Monday, September 03, 2007

SOCKING IT TO TROUSERS AS SERIOUS STUFF
In my last post I used the "quaint" term "grobble". Trousers asked about this word although really the picture of Mr Punch and Judy showed it all a thousand times or more already. However as Trousers is keen and clean in most of his ways the Zola feels quite obliged to be serious and to say more about this " to grobble or be grobbled or to be involved in grobble and grobbling". However there is also "grobbl(ed)" which has an educational intent and/or consequence, manifest or latent - this can be intentional or unintentional, also, and even, have no obvious consequences, at least for now - and I must leave it up to the French Intellectuals to sort out the rest. However a few guidelines :-

1) Grobble has a Finngelski origin rather than a Latin origin. Grobble is a term of and for the blogosphere as a written Oral Tradition.
2) Grobble is a process rather than a A-nouning-act ( it is also verbing the world). In this the grobble is situated before and beyond idle definition. It is also relational.
3) A "grobble" is related, in the process, to a fairly predictable set of timetabled happenings which often, but not always, display a blurred pattern, as in a) a "goosing", b) a "giggle" and, c) a "gobble. Then; d) a gaggle to be followed by a "real grobbling event". ( who said the postModern has no timetables?)
4) It is rumoured that one part of this oral tradition of the grobble is also related to a certain Beadle surprising, an oft mentioned, Mrs Malaprop to such an extent that she was to try and speak out loud with her mouth full ( not a usual politeness from Mrs Malaprop) so who can tell in this world without origins? Far be it for me to promote rumour but in the name of truth your Zola does is best to inform.

Zola hopes that this serious post helps all TEFL professionals to grapple with the evolution of EEOT ( English as an Evolutionary Oral Tradition). It is also hoped that Trousers will find his lost sock now and find that extra footing he seeks. My god I will need all the help I can get if Butwhatif starts up agin. So Zola is serious and kindly today.

12 comments:

Merkin said...

I quite like the Urban Dictionery definition :

'Any smokin' hot chick or chicks. Originated from "robble grobble," the incoherent shouting sounds made during crowd or mob scenes in the television show South Park. An effective phrase to use when trying to look busy working while checking out chicks from your office window. Shortened to "grobble" to more easily indicate that a hot girl is approaching and interested men should take heed.

Look to your right, there is some smokin' grobble over there. Hot damn!'

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grobble

However, I prefer Zola's.

zola a social thing said...

Mr Punch says : "let them eat cake" and then after a bit of a smack says, " I will grobble and be a grobbler" as Cherie will testify.

Anonymous said...

Dirty muthas...........
it can only get worse.
I only hope that I too find a Punch and Judy someplace whilst i am away for the next couple of weeks.....are they in Somerset do you know...and Wales ?
love to you ZoZo Bear xx

zola a social thing said...

LavenderB going where the cider apples grow? Um....
Then to Wales and the male voice choirs....um..um.
Have a nice trip LavenderBlue and always remember that when you seek you never find the Punch and Judy types.
It is a happening.

Anonymous said...

Thank you zola, this post was above and beyond the call of duty. I can now refer to grobbling with all confidence, and shall see how many times I can slip it into polite conversation (or if all goes wrong, police conversation) this week.

Anonymous said...

Now, now, Mr Zola, if you persist in traducing me - not to mention the good Beadle - in this shameless fashion I shall spiflicate you.

[Peg for next etymological dissertation.]

Anonymous said...

Spiflicate?
Takes me back a long way.

zola a social thing said...

All part of the spifing service me olds.

Anonymous said...

I NEVER speak out loud with my mouth full.

I am a respectable woman.

Anonymous said...

A grobbler: a gate-keeper and representative of cultural capital (2008), prone towards acting in bad faith.

At least according to The Snu.

zola a social thing said...

I knew it had to come.
I think this is anti-toni Giddens at work here but what if it is.......

Anonymous said...

Yes, I guess there was a little structuration theory to my comment. About how those all those dodgy agents got Grobbelaar (sp?) to structure the results of his matches.

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