Friday, August 26, 2011

As She Watched the Soldiers Run from the Horse, She Thought Gleefully of her City's Demise

I love English, but I think we need to expand it. As fully complex as our language is, there are still concepts that could use just one word or a nice short phrase to explain the emotion they create.

The funny thing is, these are emotions that we quite often feel, but tend to express in generic terms. Disappointment. Vindication. Frustration. Yes, these words are good, but sometimes an emotion is very precise to a situation.  In these cases, there should be a special word or phrase to explain it.

Recently, my best friend and I were talking about a situation where she had been discovered to be correct about something after months and months of being disbelieved. Somehow we got off onto that moment when you realize everyone knows you're right and were right all along. They also realize they've been assholes about it. And it makes you feel so GOOD. That needs a word.

Is it vindication? Well, it is, but there is so much more to it than that. I asked my friend to describe what the word should be and she opted instead for a phrase.

By god, I fucking TOLD YOU SO, motherfucker motherfucker!!"

She said there needed to be two "motherfuckers" because one just wasn't enough.  There were also usually other people involved in the doubt. An additional "mother fucker" should be added for each of them.

It's like on movies (horror, creature feature, disaster, etc.) how there is usually this one person who is fully and intelligently aware that DOOM is approaching.  They saw the ghosts or aliens or read a report about the planet or have degrees and brains or overheard something or got knocked across the room by a possessed person. They try to warn people, but no one listens.

Actually, if they're lucky, no one listens.  Often, they're treated as crazy and are just ignored. This is actually the less horrible fate for them. Other times, they're accused of things and put in prison or shot. Then the thing they warned everyone about happens.  They may act humble when people tell them how they were correct the whole time, but inside they're thinking: By god, I fucking TOLD YOU SO, motherfucker motherfucker!!"
As my roommate and I discussed earlier today, it would actually be funny to, for once, see one of these people just stand back in joy, watching as their predictions are playing out and no one is safe but them.

Anyway, this is our word for the day. Well, it's our word or phrase. Or rather, it WILL be. Once we decide what that word should be called. I can't wait to see what we dream up.



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