How were the lyrics of “Down on Me” written? Cyberherbalist’s assertion that the song is traditional, but also points out that Joplin “created new lyrics” for it. From the Dock Reed version of the song:

Mary and Martha, Luke and John, All God’s prophets dead and gone. What is it like to have everyone down on me?

From the Janis Joplin version: Believe

in your brother, have faith in man, Help each other, honey, if you can Because everybody in this whole round world Is down on me.

I agree with the previous answerers who consider Joplin’s version of the song nonsexual. I note that Peggy Caserta alluded to the song in a highly sexual way in her rather lurid tell-all biography of Joplin, Going Down With Janis, which appeared in 1973. I have not read the book, but I remember a contemporaneous review that criticized its exploitativeness (it appeared within three years of Joplin’s death and was particularly keen on detailing Joplin’s sex life). Is there a connection in Caserta’s Going Down with Janis’s On M.I.?

A little more info to supplement ermanen’s list, I note these from Merriam-Webster’s

Eleventh Collegiate

Dictionary (2003):

aye-aye (n.)

Berber (n.)

bonbon (n.)

buddy-buddy (adj.)

bulbul (n.)

caracara (n.)

cha-cha (n.)

chowchow (n.)

aye-aye (n.) —the relish not the dog, which is spelled chow chow )

dumdum (n. 4) —the bullet)

dum-dum (n. the one thing) (s.) Ganda (adj.)

go-go (adj.)

goody-goody (adj.)

goo-goo (adj.)

goo-goo (ask. & n.)

gris-gris (n.)

ha-ha (interj.)

ha-ha (n.) & ha-ha (infr.) –a sunk fence)

lavalava (n.d. lavalava) Can’t describe the interaction between mau mau

and volcanic

lava in

Japan) mau-mau

(v.) meme (n.) motmot (n.) mumu (n.) , from MW’s Unabridged Dictionary)

no-no (n.)

pawpaw (n.)

so-so (adj.) & &

adv.) tsetse

(n.) tu00fck-tut (interj.) muschi (n.) Why does

Merriam-Webster’s not acknowledge hubba-hubba by Merriam-Webster’s? I know what other dictionary I should read, but I would like to

know what they are…

What’s the sentence like and where

was the role of Mrs. Alice Austen?

(remind me of Alice Austin and her “Scrabble” album) What’s wrong with this image given that the late Ms. Austen has a huge image that her viewers may not see in the film.)

Can Austen possibly start a film with an unusual story which is then referred to by different publishers as inflated filmmaking? So the idea of inflating another role seem stranger still. When you inflate a balloon and fill it with air, it does not move. You compress the air with air in the balloon. What does inflating a balloon do? The balloons are the same again but they have air inside. There is no air inside. “To exaggerate X into Y” does not sound to me like normal U.S. English phrasing, nor does “To exaggerate X into Y.” Continually the original wording doesn’t specify what Austin’s role was before it transformed into the pioneering documentarian role; the transformation is presented as being from an unspecified role into a specific and grand role.

In a system of sorts, a role refers to something historically factual, and therefore not itself inflatable as is discussed in other systems; in contrast, a reputation is a mere bubble and can be inflated or deflated according to any appropriate public mood. Recently years have witnessed the posthumous inflation of hobbyist Alice Austen’s reputation as a documentary filmmaker, from that of a minor figure

to that of an important pioneer, while… The original wording is an instance of distractingly poor writing in a GRE question—writing that makes the sense of the sentence murkier

than it need

be, and harder for the test taker to analyze.

I first encountered qua (repeatedly) many years ago in a translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, who used the (Latin) word to convey a specific meaning involving calling out of a particular inherent quality or identity of a given thing. The term seems to retain a special sense in analytical philosophical works today. What is qua in Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: ‘In virtue of’. Is this correct in my

definition as’Quora’? Define reduplication is found in Scotus: (8.

_{10)’Qua”…properly denotes that that which follows it is the formal reason for the inherence of the predicate: such as ‘i am the first human being, white or coloured, is seen’.}

…Think

of Socrates. It is true of socrates that he is coloured qua _r white, and it is false of him that he is coloured qua _r man; but this obviously does not entail that Socrates qua _r man is not coloured—if it did, socrates would be (absurdly) both coloured and not coloured.

