Sunday, July 31, 2011
It "pops"
I've noticed a new word that I've been hearing in the last year or two, and I like this one. I've been using it myself sometimes, and it really sounds great for it's new, present tense meaning. Whether it will go out of use or not, which it probably will, and be replaced with some other word, will remain for us to see, or hear, as the story goes.....I started hearing the word probably last school year when some of the ladies that I work with were talking about colors on each other, and someone told me that red really pops on me. I've also been using the term when we would discuss jewelry and the wearing of white gold, silver, or yellow gold. One of the African American ladies that I work with on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan who dresses really well and always looks so professional, wears lots of yellow gold. She always has lots of bracelets on her arms and gold around her neck and ear rings. I, on the other hand, wear quite a bit of silver and white gold. We were comparing how we as individuals looked really good in the color choices of jewelry that we each had individually gone with for ourselves. We both agreed that the silver really "popped" on me and that the gold really "popped" on her, meaning that the gold and the silver were complimentary to our skin tones as better, one than the other, for the choice that each of us had picked for ourselves. Also, just living in my newly purchased home in Jonesborough for two summers now, I have been doing some decorating and furnishing for my home so that I can comfortably live in it and enjoy it throughout the summers when I arrive back here. A girl that had been helping me from the store Gracious Designs down on Main Street, had come home with me one afternoon and looking at some pictures that I'd hung and previously purchased from the store, said, the colors in the pictures really make your furniture and the lighter colors in here "pop". So, I presume that "pop" has the modern connotation of beauty, color, and "you stand out"! These would all be good traits for a metaphorical description of the effective storyteller in the execution of their perfellon and convellon.
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