[AT] old expressions

[Indiana Robinson]

On 2 Aug 2006 at 11:03, captneb wrote:

> My friend Jan Brunvand came up with the misnomer urban legend and I have
> chewed on him about it ever since.  They are obviously as rural as they are
> urban; he lives in a city (Salt Lake), heard them there, and simply presumed
> that they were more urban than rural.  A more accurate term would indeed be
> "modern legend," but arguing with language is rarely a productive activity.
> Thing is, old legends were meant to provide explanations in a world where
> there were so few answers and so many questions; modern legends give us
> mystery and surprise where there is far too little of that.
> 
> Roger Welsch (who was a folklore researcher and professor before he became a
> MTD....Master Tractor Dabbler)




	Roger, maybe since most of this stuff now comes from the internet
instead of "modern" legend we should call one a "modem" legend...
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