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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

quaquaquaqua

English answer:

see down

Added to glossary by Constantinos Faridis (X)
Dec 26, 2009 07:01
14 yrs ago
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English term

quaquaquaqua

English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting language
Here the word very confused me in the sentence like this:"Given the existence of a personal God," he says," with a white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia loves us deeply quaquaquaqua with some exceptions."

What is the" quaquaquaqua"mean?

Thank you!
Responses
4 +4 see down
3 +4 from "qua" -- Beckett's mocking of academic discourse
5 +1 sound of laughter - Laughing out loud
Change log

Dec 31, 2009 06:40: Constantinos Faridis (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

airmailrpl Dec 31, 2009:
I don't understand the glossary entry The asker's query was "What does quaquaquaqua mean?"

By the glossary entry we now are told that "quaquaquaqua" means "see down" or "see below."
Jim Tucker (X) Dec 31, 2009:
Constantinos means... ..."see below."
Annett Kottek (X) Dec 31, 2009:
Glossary entry Help! I don't understand the glossary entry: 'see down' for 'quaquaquaqua' does not make any sense!
Jim Tucker (X) Dec 26, 2009:
did not mean to imply that it was ...merely that quaquaqua is an indication of the hackneyed or somehow unsatisfactory nature of the statements that surround it.
Annett Kottek (X) Dec 26, 2009:
@ airmailrpl I absolutely agree, it's definitely not 'blah blah blah blah'. Some readers/members of the audience will nevertheless be reminded of someone saying 'blah blah blah blah' when they read/hear 'quaquaquaqua'. Of course I can only speculate if Beckett was aware of the association, or indeed if he knew the colloquialism. The OED's earliest entry for 'blah' is from 1918 ('bla bla bla' 1924, 'blah-blah' 1931, and 'bla-blahing' 1945); it's originally from the US, but George Orwell used it in his diary in 1942.

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+4
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see down

Today’s decoy, Waiting Thieves (quaquaquaqua), is re-written from words in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting For Godot. Vocals are by Carol A. She’s a social worker by day, and brings a downswing to the lines, as though the words are empathised out. The collaboration was great fun. The next piece might also be from words from the same play.
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack Doughty : Yes. From Luck's monologue. See http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/rg/poems-rg8.html
23 mins
thanks
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
3 hrs
gracias
agree John Detre
8 hrs
thanks
agree eski
2 days 9 hrs
thank you
neutral airmailrpl : What does the" quaquaquaqua"mean?
5 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you for help!"
+4
1 hr

from "qua" -- Beckett's mocking of academic discourse

"qua" originally = "as"; "in the capacity of" (Lat.). Beckett uses this several times in Waiting for Godot.

It's the academic equivalent of "blablabla"

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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-12-26 16:53:30 GMT)
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Geertz sees this as an expression of Beckett's sense of the aporia, the dead-endedness, of such thinking. Unfortunately I can't recall the essay.
Peer comment(s):
agree Annett Kottek (X) : Lucky's speech is pretty unintelligible, but I guess 'blah blah blah blah' at this point tells us sth. of his feelings towards such a ‘personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard’. See also: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blah
58 mins
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
2 hrs
agree John Detre
8 hrs
agree eski : Also valid :)) eski
2 days 8 hrs
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+1
5 hrs

sound of laughter - Laughing out loud

quaquaquaqua => "qua qua qua qua" =>
is the representation of the sound of laughter -> now on the internet it has become LOL (Laughing out loud)

The author is mocking the statements.

Excerpt - Samuel Beckett
LUCKY: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside ...
www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?...

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Note added at 13 hrs (2009-12-26 20:07:59 GMT)
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linda fite (laflines) on Twitter
Overwhelmed! Qua qua qua qua! Went to see "Hangover" and laughed myself silly. ... 8:09 PM May 3rd from web; Missed Comic Book Day, dammit. ...
www.twitter.com/laflines -

Thus, here I am with my prepoo on my head covered by a shower cap and a big ol winter hat (so nobody'll see my cap) runnin' all over town trying to replenish my products. All the while, my DH's words are ringing in my ears, "We're gonna have to drastically cut back on our expenses this year...qua, qua, qua, qua, qua, qua..."
http://rauneygal.blogspot.com/2009/03/elasta-qp-creme-condit...

