20$ for a juice? I thought the dollar was already pretty high these days? Seldom do I say this phrase but what the fuck!
On 5/9/11, Wes Kussmaul <w...@authentrus.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:54 +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > >> Just look for the origin: the verb is "sophistiquer"... The usage and >> the dictionnaries are inconsistant, since "sophistiqué" (now used non >> pejoratively) is the past participle of "sophistiquer" that is >> definitively pejorative. (Look for "sophistiquement" too; all this comes >> from philosophy where sophiste is not to be taken in good part)... > > > This is where semantics encounters the "everybody's somebody's fool" > principle. I hang out with people who pay $20+++ for a liter of spoiled > grape juice. The more they pay the more their peers regard them as being > sophisticated. People outside that culture would see that very same use > of the term "sophisticated" as a pejorative. Sophistication is in the > eye of the beholder. >