…

speculative analyses are more interesting. What were the following letters

_{from Aquinas? Just as in the human and corporeal matters those things which it can be called into doubt whether they belong to a whole or a part, we don’t ascribe to the whole simply or without determination if they inhere in a part: for we don’t say that an Ethiopian is white, but that he is white according to his teeth.}

Aquinas’s part here is that the predicate ‘white’ is not true in the whole Ethiopian but only in his teeth. Using’qua sa’to pick _out this sense of’qua ‘, Aquinas thus accepts the following definition of ‘qua sa : (A) x qua sa y _is F

= y is _a piece of x and y is_y__f].

The appearance _of the verse ‘Qua’ is, therefore, a sign of parenchys. What is the main purpose of sub-heading a topic name?

The terms qua _r and qua _sa that Cross uses (above) in his analysis of the formal logic of Aquinas and Duns Scotus are thus special subcategories of the more general reduplicative sense of qua (as “in virtue of”) that he ascribes to Scotus near the outset of the extract.

Offeredly one way in which qua continues to be used today is by modern scholars in connection with analyses and discussions of the logic of medieval philosophers.

Early stages of ‘the next big thing,’

if you look up google books, the earliest instance of the character string “the next big thing” is “the next big thing,” and uses next as a’minor’ modifier. For the last war between the Atlantic trunk lines for the trade

for and from common points in the West, could the Atlantic coast be claimed as the last frontier. The Atlantic Territory is a ten-day battle. The two ports in the West were destroyed, and the Atlantic coast was occupied. The New York Tribune says Vanderbilt won the belt, and makes the Commodore’s performance in the premises the next “big thing” to his two hundred per cent. dividend on New York Central capital shares.

Where, here, the expression seems to mean nothing more than “the second-most important holding. ” The meaning of the phrase, at this stage bears little relation to the modern idiomatic sense described in user159691’s question.

Somewhat closer to the modern meaning is an advertisement for W.W. Pierce & Co. in the Erie Observer (1869) for several farm implements—a plow, a grain drill, and a seed sower. This was shot from 1870? How could the Eagle Penalty Plow add a big hole to the Mohawk Valley Clipper Plow?

If not, which hole should make its way to the Elite Grave Mill?

Where does McDonald’s bread soda go into the next big thing?

What is generating great interest all over the country, and is destined to rapidly become the most popular article of its class.

Does the wording “the next big thing” as used here simply mean “the next popular favorite in our lineup”? By

1870, “the next big thing” has taken another step forward and begins appearing in the sense of “the next big planned event”. ” From ” Seegers’ Ice,” in the Newberry Herald (September 7, 1870): The

chunks of ice for the Herald came through Messrs. Smiyh & Christian, of this place, who keep champagne on ice and sudorifics, generally, and who, at this occasion, in their usual gallant style, sent us a bottle of Heidsic, which, with the assistance of the devil, we duly drank to the success of the granite walk. They take the same stuff now to the tapis of Newberry.

The idiom “on tapis” means “on the table,” “under consideration,” or (by extension) “in the offing. As noted in the answer to an old question about the origin of “on tap,” the idiom “on tapis” means “on the table” (English) According

to an untitled item in the Terre Haute Evening Gazette (December 28, 1875): The4

New Year’s Ball will be a big affair.

The ball of the new lodge O. A. U. M., on Friday night, is the next big thing on the boards.

This instances, where “the next big thing” is roughly equivalent to “the next big event,” appear in multiple places in the late 1870s: in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (December 7, 1876) in connection with a political intrigue; in Cairo, Illinois (May 5, 1877), a “baby exposition”; in Newberry, South Carolina again (March 20, 1878), Easter; in Brenham, Texas (September 19, 1878), a “Pomological exhibition”; Hillsborough, Ohio They are (i.e., they take us a considerable distance) toward the modern meaning, “the newest fad or breakthrough or popular success” and they continue unabated over the next several decades. They are significant, they have no commercial value, and are merely a form of encouragement for the betterment of their users and their consumers.

