ilxor vocabulary: 'grate'

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when i read it i can't drop that second meaning, ie. bad (it's (grate)great = it grates.)

does everyone else put that out of their heads or does use of 'grate' in place of 'great' have a negative edge?

― minna (minna), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

it has a little bit of that negative meaning left when i read it, but i've gotten used to using it in a good sense so that all that's left is a little edge that gets my attention when i'd just read over "great" without noticing.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i hadn't considered it before. what about the use of grebt

― ron (ron), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

does it have any of the self protection factor, like writing 'luv' instead of love? (you've got to hide yr luv away)

― minna (minna), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

grebt = luv, grate = um... loave?

― minna (minna), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i would agree with that. being cutesy to distract from yr feeling. not always, people probably just find it amusing

or lurve?

― ron (ron), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"when i say i'm in love you best believe I'm in LUV, l-u-v!"

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

They both seem a bit contrived to me. But they make me feel part of a gang. A grebt gang!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 18 November 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

DV to thread!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 18 November 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

'grate' for me is the small plasticky cartoonish version of the rather indimidatingly big 'great'. I wouldn't say 'my grate grandfather visited the post office this fine morning' but I might say 'my new Polyphonic Spree remix tape is grate!'. I don't think I'd have a problem with 'cheesegraters are grate' either, such is the secure compartmentalisation of imagery currently set up in my brain.

― Gordon (Gordon), Monday, 18 November 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Clipse are GRATE because I once described "Grindin" as a cheese grater dancing too close w/ a tin man and it just stuck.

Grebt makes me think of grapes for some reason.

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 18 November 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

and Grebt sounds German

― Gordon (Gordon), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

'grate' is a quote from Molesworth (1950s very funny books about boy at minor English public school) - 'how to be topp', 'down with skook', 'back in the jug agane' - great literature!

other Molesworthisms crop up on ILX from time to time - 'chiz' - for example - and many British men of a certain age - whatever kind of school they went to - recognise them.

― jon (jon), Monday, 18 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

some british girls also, presumably. starry REPREZENT

― ron (ron), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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