Re: [xmca] Polls are closed: Manfred Holodynsk's article is choice

[Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>]

Hi Carla,

We still use this word in parts of the American South.
Although it is listed as the 4th meaning in the *American Heritage *
dictionary.
com·mode  (k-md)
*n.*
*1. * A low cabinet or chest of drawers, often elaborately decorated and
usually standing on legs or short feet.
*2. *
*a. * A movable stand or cupboard containing a washbowl.
*b. * A chair enclosing a chamber pot.
*c. * A toilet.
*3. * A woman's ornate headdress, fashionable around 1700.
------------------------------
[French, from commode, *convenient*, from Latin commodus; see * commodious*
.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009.
Published by Houghton
Mifflin Company <http://www.eref-trade.hmco.com/>. All rights reserved.


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:02 AM, <carolmacdon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible that this is simply "common" understanding which is
> negotiated again and again and is subject to change over long periods like
> the work "toilet" which has changed time and again over the period of
> centuries.
>
> Carol
> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raquel Guzzo <rguzzo@mpc.com.br>
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> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:30:45
> To: <ablunden@mira.net>; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity<
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> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Polls are closed: Manfred Holodynsk's article is choice
>
>
> Raquel S. L. Guzzo
> Pos-Graduação em Psicologia
> Centro de Ciências da Vida
> Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
>
> rguzzo@puc-campinas.edu.br
> rguzzo@pq.cnpq.br
> rguzzo@mpc.com.br
>
> On 30 Mar 2013, at 20:21, Andy Blunden wrote:
>
> > So what can be meant by "societal meaning" then, Helena? Material
> objects (such as the bank building, and the various human bodies involved,
> and books and ledgers, coins, etc.) are "societal" in the sense of being
> universal. But "meaning" implies to me an act of "interpretation" of
> material objects, something particular. And if the Politburo is not there
> to ascribe the one societal meaning to material things/processes/events,
> what on Earth can "societal meaning" be?
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Helena Worthen wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Before this gets too long, I'll just say that I agree, there is no
> >> omniscient observer to tell us what the "societal meaning" of something
> >> is. In fact, if Manfred and I were standing in line at that bank where
> >> this happened, it might be fun for us to compare our "personal sense" of
> >> what we saw.
> >>
> >> Helena
> >
> >
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*Robert Lake  Ed.D.
*Associate Professor
Social Foundations of Education
Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Georgia Southern University
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