| Should-ah! Could-ah! Would-ah! |
We have a nice little rhyme here in Canada that we sometimes say in response to someone else needling us for some wrong decision we have made after it is too late to fix it. We say, "Should-ah! Could-ah! Would-ah!" - and by that we mean that since it is too late now to change anything, saying that we should have or could have done something other - or even that we would have, had we known it would turn out thus - these sorts of statements are utterly pointless, and the phrase is therefore uttered to point out the uselessness of going over with a microscope what could have, or even should have been.
It works nice because it rhymes. Like when people say, "Too bad, so sad." - which is a similar comment, in that it typically is used to dismiss something that one doesn't really care to think about, beyond the superficial and almost universal acknowledgment that whatever is being set aside is certainly unfortunate, but nevertheless, not going to be discussed beyond that at any real level.
"My bad!" is a phrase that I suppose many have picked up on too. It means "I was at fault, and I acknowledge my role as such, but let's move on."
I don't know why I decided to post on these little phrases this morning. But as a blogger I reserve the right to post things of little or no significance.Labels: fluff |
posted by Daniel @
9:15 AM
 
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"as a blogger I reserve the right to post things of little or no significance."
Ain't it the truth.
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And I was waiting for the huge spiritual implications of these phrases.
How about, "every man's way is right in his own eyes", or we are so much quicker to forgive ourselves than those who have offended us?
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David - it kinda makes you wonder at what sort of junk never makes it past the editing screen?
Jim - I never know when I start to make a post if some spiritual truth is going to jump out.
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"as a blogger I reserve the right to post things of little or no significance."
Ain't it the truth.