Damn, you beat me to it! You took the words out of my mouth (where it is
likely quite dank).
Charlie
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:23 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Danke schön!
> ;-)
>
> Paradox Philippe
>
>
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
> Le 17 févr. 2015 à 16:42, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit
> :
>
> > The dictionary that pops up when I highlight a word on my Mac says for
> dank:
> >
> > dank |daNGk| adjective
> > disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.
> > DERIVATIVES
> > dankly adverb.
> > dankness noun
> > ORIGIN Middle English: probably ofScandinavian origin and related to
> Swedishdank ‘marshy spot.’
> > I tend to think of some basements as being dank. Seldom, if ever, have I
> used the word as a direct description of weather. In days gone by during my
> youthful explorations of the mountains of Western North Carolina, I might
> have escaped a maddening and ongoing drizzle by ducking into a natural rock
> shelter. The shelter might be dank, musty, etc., but not the weather
> outside it. Hope this is slightly clearer than mud. I do think that if I
> saw the above mentioned adverb— dankly—I might collapse with laughter,
> which, I suspect, would not be what the writer intended.
> > But then I’m not sure I would have subtracted points from a pupil’s
> paper for using it as your daughter did. Instead, I might have written a
> note in the margin explaining distinctions as I understood them.
> > —Bob Whitmire
> >
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