{"id":492,"date":"2006-04-07T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T02:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-05-16T22:25:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:25:56","slug":"shiny-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/04\/07\/shiny-_\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny *_*"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m reading some stuff about Firefly<\/em>, and I come across this lexicon of terms used in the story…<\/p>\n

shiny – Slang. “Good”, “great”, “neat”, “wonderful”, etc.
\n(from here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

At this point I’d like to remind everyone that I was using “shiny” in that manner way before Firefly<\/em> even existed. See second post ever<\/a>, the post after that<\/a>, my birthday post four years ago<\/a>, in reference to some newly-acquired (at that time) Sailormoon merchandise<\/a>, and finally, extolling the virtues of Greymatter again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What can I say? Shiny *_*<\/p>\n

I actually really have trouble remembering when and why I started using that word as a synonym for “cool,” “neat,” “fantabulous,” etc. It’s not really the same as “quite,” which I know I randomly started using. I’m sure that “shiny” has its roots somewhere; I mean, I used it to refer to tangible things, primarily. Perhaps it’s just that there was some shiny object which was interesting, whose properties became associated with everything cool and interesting.<\/p>\n

Does anyone know why the Firefly<\/em> characters use “shiny”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m reading some stuff about Firefly, and I come across this lexicon of terms used in the story… shiny – Slang. “Good”, “great”, “neat”, “wonderful”, etc. (from here) At this point I’d like to remind everyone that I was using “shiny” in that manner way before Firefly even existed. See second post ever, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,18],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-firefly","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}