D1; a=3Drsa-sha256; c=3Drelaxed/relaxed;
>>>>>> d=3Dgmail.com; s=3D20120113;
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> h=3Dmime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to
>>>>>> :content-type;
>>>>>> bh=3DzvDhQ3HRmGOK6JuvNgm5rQKeYJPqx1lUJsZt09snQWo=3D;
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> b=3DsRB+P4qT/y9cBQr0Ven3rB5izVr1L/fPxvLRku3YIO6VuNYW8OOLjz2O3hP7dwz+kV
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> JrEL5V87au8kEisAA+Px9IpLkgRwlnvG0OHONE/q3IDlfxMQWDOHJDGQATS8oCk3AP3u
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> q2NUuAYUXzHMX9Ll6MxdsBJu/NdsTW3CgHi/roYPpM6WooX53lMqsyWjEBq5hPKRqwYV
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> 7Lq+0oUvRUJry95ksJA4ISWF7ITRJpuSGHwXankOKnGI4tpuDipd9qP5TO/f06bZQvEz
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =
>> TrSOFIetMQfQGJvDz7+diKjxD8XiGOxqOykH8UEwZjow43npl6Rme+dnoK34GBrN1O8X
>>>>>> X9Zg=3D=3D
>>>>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>>>>> X-Received: by 10.140.93.139 with SMTP id
>>>>>> d11mr16776563qge.83.1446291790295;
>>>>>> Sat, 31 Oct 2015 04:43:10 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>>> Received: by 10.55.94.132 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 04:43:10 =
>> -0700
>>>>> (PDT)
>>>>>> In-Reply-To: <201510310143.t9UGs7Gm025863 at waikiki.cc.uga.edu>
>>>>>> References: <
>>>>>> =20
>>>>> =
>> SN2PR11MB0080923C75F62F56E1EADF57B52F0 at SN2PR11MB0080.namprd11.prod.outlook
>> =
>> .com
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> <201510310143.t9UGs7Gm025863 at waikiki.cc.uga.edu>
>>>>>> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 07:43:10 -0400
>>>>>> Message-ID: <CAFANsHiU1hKh8Rm52LFd7y4F=3D
>>>>>> d9+V-4Lh1QptYMof_tK1_se7A at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Interesting early use of 'jazz' far away from music
>>>>>> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> To: ads-l at listservmuga.edu
>>>>>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>>>>> boundary=3D001a113958c866fe860523650cb8
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> Maybe not "nonsensical" but "exciting."
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> Consider "joyride" itself.
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> JL
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:43 PM, George Thompson <
>>>>> george.thompson at nyu.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>>>>>> -----------------------
>>>>>>> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>>>>>> Poster: George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Interesting early use of 'jazz' far away from =
>> music
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =20
>>>>> =
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------=
>> -----
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> This fits with the sense of the first two appearances of "jazz" -- =
>> Ben
>>>>>>> Henderson's "jazz curve" and the statement that the idea that a =
>> young
>>>>>>> ballplayer isn't talented is "all to the jazz" -- the sense of
>>>>> nonsense,
>>>>>>> foolishness, or such. Henderson's jazz curve was ridiculous: it
>>>>> wobbled;
>>>>>>> the misunderestimation of the young player is nonsense; and a jazz =
>> trip
>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> an airplane without purpose or destination is foolish.
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> All but one of the rest of the citations from 1914 (as I recall) =
>> show
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> other sense: energy or enthusiasm; which is the sense that links =
>> to
>>>>>> "jazz"
>>>>>>> in music.
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> GAT
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
>>>>>>> geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> I subscribe to an aviation trade journal (Aviation Week) which is
>>>>>> having
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> feature on 100 years of 'airline technology'. Here's a quote from =
>> an
>>>>>>>> article:
>>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> On a bright New Year's Day morning in 1914, an enthusiastic crowd
>>>>> that
>>>>>>> had
>>>>>>>> gathered at the yacht basin in St. Petersburg, Florida, cheered =
>> with
>>>>>>>> delight as a fragile-looking Benoist XIV floatplane left the =
>> water
>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> pointed its blunt nose in the direction of nearby Tampa. Squeezed
>>>>> into
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> tiny cockpit were pioneer aviator Tony Jannus and Abe Pheil, a =
>> former
>>>>>> St.
>>>>>>>> Petersburg mayor who had bid $400 to become the first fare-paying
>>>>>>> passenger
>>>>>>>> on the world's first scheduled, fixed-wing airline flight. =
>> Percival
>>>>>>>> Fansler, the local businessman behind the St.
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> ----- Message truncated -----
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =20
>>>>> =20
>>>>> =20
>>>>> --
>>>>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the =
>> truth."
>>>>> =20
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> The American Dialect Society - =
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
>> org&d=3DAwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
>> xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DlOMb4r-mZf74EqCo66WP7J3ZGWjVSiMwqUl0PzsdMrE&s=3DSa71aI=
>> q1UrN5v5lGUcqdKaGZJbO8OdXjB8V855PT5zg&e=3D=20
>>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> --=20
>>>> George A. Thompson
>>>> The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
>>>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", =
>> Northwestern
>>>> Univ. Pr., 1998..
>>>> =20
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> The American Dialect Society - =
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
>> org&d=3DAwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
>> xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DlOMb4r-mZf74EqCo66WP7J3ZGWjVSiMwqUl0PzsdMrE&s=3DSa71aI=
>> q1UrN5v5lGUcqdKaGZJbO8OdXjB8V855PT5zg&e=3D=20
>>> =20
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=H-p8M9AG64dAqHXhwvwKU42u0QawXJugXDkYSo1ChKQ&s=tHi5nCLzn9nyYYFaausIoH6tZuAQVzWdxKpPwnIlaQU&e=
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=H-p8M9AG64dAqHXhwvwKU42u0QawXJugXDkYSo1ChKQ&s=tHi5nCLzn9nyYYFaausIoH6tZuAQVzWdxKpPwnIlaQU&e=
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list