I washed a pair of jeans at the weekend. When I looked at the results, I decided they now looked drinted. On a whim, I did a SOL advanced search for stories containing 'drinted' and got no hits. Then I did a google search for 'drinted' in online English dictionaries. No hits on the first few pages.
Have I been kidnapped by aliens and relocated to a parallel universe where the word 'drinted' never existed?
AJ
Have I been kidnapped by aliens and relocated to a parallel universe where the word 'drinted' never existed?
Yes ;)
Tell us what you think the word means and we'll tell you what the real word for that meaning is.
Loss of original colour from a garment due to eg washing or strong sunlight.
I've heard of the terms 'faded' and 'washed out' used for that meaning in a number of cultures. I've even heard the term 'tie-dyed' used for a very seriously affected item, despite that term really having a different meaning of how to colour material.
and @awnlee jawking
Drinted is an interesting word. When I read the OP something has been niggling at the back of my consciousness. I think I recall hearing this word from at least one of Grandmothers, or other older relatives.
Ernest Bywater, your post further sparked my memories/imagination.
I intend to find opportunities to use Drinted in some of my writing.
I intend to find opportunities to use Drinted in some of my writing.
as it is not a very common term you should make a point of explaining it the first time you use it in a story.
as it {Drinted} is not a very common term you should make a point of explaining it the first time you use it in a story.
I fully intend to explain what the term means. It is not complicated. It is a term that fits multiple of my characters in various stories.
Drinted is not a "major plot point" just an interesting little quirk. I tend to make some indication of clothing of some of my characters. Some are stylish and "Mod" or trendy; others tend to practical, sturdy, and occasionally well-worn (thus a potential for use of Drinted) clothing.
Drinted is not a "major plot point" just an interesting little quirk.
which is the sort of thing that adds a bit more 'character' to the story.
I intend to find opportunities to use Drinted in some of my writing.
Why? No one knows what it means. Why do that to your readers?
Why? No one knows what it means. Why do that to your readers?
A lot of my writing is not commonly known. The types of wounds to combatants of the Twenty First Century, physical, mental, and emotional, or Black Cowboys in Wyoming or Colorado, varieties of firearms, or a bit about the fractured nature of Afghanistan with Pashtun, Dari, and Uzbeks, etc.
I, and I hope most people, read to learn things they don't yet know (or have perhaps forgotten). One of my favorite teachers encouraged "Learning a Word a Day" something I try to do.
I wouldn't try to shoehorn Drinted into every story, but as I commented to Ernest Bywater, the word fits some characters I write. It is not a complex concept, it is an interesting little quirk, and I believe would fit well in some of my stories.
I think I recall hearing this word from at least one of Grandmothers, or other older relatives.
If you don't mind my asking, where in the world did they hail from?
AJ
The one I am thinking of in particular was from southeast Ohio, just over the Ohio from the Kentucky/West Virginia state-lines. Others came from Appalachian Kentucky.
The one I am thinking of in particular was from southeast Ohio, just over the Ohio from the Kentucky/West Virginia state-lines. Others came from Appalachian Kentucky.
drinted
I found this:
Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?id=J8_9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT855&lpg=PT855&dq=drinted&source=bl&ots=tZGiaD8EAn&sig=ACfU3U042ULML-aXdIA8FFqWyFuCzPapWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis1PqMyM34AhWXIUQIHeOlDlEQ6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage&q=drinted&f=false
Can't copy and paste from the result but essentially drint = to fade. This is a regionalism from the WW1 era.
Given the age and how localized the source indicates it is, it's no surprise you couldn't find it in an on-line dictionary.
Can't copy and paste from the result but essentially drint = to fade. This is a regionalism from the WW1 era.
Thank you, that sounds about right, although since my parents and I used the term, it wasn't confined entirely to the Southern Appalachians.
AJ
although since my parents and I used the term, it wasn't confined entirely to the Southern Appalachians
According to that source it wasn't even all of the Southern Appalachians, it was specifically Tennessee Mountains.
Are you sure neither of your parents had family from that area?
Absolutely. Both were from Northern England, from families that stayed in the same area until the wars.
AJ
Both were from Northern England,
I once saw a movie ("Songcatcher") about a woman in 1907, a professor of musicology, who discovers in the Appalachians hillbilly songs that were handed down generation after generation that were ancient Scots-Irish ballads. So there is a link between Northern England and Appalachia.
I once saw a movie ("Songcatcher") about a woman in 1907, a professor of musicology, who discovers in the Appalachians hillbilly songs that were handed down generation after generation that were ancient Scots-Irish ballads. So there is a link between Northern England and Appalachia.
Parts of the Appalachians reminded the Scots of the Highlands. As a result, a lot of immigration occured as they moved into the area.
Absolutely. Both were from Northern England, from families that stayed in the same area until the wars.
The World Wars picked up people from all over the world and threw them together. They could have picked it up from one of them.
I'm from that neck of the woods, western NC/SC and eastern TN/KY. It's an antiquated term, but still used by the older folks from the region.
Have I been kidnapped by aliens and relocated to a parallel universe where the word 'drinted' never existed?
Have you considered turning the 'd' upside down?
