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So, now we know a bit more about haha.
04-03-2013, 10:17 PM
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So, now we know a bit more about haha.
Word of the Day for Monday, April 1, 2013
ha-ha \HAH-hah\, noun:
sunk fence. After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again. "I must move," said she; "resting fatigues me. I have looked across the ha-ha till I am weary. I must go and look through that iron gate at the same view, without being able to see it so well."
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1851 He wondered from which window Hamilton Rowan had thrown his hat on the ha-ha and had there been flowerbeds at that time under the windows.
-- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, 1916 A ha-ha is a boundary wall concealed in a ditch so that it does not intrude upon the view... The name ha-ha derives from the exclamation that a stranger might make upon coming upon such a ditch unexpectedly from the top of the wall. An experience of this kind could, of course, be highly dangerous to the unwary.
-- Dave King, The Ha-Ha, 2005 But the peril is an illusion, because the main surfaces are separated from the edges by a ha-ha, a sunken walkway that functions as a barrier.
-- David Owen, "The Psychology of Space," The New Yorker, January 21, 2013 Ha-ha comes from the French ha!, a common exclamation of surprise. Because ha-has are designed to be difficult to see, people would shout in surprise upon stumbling into them.
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04-03-2013, 10:42 PM
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ahah. now I get it.
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04-04-2013, 12:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redduck
Because ha-has are designed to be difficult to see, people would shout in surprise upon stumbling into them.
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Hmmm... That's not what I usually shout upon stumbling...
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04-04-2013, 07:40 AM
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So what did poor haha do to be compared to a ditch
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04-04-2013, 09:02 AM
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If ha-ha falls down, does it make a sound?
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04-04-2013, 09:08 AM
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.... Oh, D-itch... Nevermind...
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04-07-2013, 10:35 AM
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