Fun with Etymology

[jackofallgeeks]

GENE: You know, I just realized that Steampunk is just an extention of what Jules Verne started.
JOSH: And Jules Verne is an extention of Da Vinci.
ANDREW: Da Vinci is the original Steampunk!
GENE: Back before they used steam.
JOSH: And a punk was a lady who wore pants.
ANDREW: Actually, wouldn't a lady, by definition, not wear pants?
JOSH: Huh?
ANDREW: If she's wearing pants, she's not a lady.
JOSH: Bah, you and your semantics!
GENE: Actually, it's not just semantics. Lady is the feminine of lord. That's been forgotten these days.
JOSH: Mistress is the feminine of master. And dominatrix is the feminine of dominus.
GENE: No, it's the feminine of dominator; one who dominates.
ANDREW: Is that french?
GENE: No, it's latin. Dominatrix, dominator, domination...
ANDREW: ...And that's, what, a whole country who..?
GENE: No. That's the gerund.

Comments

[polydad.livejournal.com]

I do not appreciate crude humor, nor do I generally find vulgarity to be clever or amusing. It is not wanted here, and I would appreciate if it were left off.

Okay. Noted and accepted. Apologies.

best,

Joel. Who seems to be unable to respond to your note directly, and is thus posting it here.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Quite alright; first offender and all that.

[polydad.livejournal.com]

My intent was to extend the existing humor, and apparently I lacked the background to do so. Could you fill me in on the background, please?

best,

Joel

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, no real background; just me and my brothers being a little ridiculous. We have random conversations like this now and again, a little bit intelligent, a little bit just plain silly. I've been away at college for the last few years, and so when I got back here and started these moments up again, I thought I'd share them with my Journal, which had grown in the meantime.

[polydad.livejournal.com]

Ah. *Brothers*. Real people, in other words, not fictional fill-ins. I understand a bit better now, thank you.

best,

Joel