(Definition of trope-ics: a really hot place where you have to think and write about tropes all day, but not to be confused with hell. ) (Etymology: 21st C., uncertain, probably first uttered by a woman who'd been sitting in the sun too long.)
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Bonnie's neologism: livin' in the trope-ics
It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it, so they sent the five strongest women they could find. The East Tennessee air was thick with heat and humidity, and the texts were dense as jungles with the obscure words and convoluted sentences of academics trying to impress one another. There was not nearly enough vodka to go around. These hardy women noticed a strange fungus startin' to grow between their toes and around their brain cells. They would sit around of an evenin', sippin' sweet tea and dreamin' of the cool breezes and normal words and sentences back home. As darkness began to fall, one of them would sigh and say, "Boy, I can't wait to get out of the trope-ics."
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Did you check the etymology of "trope"? It is indeed, as you suggested, related to "Tropic":
ReplyDeletefrom L. tropicus "pertaining to a turn," from Gk. tropikos "of or pertaining to a turn or change, or to the solstice" (as a noun, "the solstice"), from trope "a turning" (see trope).