as i read Charlotte Brontë's Villette, i came across the term cretin applied to a school girl of limited capacity. my image of the girl was tainted by the derogatory connotation of the term has in this, our generation. in Brontë's generation, "cretin" was a medical term, neutral.
perhaps "society caring, unquestioning, educated," would complete the synapse, for i believe society's education does not extend beyond the first definition of de.fec.tive due to_________(insert reason).
with such etymology as Marlena presents, defective becomes a mark of distinction, one i will proudly wear...forward. for now i shall savor my d e f e c t i v e n e s s secretly.
*Blogger d i s-functionality at the time of posting, caused the original version to disappear into electronic neverland. i present this synapse in edited form.
4 comments:
ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa entonces tu hablas español que rico, que bueno!!!!!!!!!!!!
mi español es na verdad una mierda pero yo compreendo todo.
TODO TODO TODO
pardona-me chica es que creo que estoy un poco hipomaniaca.
de onde es?? o, de onde su familia es?? yo creo que vives en EUA ha muchos años o no terias un ingles so perfecto.
Creo que no lo saibas pero soy brasileña y vivo en Brasil.
Muchos besos latinos y hope you are doing good with the synapses .
te voy a llamar la carioca de ahora en adelante. ya tendremos que hablar mas. tu español, genial. si sabes decir mierda, sabes lo que tienes que saber. mi español, mi inglés: que más da como lo diga. ahora que lo pienso, que más da lo que diga.
~t~
cool. i understand a little spanish but it's too late at night to try to decipher much of that... how is that bronte book? i have not read it. at the moment i'm reading the collected peanuts comics. cretin is a cool word. it sounds like something you'd find in french onion soup. i think it would be fun to do a food recipe book but add things like "two tablespoons of cretins, chopped finely" and "one cup of squints mixed with a hand ful of detractors". maybe i should write one...
¡i savor the idea of the recipe! i would have chopped up the cretins from my supermercado experience. then again, the taste would have been dreadful.
~t~
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