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Posted by Bob on 12/23/05 14:13
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:16:44 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
<roylfuchs@ufargingicehole.org> wrote:
>>droll: having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
> OMG, you're right! That is the exact opposite meaning I had given
>it.
> I guess even Fred Flintstone used it incorrectly on Barney as well!
> That's seems to be where I garnered my assumed meaning from.
> Wow... wonders never cease.
Look up the word "camp". In the US it means
camp: something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate,
or out-of-date as to be considered amusing; something self-consciously
exaggerated or theatrical.
However that is not its root meaning, which is used in Britain (gay
capital of the world):
camp: exaggerated effeminate mannerisms exhibited especially by
homosexuals; a homosexual displaying camp
--
Our revels now are ended. These are actors as I foretold
you were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air,
and like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped
towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great
globe itself, yea, and all that it inherits, has dissolved,
and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leaves not a rack
behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little
life is rounded with a sleep.
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