[ SECRET POST #2956 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2956 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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09. [ SPOILERS for Fiddler on the Roof ]



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12. [ WARNING for abuse ]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #422.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is "whitewash" becoming an "aloha" word? Because I keep on seeing new uses for it that have nothing to do with it's original meaning.

Personally, that word can't disappear from the public's tongue soon enough. Sorry, Mr. Twain.

[(Anonymous)]

Secret anon is not a native speaker, so I apologise for misusing it, but the way I have usually seen it used is in a moral sense (washing someone of their sins, sort of, not racially). It's usually the word people used to complain when talking about the, er, de-eviling of these two characters.

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na

no, you're right. one of the alternate definitions that doesn't involve literally painting something white is "anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame" which makes sense for your secret. I guess the other anon is just upset that language is constantly evolving and changing...it's just what language does

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't a new usage for it, though. This meaning was used way back during M*A*S*H.

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da

Hell, it was used that way back in the 1800s. I'm not really sure what the issue is here

[(Anonymous)]

... you don't like that the meaning of words evolves? I have some bad news for you about how language works.

[(Anonymous)]

except that in this case, the way it's used here is much older than the one that anon up there is thinking of. Actually, "White-washing" a character as in "washing out the color/casting them as white" is a really jarring tabloid sort of language, and clearly more modern than the idea of "whitewashing" as in "washing out blood-/moral stains".

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, afaik the original meaning of whitewashing didn't come from washing out fabric, but from painting walls white. Whitewash was the material they used to paint walls, so whitewashing is covering up the dirt/hiding the flaws.
Which makes the most sense, imo.