Also: the Fiendz are a punk band from Jersey, so I don't know what I was thinking
I just typed the word "feen" in an e-mail (about a song, not about drugs, you narc) and thought, "No, that can't be right. I've never even seen that word before." Googling revealed that the word I wanted was "fiend." Right. Of course. Where the hell did I get "feen"? Pronunciation?
According to this snotty Urban Dictionary entry:
Yeah, I guess it's just a pronunciation thing. Generation Awesome, indeed.
*[my emphasis] Hartman's Law confirmed again.
According to this snotty Urban Dictionary entry:
Used by people who listen to other people who have no idea what they are talking about. At some point I assume somewhere between Generation X and Y someone overheard a word being used and misinterpred it. Now legions of people born after 1977 are saying the word Feen. The word used which they misheard is Fiend defined as a person who is craving something in a maniacle way.
improper use of said non-word:
I'm feening some weed!
propper* use:
I'm fiending some weed!
Yeah, I guess it's just a pronunciation thing. Generation Awesome, indeed.
*[my emphasis] Hartman's Law confirmed again.
posted by Stanley at 13:11
3 Comments:
That is a very, very loose usage of the term "propper".
The misspelling of maniacal reminds me of this poem by William Blake, especially the "mind-forged manacles" line:
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born Infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
Great work.
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