eftychia: Lego-ish figure in blue dress, with beard and breasts, holding sword and electric guitar (lego-blue)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:27pm on 2011-03-29
(I've seen so very many people mistakenly write "Guilded Age" lately, that when someone correctly uses "Gilded Age" as Ms. Marcotte did, that has started to look funny to me. I hate it when a mistake becomes common enough to have that effect. *Grrr*)
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zenlizard: Because the current occupation is fascist. (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 03:18pm on 2011-03-29
Whatever happened to "brazen" (sheathed with bronze), instead of "gilded" (sheathed with gold) ?
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eftychia: Photo of clouds shaped like an eye and arched eyebrow (sky-eye)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:23pm on 2011-03-29
I guess that looking at it from above, it looked gilded, even though folks on the bottom looking up could tell it was brazen, but the folks on top got to spin the PR?

I do like the idea of renaming it the Brazen Age.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 05:56pm on 2011-03-30
I always thought the term "gilded age" was a (pejorative) allusion to the much older expression "golden age". I always thought the implication of "gilded" was "fake", as in "looked like a golden age, but proved not to be if you so much as scratched the surface".
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