Your jeans would then appear printed.
:)
Have you considered turning the 'd' upside down?
Your jeans would then appear printed.
That could make for an interesting universe component. First thing in the morning, after the SSS, people walk into their 3D printers and have their couture du jour painted on. So everyone actually goes around naked apart from a thin layer of body paint. NiS - Naked in Space?
AJ
That could make for an interesting universe component. First thing in the morning, after the SSS, people walk into their 3D printers and have their couture du jour painted on. So everyone actually goes around naked apart from a thin layer of body paint.
Deana Johns - Castle in the Sand (Not on SoL) Includes a 3D body scanner and body 'printer' on to which clothes are 'spun' complete with desired colour/artwork. Story is copyright back in 1997.
But those are clothes - an impediment to sex!
I worry about you. This is one of those times, because you seem to think that sex is impossible unless naked. A carefully chosen outfit can arouse, inspire and facilitate sexual congress.
Although given recent events in the US, a guy is more likely to get laid if he presents the girl with travel, hotel and hospital vouchers to a 'safe' State. Just in case. Given that the American Taliban has killed Roe v Wade.
killed Roe v Wade.
Roe V Wade killed Roe V Wade. That erroneous decision effectively set US law for five decades. In fifty years, it could have been codified, however the politicians hide behind the decision rather than legitimately write and vote in an appropriate law.
It was never the place of SCOTUS to set US law.
Even the "sainted" "RBG" (Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg) agreed that Roe v. Wade was terrible jurisprudence. RBG was still an extreme advocate of nearly all forms of abortion.
Roe v. Wade was bad "lawmaking" by SCOTUS, in particular because it forced it upon the entire nation AND "created" a new legal concept of broadly "discovering" "rights" in the "Emanations and Penumbras" of the Constitution (or potentially other laws too).
A "Taliban" would have Imposed their interpretation upon All of the States/People of the USA.
The recent SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v. Jackson returns regulating abortion to the Legislatures, Both State and Federal. As there is insufficient national agreement to pass a Constitutional Amendment (nor to break a senate filibuster); it will be a matter in a few closely divided states.
Abortion is STILL LEGAL in ALL of the 50 States! Some twenty states have stricter regulations limiting abortion to the first 16 weeks or requiring a doctor with admitting privileges at a nearby hospital be present.
Since the late 1990's the USA has become an Extremist outlier in terms of abortion. Europe and most of the Civilized world limit abortion to the first 6 weeks to 16 weeks. Few nations allow abortion beyond 20 weeks. Communist China, North Korea and the USA, were among the few aberrations with similarly EXTREME lack of limits on abortion, until the SCOTUS Dobbs v. Jackson ruling on 23 July 2022.
Horrors such as "partial Birth" abortion are still Legal in California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, and most other Leftist states. States with Democrat majority legislatures who have not passed any relevant legislation since Roe v. Wade are likely to expand abortion "rights" to well beyond Roe v. Wade and it's "three trimester" "standard"
No state prevents abortion to save the Life of the mother. Many states have (or will enact) limitations on abortion to 12 to 16 weeks; the more conservative ones may enact a "heartbeat" limitation.
The majority of the American people are in concurrence with most of Europe, they want Limitations on Abortion to between 6 to 16 weeks (except when the Extremely Rare cases of risk to the Life of the mother), and significant safety regulations.
All losses of life are tragic. Deaths from "back alley" abortions were rare, a very small percentage. Sadly, a similar low percentage of women Die because of Legal abortions. Sadly, because of the proliferation of Legal abortions More Women die than during the "dark days of back-alley abortions" Most abortions are performed in "clinics" and not necessarily by doctors.
Extremists in favor of abortions are a significant reason there is such strong opposition to Federal Imposition of abortion policies everywhere in the USA. It is more "Taliban" like to Require Catholic (or other) Hospitals to perform abortions. Requiring every Doctor to perform abortions, despite their beliefs. or the Horrors of partial "Birth" abortions. NONE of the above were part of Roe v. Wade; they are comparatively recent "enhancements" to abortion, Imposed using Government Compulsion!
Abortion DIPRAPORTIONALLY KILLS BLACK BABIES and IMHO is Targeted at Black (and to a lesser degree "Brown") Babies!
It is a LIE that abortion has been "outlawed" nationwide, or that it is a "Threat to democracy" to return matters of abortion to the Legislature rather than the courts. Having ONE (or Nine) people in Black Robes "decide" (impose) abortion IS "anti-democratic"
Leftists are the Extremists trying to IMPOSE Their Will upon the entire nation on matters of abortion, and many other things. Conservatives are inclined to allow such matters to be decided locally or by the several states.
Most abortions are performed in "clinics" and not necessarily by doctors.
Actually, 54% of the abortions are done with the abortion pill.
Abortion is not legal in all 50 states since the SCOTUS ruling. Even in my state, Arizona, which doesn't show up on a map on the news as a state that has a trigger law, it's no longer being done because there are two laws on the books and doctors don't want to risk it not knowing which will be enforced. There's a 1901 law that outlaws all abortions and a more recent one that allows it up to 15 weeks.
