behoove

[unappropriate]

i just remembered the first time i ever heard the word "behoove". i don't remember the exact context, except that it was in my 6th grade art class and i was probably fucking around with something i oughtn't, and mrs. shaw told me that "it would behoove you to not do that".

i had never heard the word before, and thus had no idea what she was

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[maps_or_guitars]

Looking up the derivation for the word has got me thinking of other words, like "Bootless," and "Hwaet."

[unappropriate]

i've never heard of "hwaet".

[maps_or_guitars]

First word of Beowulf. Literally means "What" but actually is an attention-getter word, signaling speech to come. Sort of a medieval mic-check-one-two. Seamus Heaney translated it as "So" which I like. Someone else picked "Attend!"

[unappropriate]

ah. ok!

[my_tallest]

So you're saying, Little John, screaming "WHAT?!" at the top of his lungs, repeatedly, to get attention, is in fact him partaking in an ancient literary tradition as old as the language itself?

I may never be able to look at that Chappelle's Show skit the same way again.

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=11924&title=a-moment-in-the-life-of-lil-jon

[maps_or_guitars]

YEAH!!