butaqiu
23-02-2001, 11:53 PM
ini ada bahan untuk pengetahuan.
dari mailbits.com
hari ini ttg asal usul ballyhoo.
Sebagai pemalas, saya quote aja langsung. Yang nggak ngerti silakan buka kamus :)
Why do we call advertising and political hype, ballyhoo?
(answer below)
Ballyhoo is such a marvelous word and it sounds so
appropriate that one might guess it was made up because it
sounds just like what it is. But that guess would be
entirely wrong, which is the sort of thing that makes word
origins so intriguing.
Imagine that you are off in the village of Ballyhooly in
County Cork, Ireland. Now cover your ears. You see, the
village was famous for its argumentative residents, who would
debate loud and long and with great passion about almost
anything. So famous were they for this cacophony – not to
mention, hot air – that loud arguments and speeches anywhere
were compared to the goings on at Ballyhooly. In time, the
last two letters were dropped, making it a noun. Eventually
it was applied to the high-decibel, low-content communication
style frequently found on Capitol Hill and Madison Avenue.
At its worst, of course, that's really ballyhooey.
Source: WHY YOU SAY IT by Webb Garrison
dari mailbits.com
hari ini ttg asal usul ballyhoo.
Sebagai pemalas, saya quote aja langsung. Yang nggak ngerti silakan buka kamus :)
Why do we call advertising and political hype, ballyhoo?
(answer below)
Ballyhoo is such a marvelous word and it sounds so
appropriate that one might guess it was made up because it
sounds just like what it is. But that guess would be
entirely wrong, which is the sort of thing that makes word
origins so intriguing.
Imagine that you are off in the village of Ballyhooly in
County Cork, Ireland. Now cover your ears. You see, the
village was famous for its argumentative residents, who would
debate loud and long and with great passion about almost
anything. So famous were they for this cacophony – not to
mention, hot air – that loud arguments and speeches anywhere
were compared to the goings on at Ballyhooly. In time, the
last two letters were dropped, making it a noun. Eventually
it was applied to the high-decibel, low-content communication
style frequently found on Capitol Hill and Madison Avenue.
At its worst, of course, that's really ballyhooey.
Source: WHY YOU SAY IT by Webb Garrison