Spirit of Radio Lives on the Net

[Keith Rowland]

Good grief!  Clearly the latest in the continuing onslaught against our
language, designed to obfuscate true meanings even further, and to
confuse even more the already confused speakers of said language!

NETHER:  An adjective, from the Old English "neothera."  (See how it
already has been corrupted in a mere 1200 years or less?)  Meaning lower
or under, and particularly referring to the nether world, Hades or
Hell...and now, here we are making a noun of it that has absolutely no
connection whatever to the original meaning, and at the same time adding
yet another word with the same spelling but two totally diferent
meanings (as if we needed another of these fiendish things!)

Let us herewith and forever commit this heinous contrived word to the
NETHERmost regions as it so richly deserves!!!

73,

Keith



David L. Stinson wrote:

> I've recently bumped-into a new "net-speak" word
> I just had to share with you.  The spirit of the
> radio arts lives on in the "new" communication form.
>
> nether: (nee'-ther) noun; derived from "net-ether";
> analygous to the "ether" of physics, a rarefied fluid
> or field once thought to be infused throughout the
> universe and to be the carrier of all forces,
> such as radio waves.  The nether is the ocean or
> stream of "internet" or global network data,
> taken as a whole.
>
> Useage:
> "The competitors have got a new marketing plan.
>  Get in the nether and find out about it."
>
> "Where ya been all evening?"
> "Oh, been sailin' the nether."
>
> (as salutation)
> "Yours from the nether,
>    Becky User"
>
> Pretty neat, huh?
> And cooler then "cyber-" anything.
>
> Even today when tech is going super-sonic,
> Old Radio Lives!
>
> 73 DE Dave Stinson AB5S
> arc5 at ix.netcom.com
>
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