What examples suggest that movement in that direction appears in a letter by W.P. Howle, M.D., to the editor of Journal of the American Medical Association April 28, 1894; In a

friendly chat with one of my medical friends, recently, I asked him why he didn’t take the Journal of the American Medical Association. “It is too full of big things. It is too full of small things. “u00bb. What is the truth behind ” There is some truth in this assertion. “? The Journal is often full of big things ; my friend claims that the so-called expert and the specialist are allowed too much space in which to air themselves; that it requires too much effort on the part of the country doctor not to digest the ” big things. ” He says the country doctor’s time is better spent in reading a few practical truths than in trying to analyze a lengthy article on “Electro-anesthesia and Frequency of Induction Vibration;” “The Esoteric Beauty of One Hundred and Forty-One Histories and Laparotomies for that Disease Under Personal Observation. To the specialist these big things are really big, but to the average country practitioner they are too very utterly too. …

The next ‘big thing’ I call attention, is the nostrum vendor. For free what does this daredevil worry me about? I will treat any doctor in the US to a pen hat who will show me how to stop this fellow from writing me. ”

The next big thing should be a product of society’s insatiable desire for novelty, while other large things have the same characteristics as small things. “Big thing” must be used as a verb “big thing” in the somewhat sarcastic way that a person might use “big hoopla” or “big to-do,” with the implication that some people say “the next big thing” is a product of popular gullibility and the public’s insatiable desire for novelty.

The earliest thoroughly modern ‘next big thing’

The earliest occurrence I’ve found of “the next big thing” in what looks to me to be its thoroughly modern sense of “the new rage in a particular field” is from 1910, describing a cartoon by Rube Goldberg from The San Francisco Call (November 22, 1910): Aeroboxing the next big thing,

versus Aeroboxing the next big thing.

The cartoon depicts champion boxer Jack Johnson soaring through the air in boxing gear strapped to an airplane-like conveyance. Would the fighter plane ever be used in the fighting game “Jack Johnson said he would kill the fighter plane!” “A second very early instance of “the next big thing” in the relevant sense is from another Rube Goldberg cartoon —this one from the San Francisco Call (September 20, 1912): Automattic

Life Is the Next Big Thing.

The cartoon anticipates automated shoe stores, hat stores, restaurants, barber shops, hospitals etc.

Google Books and Elephind searched turned up several other instances of 1912 and very early 1913. It would be interesting if there was an active, relevant, and definitive case for this. From ” What Credit Means to the Farmer,” an article on cooperative rural credit associations, in the Abilene Reporter (January 10, 1912): This

is the next big thing the commercial organizations of the United States are going to tackle—and accomplish. Why shouldn’t the organization in your town be among the first to try out? What’s the point of letting other towns get ahead of you?

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin, serialized in the Molong Express (October 19, 1912): “That

is quite true, Mr. Sabin said. Neither a man nor a woman escaped. I admit that there are difficulties, but it seems to me that you have overlooked the crux of the whole matter.” What could I offer you and I will surely live on for the rest of your days without ever visiting the UK or the USA. You know very well that you can step off this ship arm in arm with me when we reach Boston, even though your man-of-war be alongside the dock. For a moment they can not touch you—they could see and kiss you. You could leave your occupation once and for all, and they could not touch you and your car. If America desired to be where we live, would it be to live there? Is Europa the next big thing? Can we have a better time accepting my terms? Why

is life so one thing after another, and so common in the socialist literature that influenced us?

“one big thing follows another in quick succession, each one bigger and closer on the heels of the preceding one.” We are not able to rest up from one season of activity till we are fairly plunged into the midst of another.

First it’s the city, then the state campaign. I hate that this first big thing happened before the dawn of the 2016 presidential election and afterward I will never catch it. As long as I haven’t seen it, it could not be possible for even a forty wink.

What will the Lyceum be doing next? Is it already ushered in? As such, as nearly as may be judged, the Lyceum Department has done every thing possible in the way of preparation.

Selon untitled item in the Rock Island Argus (January 22, 1913): The

next big thing in England would be the dethroning of lords.

There are also examples of in which “the next big thing” describes a wave of popular enthusiasm for a real or imagined innovation or money-making scheme, rather than excitement about a discrete scheduled event, including buying property along anticipated main transportation lines near Los Angeles (March 15, 1913), tree crops (November 29, 1913), chemotherapy (December 1914), an expanding copper company (February 16, 1917), funding research to improve U.S. aircraft (July 20, 1919), the Catherine mine (August 9, 1919), automobiles made of cotton (

In the 1970s pop and beyond The rise of “the

next big thing” was in connection with the music industry, when in the early 1970s record companies and the music press were on alert for “the next Dylan,” “the next Beatles” etc. Our own memory of the rise of “the next big thing” was in connection with the music industry. When found, and ultimately settled on the more generically appealing “the Next Big Thing”—sometimes rendered in initial caps—for a band, a singer, or an emerging musical genre. In the eyes of Sam Sutherland, “Next Big Thing Fever, part 1 of the IF Magazine, Volume 219 (1979) : American popular music is as