{"id":182320,"date":"2015-10-20T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/how-utterly-appropriate-2\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:03:00","slug":"how-utterly-appropriate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/how-utterly-appropriate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Utterly Appropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned today that in Norway, <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.blog.statesman.com\/2015\/10\/20\/texas-is-slang-for-crazy-in-norway\/\">the word &#8220;Texas: is slang for insanity, mayhem, and chaos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Y\u2019all already all know that Texas is known for its slang. The state is home to a slew of Southern colloquialisms as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/texas-sayings\/\">totally unique sayings<\/a> you won\u2019t hear anywhere else.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But did you know that the word \u201cTexas\u201d is in itself a slang word?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-daily-post\/yall-norwegians-use-the-word-texas-as-slang-to-mean-crazy\/\">Texas Monthly,<\/a> Norwegians have long used the word \u201cTexas\u201d in lieu of the word \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Think that last statement is hogwash?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Just look at this headline from a Norwegian sports website, VG Sporten:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/07vvQ91.jpg\" width=\"430\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">To explain the language phenomenon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-daily-post\/yall-norwegians-use-the-word-texas-as-slang-to-mean-crazy\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a> cited a Tumblr which claimed that Norwegian slang word has a lot to do with its association to the wild west and Western shoot-em-up movies. Another web travelogue we found on the internet explained it this way: &nbsp;<i>\u201cIn Norwegian, \u2018texas\u2019 means mayhem and chaos, as in cowboys punching each other and breaking chairs over each other\u2019s heads.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a Reddit string entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/texas\/comments\/37mwnx\/norwegians_on_texas\/\">Norwegians on Texas<\/a>,\u201d one Reddit user wrote that&nbsp;when he uses the expression \u201cDet var helt Texas,\u201d he pictures a&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201ccowboy crashing a party and shooting two revolvers into the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly not the most current of cultural references and can certainly lead to negative connotations, but it might be worth noting that the idiom is a largely old one.&nbsp;Some speculate that the idiom has been in use since at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sortulv\/status\/569891736962662401\">least the 1970s<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering my failed attempt to raise the term Snollygoster in the public consciousness, maybe it is time for me to start using &#8220;Totally Texas&#8221; for batsh%$ insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned today that in Norway, the word &#8220;Texas: is slang for insanity, mayhem, and chaos: Y\u2019all already all know that Texas is known for its slang. The state is home to a slew of Southern colloquialisms as well as totally unique sayings you won\u2019t hear anywhere else. But did you know that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1130,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}