LAHomedog
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I have always believed that we all have a "stage size" that we can live our lives on. Let me use musicians as an example:
Every musical artist has a room size that they can interest and hold through their talent, music, stage presence and charisma. It called "holding the room."
Some can hold a local dance, some a bar's dance floor. Some move to shows, concerts, and the size of their venue changes. I've seen bands who were great in a 1,000 seat venue and died in 3,000 seats. Then you have the folks who can hold a 50,000 seat stadium and blow them away.
I have seen Sting move from intimate venues to some of the largest in the world. In a 16,000 seat venue I watched him step out solo with just an acoustic guitar and hold the room. A pin wouldn't drop. The Stones blew the roof off of Dodger Stadium.
I believe our lives are the same. We all have a room/stage that our lives play out on. At first, our world is the house (or houses) where we are raised, and then our neighborhood. Then our schools, and activity sites like playgrounds and fields. Eventually some of us start to branch out to other places.
Who we are, our talents, our curiosity, our drives and needs, success and how people react, all factor in. Some never leave their neighborhood. Some have lives in their city. They can hold that room. Some are national, and increasingly people are becoming citizens of the world and the planet is their life's stage. Sports, show business, and now the business world let's folks expand their lives to the world stage.
I think that impacts what we know about language and how colloquialisms move from community to community/culture to culture.
Take "fuck" as an example. Shag, bang, lay, etc. In Japan there is no word for fuck as a sexual act. The word is "fuck" learned from GIs after WWII.
After the Beatles everything in my world was "fab" and girls were "birds" And then there is jargon. If you work i theater, the things you hang lights on are "pipes" in England they are "barrels." I nearly got hit on the head on a stage in England because someone shouted, "Look out for that barrel," and I was looking on the floor not to trip
And that's a true story.
Every musical artist has a room size that they can interest and hold through their talent, music, stage presence and charisma. It called "holding the room."
Some can hold a local dance, some a bar's dance floor. Some move to shows, concerts, and the size of their venue changes. I've seen bands who were great in a 1,000 seat venue and died in 3,000 seats. Then you have the folks who can hold a 50,000 seat stadium and blow them away.
I have seen Sting move from intimate venues to some of the largest in the world. In a 16,000 seat venue I watched him step out solo with just an acoustic guitar and hold the room. A pin wouldn't drop. The Stones blew the roof off of Dodger Stadium.
I believe our lives are the same. We all have a room/stage that our lives play out on. At first, our world is the house (or houses) where we are raised, and then our neighborhood. Then our schools, and activity sites like playgrounds and fields. Eventually some of us start to branch out to other places.
Who we are, our talents, our curiosity, our drives and needs, success and how people react, all factor in. Some never leave their neighborhood. Some have lives in their city. They can hold that room. Some are national, and increasingly people are becoming citizens of the world and the planet is their life's stage. Sports, show business, and now the business world let's folks expand their lives to the world stage.
I think that impacts what we know about language and how colloquialisms move from community to community/culture to culture.
Take "fuck" as an example. Shag, bang, lay, etc. In Japan there is no word for fuck as a sexual act. The word is "fuck" learned from GIs after WWII.
After the Beatles everything in my world was "fab" and girls were "birds" And then there is jargon. If you work i theater, the things you hang lights on are "pipes" in England they are "barrels." I nearly got hit on the head on a stage in England because someone shouted, "Look out for that barrel," and I was looking on the floor not to trip