(urth) Rudesind / Inire / Lunar Picture

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All of the JW's are stupid.

That doesn't necessarily mean a lot: many people here are stupid, at least
once in a while - even I have been stupid upon occasion.

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> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
>> Also, "your blue Urth" is ultimately the translator's choice of words,
> not necessarily a literal translation of what Severian recorded. "Your
> [item]" is part of an English idiom that is popular among craftsmen who
> work on other people's property, perhaps like an engineer who has been
> hired to improve an existing potato chip production line, and this has
> become a marketing tool where "your" addresses the audience even if they
> don't own the item yet, and even if the crafter is promoting a recipe or
> abstract idea rather than a service.
>>Googling "your basic" yields 2 million + examples of this modest
> variation, but the idiom is at least decades old; "Your Show of Shows"
> debuted in 1950.
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> This use of "your" is common in Ireland, and has almost certainly been so
> for generations.. A very common version is "your man" meaning "that man",
> as
> in "[Do you] see your man over there?".
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> Other versions use "your" in place of "the", as in "Your frog, now, [ in
> contrast to some previously mentioned creature] is a  more amphibious type
> of fellow".
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> Of course the idiom may not be as common everywhere; but for me Rudesind's
> use of "your"
> carries no special implications relating to ownership or origin, and such
> implications never occurred to me before I saw them discussed on this
> list.
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> - Gerry Quinn
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