It is a LIE that abortion has been "outlawed" nationwide
Link
And
The Connecticut state Senate gave final approval late Friday to a novel plan to turn the state into an abortion safe haven for patients who live in conservative states that are moving rapidly to restrict access to the procedure.
The bill, which Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has promised to sign, was designed to shield patients and abortion providers against some of the most controversial elements of recent state-level antiabortion laws — including provisions allowing private citizens to sue anyone who helps facilitate an abortion and measures seeking to prevent residents from receiving abortions across state lines.
"Legislators in [antiabortion] states have made clear that their intent is not only to ban abortion within their own states borders but to ban it in states where it is expressly permitted," said state Rep. Matt Blumenthal (D), one of the sponsors of the bill.
It is a LIE that abortion has been "outlawed" nationwide
Abortions are going on unimpeded in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York, New Jesey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, and at least a dozen other states in accordance with State Laws passed prior to Roe v. Wade.
So, Abortion has NOT "been Outlawed" Nationwide!
I am sure that any State that does not currently have a (valid) law regulating abortion will soon have legislation. Several states that Do have Laws permitting abortion, such as California, Illinois, New York, and Washington will Further Expand their Laws & Regulations regarding abortions. Extremists will likely push for Abortion into the "Ninth Trimester!"
Abortions are going on unimpeded in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York, New Jesey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, and at least a dozen other states in accordance with State Laws passed prior to Roe v. Wade.
Your statement is inaccurate as to Wisconsin.
Wisconsin has a pre-Roe abortion ban (criminal, not just civil) technically still on the books.
https://www.wpr.org/no-wisconsin-clinics-are-providing-abortions-friday-after-scotus-struck-down-roe-v-wade
It's being challenged in the courts, but given that Roe was overturned, that may be a long shot.
Extremists will likely push for Abortion into the "Ninth Trimester!"
I've met unfortunately many people who were prime candidates for retroactive abortion
Extremists will likely push for Abortion into the "Ninth Trimester!"
I would have replied earlier, but I was laughing too much to type.
Abortion is impossible in the Ninth Trimester, as by then the child would be at least 15 months old.
I would have replied earlier, but I was laughing too much to type.
And well you Should have been Laughing! I believe we were getting a little too intense, so, I added a bit of levity...
I did emphasize: Extremists
I very loosely based that outrageous statement "Ninth Trimester" upon several (so called) "medical ethicist"
Alberto Giubilin, a philosopher from the University of Milan, and Francesca Minerva, an ethicist from the University of Melbourne, have made the case that since both the unborn baby and the newborn do not have the moral status of actual persons and are consequently morally irrelevant, what they call "after-birth abortion" should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is perfectly healthy.
"We claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."
(So called) "medical ethicists" Walter Viet and Udo Schuklenk postulate that babies under ~ two years of age are "not really persons, just like fetuses aka "Zygotes" and thus have "no right to life."
To be clear, although "inspired" by such claims, My Comment is intended in Jest.
Let's get back to Drinted!
I would have replied earlier, but I was laughing too much to type.
And well you Should have been Laughing! I believe we were getting a little too intense, so, I added a bit of levity...
I did emphasize: Extremists
I very loosely based that outrageous statement "Ninth Trimester" upon several (so called) "medical ethicist"
Alberto Giubilin, a philosopher from the University of Milan, and Francesca Minerva, an ethicist from the University of Melbourne, have made the case that since both the unborn baby and the newborn do not have the moral status of actual persons and are consequently morally irrelevant, what they call "after-birth abortion" should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is perfectly healthy.
"We claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."
(So called) "medical ethicists" Walter Viet and Udo Schuklenk postulate that babies under ~ two years of age are "not really persons, just like fetuses aka "Zygotes" and thus have "no right to life."
To be clear, although "inspired" by such claims, My Comment is intended in Jest.
Let's get back to Drinted!
Extremists will likely push for Abortion into the "Ninth Trimester!
Assuming you meant ninth month, I believe technically it can already happen if the foetus is dead. But some hard-up best-in-the-world (snort!) health services make the mother wait until the dead foetus is expelled naturally.
AJ
Assuming you meant ninth month, I believe technically it can already happen if the foetus is dead. But some hard-up best-in-the-world (snort!) health services make the mother wait until the dead foetus is expelled naturally.
My understanding is that in the US, an operation to remove an already dead fetus is not generally considered an abortion.
My understanding is that in the US, an operation to remove an already dead fetus is not generally considered an abortion.
Correct it is called a "D&C" Dilatation & Curettage surgery which may be performed up to 24 weeks. Recently (a decade or so,) they have several drugs that may be used to cause the woman's body to induce the placenta and dead baby to detach from the uterine wall similar to still birth.
I meant the "Ninth Trimester" however, I meant it in Jest. I give a more detailed answer above.
I just thought we were off track of the Drinted topic, so I made a joke, and suggested we get back to odd but interesting words.
Have I been kidnapped by aliens and relocated to a parallel universe where the word 'drinted' never existed?
The alien hypothesis is still a possibility.
The alien hypothesis is still a possibility.
According to OED, "drint" is an archaic spelling of "drenched".