Brazzil - Brazil 24/7 :: View topic - Grajau, Sao Paulo - anyone ...
qua qua qua qua Laughing Aww you're all mean. But you're all right, Grajaú is not ... Maybe I'll come back again one day for Grand Prix lol. ...
www.brazzilbrief.com/viewtopic.php?t=7961426&sid.


The Forum 2000 Ayn Rand SOMAD's definition of Objectivism was "A is A, I am right, you are wrong, qua qua qua qua qua qua qua."
http://www.metafilter.com/52976/What-is-John-Guilt

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The two traditions: the art of storytelling amongst French ... - Google Books Result
by Gerald Thomas - 1993 - Social Science - 373 pages
When they open the door eh, "Qua qua, qua, qua, qua, qua qua qua qua! ... [laughter] Commentary and notes This narration was the last of a fairly long ...
www.books.google.com/books?isbn=1550810553...

Discussing Beckett, Whether It Matters or Not - NYTimes.com
7 Mar 1989 ... ''To Beckett, the highest form of laughter is the laugh that laughs at ... ''Qua Qua Qua Qua: The Babel of Beckett,'' an echo of Lucky's ...
www.nytimes.com/.../discussing-beckett-whether-it-matters-o...

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart - Google Books Result
by Georg Knepler, David Blake - 1997 - Music - 374 pages
... the pigeon coos, The frog follows his paramour And cries: Qua, qua! qua qua! ... its laughter and applause, its displeasure and protest. ...
www.books.google.com/books?isbn=0521588235...

Love Issue
... pace with great agitation...tadyaaa, Qua, Qua, Qua, Qua iyale sishQoneTer, .... She wipes tears of laughter with one end of her neTela and continues: ...
www.seleda.com/feb01/faccetta_nera.shtml

comments
(Donald) Qua qua qua qua qua. Qua qua qua qua QUAAAA! ..... I'd keep repeating that request no matter what they said until I broke down in laughter. ...
www.avclub.com/comments/article/26285/ -

And if you understand Portuguese:

Quá-quá-quá-quá - Desciclopédia
Billie Jean não é meu amor, é só uma garota aí... Quá-quá-quá-quá... não é uma risada. É só uma música de fundo engraçadinha. ...
www.desciclo.pedia.ws/wiki/Quá-quá-quá-quá

ricardocalil.com.br » Blog Arquivo » Todos os filmes do presidente
25 Set 2008 ... Há alguns anos, não vejo coisa tão hilária, qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua. Carlos N Mendes : Comentário de Carlos N Mendes — 25/09/2008 ...
www.ricardocalil.ig.com.br/todos-os-filmes-do-presidente

[humor] Manual de Instrução – Cuidados com o bebê | INOVAVOX ...
QUA QUA QUA QUA QUA QUA!!! Estou rolando no chão de tanto rir!!! rs rs rs rs ... lol. Já tinha visto em algum outro blog. Muito engraçado, hehe. ...
www.inovavox.com/.../humor-manual-de-instrucao-cuidados-com...
Peer comment(s):
neutral Annett Kottek (X) : I don’t think that this is supposed to be laughter. Beckett's stage directions are notoriously meticulous; any laughs are explicitly scripted as such. See http://www.samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html
50 mins
it is definitely NOT blah blah blah blah
neutral Jim Tucker (X) : what is your source for quaquaqua as a representation of laughter? All I see in the sources you cite for "qua qua" are the screeching of frogs and the quacking of ducks. Just because it occurs on the same webpage as the word "laughter" is not evidence.
1 hr
comic books.. cartoons.. sorry I do not feel the need to give "evidence" I have spent too much time on this subject. I am certain that "qua qua qua qua" is used to depict laughter/mockery. Unfortunately you cannot check with Becket because he is dead.
neutral Mirra_ : can you please yeld any reference about quaquaqua used for laughter?R:The most of them don't proof anything.Moreover 2nd explains there is no reasons to laugh;5th, 7th and 9th deal respectively with eagles, frogs and (Donald) Duck cries. :o)
4 hrs
a few above ..I know it has been used to symbolize laughter.. see above - I am moving on -
agree Alexandra Taggart : Not loud, he is CHORTLING and his beard FLATTERS like a throat of a frog singing it's spring song.
4 days
okay
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