7/31/20

Human's Tribune

Volume 3

Issue 26

Friday, July 31, 2020

Classic Article:You're Saying It Wrong

By Antoinette Durand

Common sayings like, "worth their salt," and "take it with a grain of salt" can sometimes be mixed up. People who are worth their salt are good at what they do. Roman soldiers were paid in salt. If someone tells you to "take it with a grain of salt," it means that it's not infallible or it's possible it's wrong. "Not worth a grain of salt" is a common phrase that is a mix of the first two said sayings. It doesn't really mean anything.

Has someone ever said to you during an argument, "I could care less"? If you were to stop and think about it, that undermines their argument. The actual phrase it "I couldn't care less."

You mean that the world can be brutal is you say, "It's a doggy-dog world." "Dog-eat-dog world" is the correct version of the phrase. The rapper Snoop Dog released a song in 1993 that said "doggy-dog world". The saying comes from the Latin canis caninam non est.

A person who made major changes in their life could be said to have done a 180 in their life. That's actually correct. The phrase can be said incorrectly as "they did a 360 in their life". A 360 is a circle. If you're facing North and you do a 180, you'll end up facing South.
From How Stuff Works.

Image from ABC.

Who is Karen?

By Antoinette Durand

Even though I'm not on social media, I still know about Karen, the mad, middle-aged woman demanding to see the manager. Karen is a stereotype for an entitled and snooty white woman. Karen may have come from the movie Mean Girls. A character named Karen asks an African person why she was white.

As recently as May of this year, a woman was given the title of Central Park Karen. She was "threatened" by a black man because he asked her to leash her dog. Karen called the police.

Information from How Stuff Works.

The Tyger

By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

From poets.org.