Marine Corps euphamism
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the film "Full Metal Jacket" but there is a line spoken by R. Lee Ermy (as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman): "I will motivate you Private Pyle, if it...
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We said Air Force glove in the Marines too.One thing that is a little more official is the use of cover for hat. To hear someone say "Hey Crazy, get that cover on your nasty grape" was pretty common,...
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You can get pretty racy here. The only limitations are that:1) the discussion must be centered on the language--no pornographic passages purely for prurient interest, and2) refrain from interjecting...
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Thanks Dave.Sexual references made by Marine Drill Instructors:Cock-holster/Dick-skinner: HandCum-dumpster: MouthA Marine I served with who was from southern Illinois and used to claim that Illinois...
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I can tell you that it's not widely used in southern Illinois.
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Okay, but what about the South?(Don't answer that; I'm just making fun of that guy.)
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Linguistically, the guy is not far off. Southern Illinois is generally classified as "Southern Midlands." Dialectically, residents there have more in common with people from Kentucky or Tennessee than...
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Dave, the guy did seem to have a lot of Southern characteristics to his speech. (I'm going to bring this up to my wife the SLP and see what she says.)Aldiboronti, awesome site.
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Southern Illinois is generally classified as "Southern Midlands." Dialectically, residents there have more in common with people from Kentucky or Tennessee than they do with those from Chicago.Where...
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The DARE maps show Illinois with three distinct regional areas. The Northern speech patterns can be found in Chicago and the counties to the west; draw a line across the state at about Moline.Northern...
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Sounds right to me (I'm sure the folks at DARE will be relieved), at least with respect to where Southern Midlands kicks in. I don't think my ear is well attuned to the Northern vs. Northern Midlands...
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BTW this page has origins for gyrene, jarhead and grunt.Here's what it has to say about the first: Around 1900, members of the U.S. Navy began using Gyrene as a jocular derogatory reference to U.S....
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Regarding Gyrene and Jarhead, the offered explanations are as legitimate as what I have heard about Leatherneck and Tufelhunden. As far as I'm concerned, accurate enough considering the fact that...
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>BTW this page has origins for gyrene, jarhead and grunt. ... Accurate?No."Grunt" predates Vietnam."Gyrene" occurred long before "GI" did."Jarhead" meant "mule" (from 1918), then "US Army...
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In most cases, the distinction between a language and a dialect is a matter of convention and takes into account political and social factors in addition to linguistic ones. ("A language is a dialect...
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I have seen from different Internet sources and word of mouth sources (from the Marines) many different origins of Marine Corps terms. My above answer as to the legitimacy of Marine terms should be...
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I understand that this is an incredibly fallible argumentI don't even know what the "argument" is supposed to be. There's the right etymology, the wrong etymology, and the Army etymology? Either the...
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Language hatI am not trying to make an etymological argument. That is why I qualified what I said about the importance of tradition by saying that the "urban legend" version of military terms would...
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I question the concept of "true meaning." Words mean what we use them to mean regardless of logic or etymology. The original meaning of a word is not its "true" meaning anymore than a picture of me...
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smithbc: OK, I understand where you're coming from now. Thanks for clarifying.
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