HAH! Someone else has used the term "Sea Change"

[cynthialstern]

I recall that there was a bit of confusion when the Daily Journal used the term "Sea Change" in an article/editorial a while back. (Did it have something to do with Emerald Hills? My memory is a tad foggy on the subject.)

Although I consider myself to be reasonably well-read, like many Daily Journal readers, I hadn't previously read or heard that phrase. But, unlike some of them, I didn't assume that it was a spelling error.

Salon.Com has used the term in one of their articles this week. Maybe it's not as obscure a phrase as I'd assumed?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/28/sea_change/

[Roscoe_Beedle]

Ha! "Tad Foggy" could also be a term to search out here.

I worked in the State Dept for many years. Was stationed overseas part of that time doing local intelligence work. I have this very thick lower Chicago accent laced with colorful metaphors. Used to throw people off, this guy in a suit who talks like a gangster. Attending these very formal State Dinners I met some of the glitter-laced diplomatic corp from other Conutries. One night I regalled a couple wives of diplomats about the old neighborhood. Told them how a few guys got "pipe-wrenched" as an attitude adjustment. One of the wives not following the line of reasoning here asked "if a plumber was necessary for these gentlemen?" The table on our side exploded in laughter. Poor dear had no clue. Of course I was reprimanded not to use those terms so freely.

Sea-change is a good one. Kind of peaceful, placid. Need to incorporate that one into the volcabulary.

[Roger Slocum]

It is time for a cool change.

[cynthialstern]

"Pipe wrenched," huh? Is that something like being "hit with a clue-by-four"? ;D

[jerry]

Just for kicks, I googled "sea change," and got the following:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22sea+change%22&btnG=Google+Search



I recall that there was a bit of confusion when the Daily Journal used the term "Sea Change" in an article/editorial a while back. (Did it have something to do with Emerald Hills? My memory is a tad foggy on the subject.)

Although I consider myself to be reasonably well-read, like many Daily Journal readers, I hadn't previously read or heard that phrase. But, unlike some of them, I didn't assume that it was a spelling error.

Salon.Com has used the term in one of their articles this week. Maybe it's not as obscure a phrase as I'd assumed?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/28/sea_change/

[John]

The sea is very responsive to longer term weather patterns hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. A change in the "feel" of the sea, based on underlying swell, is advanced warning of a distant change in the weather, likely to affect the observer over the course of the next few days.

Ancient mariners were then, as people like deep-sea fishermen are today, very aware of the pattern of the sea, and this is where the term originates.