Obligatory âlore dumpâ on the word lollapalooza:
That word was a common term in the 1930s/40s American lingo that meant⌠essentially a very raucous, lively party.
Note/Rant on the meaning of this term
The current merriam webster and dictionary.com definitions of this term meaning âan outstanding or exceptional or extreme thingâ are wrong, they are too broad. While historical usage varied, it almost always appeared as a noun describing a gathering of many people, one that was so lively or spectacular that you would be exhausted after attending it. When it did not appear as a noun describing a lively party, it appeared as a term for some kind of action that would cause you to be bamboozled, discombobulated⌠similar to âthat was a real humdinger of a blahblahâ or âthat blahblah was a real doozyâ
So⌠in WW2, in the Pacific theatre⌠many US Marines were often engaged in brutal, jungle combat, and they adopted a system of basically verbal identification challenge checks if they noticed someone creeping up on their foxholes at night.
An example of this system used in the European theatre, I believe by the 101st and 82nd airborne, was the challenge âThunder!â to which the correct response was âFlash!â.
In the Pacific theatre⌠the Marines adopted a challenge / response system⌠where the correct response was âLolapaloozaââŚ
Because native born Japanese speakers are taught a phoneme that is roughly in between and ârâ and an âlâ ⌠and they very often struggle to say âLolapaloozaâ without a very noticable accent, unless theyâve also spent a good deal of time learning spoken English (or some other language with distinct âlâ and ârâ phonemes), which very few Japanese did in the 1940s.
::: racist and nsfw historical example of this
www.ep.tc/howtospotajap/howto06.html
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Now, some people will say this is a total myth, others will say it is not.
My Grandpa who served in the Pacific Theatre during WW2 told me it did happen, though he was Navy and not a Marine⌠but the stories about this Iâve always heard that say it did happen, they all say it happened with the Marines.
My Grandpa is also another source for what âlolapaloozaâ actually means.
Mwa@thelemmy.club â¨11⊠â¨months⊠ago
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