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05-02-2003 01:39 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 05-02-2003 01:43 AM
Anyone know the etymology of 'bling bling'? (that is, where did BG get it) A quick web search doesn't pull up anything very useful. I like the apocryphal tale that it came from the sound Mario makes when he gets the gold coins.
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| jose!
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05-02-2003 02:39 AM ET (US)
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Bling bling was prison slang, a warning to fellow inmates that authorities were approaching, and to hide any contraband. In essence, a "head's up." I don't know if that has any relation to the now-mainstream meaning.
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| aha
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05-02-2003 03:08 AM ET (US)
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Can BoingBoing be far behind?
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| Chris Gregory
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05-02-2003 04:47 AM ET (US)
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I think I coined 'mouse jockey'. As in someone who spends their days riding a mouse around a field of mouse pad-sized real estate...
I have an October 1998 publication date, with Penguin Books in Australia. I just need more people to start using the term...
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05-02-2003 05:31 AM ET (US)
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the rapper wished he copyrighted the term, this made me wonder why the phrase he "invented" and published in his heavily legally protected lyrics was not "his" and every one else has since been reproducing it.
I realise this is a dumb question which no doubt has an extremely simple answer, but i'd just like to understand, can anyone explain....?
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| LoveGravy
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05-02-2003 09:05 AM ET (US)
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And in other news, the moon has turned blood red, death is raining from the sky, and the last martyr has died...
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05-02-2003 09:47 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 05-02-2003 09:51 AM
Sure, but "Bling bling will never be forgotten." Let's take our victories where we can.
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05-02-2003 09:49 AM ET (US)
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too bad it's not true. "Bling-bling" is not going into the OED.
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| el wombato
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05-02-2003 10:57 AM ET (US)
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The headline has it wrong, but the article has it right - they're drafting an entry for it, nothing more.
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05-02-2003 11:17 AM ET (US)
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So what's the status of "shizzle" ?
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05-02-2003 11:48 AM ET (US)
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In private correspondance, a high-ranking editor for the OED told me that they haven't drafted an entry for "bling-bling." They haven't posted it online. They entry, he says, "isn't there." They are looking at "bling bling" like they look at all words: too see if it's acceptable. They receive citation slips (well, the modern version) for any word, and then what makes the cut is decided later. Big yawner non-story.
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05-02-2003 12:44 PM ET (US)
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I had assumed "bling bling" was simply the sound diamonds make when they sparkle.
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05-02-2003 01:19 PM ET (US)
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I heard that 'blog' was being considered for inclusion in the OED. Can anyone comment on the veracity of this? Growing up, I always viewed the OED as a stodgy old dictionary that was rather resistant to change. It's amusing to see them on the vocabularic front lines of the language. The OED periodically publishes a list of 'Appeals', asking readers to antedate or postdate words beyond a certain date. The content of most recent Appeal is available at http://www.oed.com/public/readers/appeal.htm . Interestingly, the OED seems to be using Google News to date words now, e.g.
moon-box (theatre - device to produce representation of the moon):
any evidence
(now postdated to 1928 (and 1997 on Google Usenet archive only)
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