Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping"

[Mark West <deepeco@u.washington.edu>]

Billy, I think your hasty stroll through Webster's Ninth was in error.
The word you define -- "pimping" -- is an adjective.  As in, "His swings
of the ax were pimping, insufficient to cut the firewood."

The VERB pimp -- as in "I now will pimp case-side", or "she's pimping our
underview" -- is defined as "to work for a prostitute."

Turn to page 13 (Explanatory Notes) of the text you cite (1985 ed.) in
order to understand the difference between "vi" and "adj". 

As for the PC death march (as I noted in my backchannel), I speak only for
myself, for how I feel when using that word lightly, or hearing it as
such.

Finally, one could argue that regardless of what Webster's technically
says, _"meaning"_ is what we hear/understand; and I think when most
people hear "pimp" they think not of "puny" but of prostitution.

Yours,
Mark

 On Wed,30 Apr 1997 Swm36ut@aol.com wrote:

> Gee, the PC police are everywhere, aren't they?
> 
> The term "pimping," as explained on p.892 of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate
> Dictionary, is an adjective with a distinctly different meaning from the noun
> and verb, "pimp." "Pimping," though it sounds like the prostitution-related
> verb, is actually a sixteenth century adjective meaning petty, insignificant,
> puny or sickly. Really. Look it up. Sure sounds descriptive of a lot of CEDA
> analysis, I've encountered...
> 
> Maybe Mark West could entertain us more with his further exploits toward
> being a living god. Or maybe Gallentine could help him to create a
> non-offensive debate language. Real fair job of docking people points for
> your misinterpretation of English etymology.
> 
> Geez, don't you folks have anything to do with your lives? 
> 
> Lemoine is right, the sheep are thick. The march of pseudo-liberalism is more
> oppressive that the Bataan Death March.
> 
> Billy
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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