Graffiti
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| - | <table width="100%" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''graffiti''' ''fku'' '''1.''' To place a new message atop an older message. '''2.''' A territorial marker most often akin to stale urine; piss on walls. | + | <table width="100%" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''graffiti''' ''fku'' '''1.''' A territorial marker most often akin to stale urine; piss on walls. '''2.''' To place a new message atop an older message. '''3.''' Defacing graphics or text, illicitly rendered with an [[eye]] toward maximum visibility. |
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| - | ''Graffiti'' stems from the Latin "graffito", meaning "scratch." It shares etymological roots with "[[grave]]" (from a word meaning ditch, or a scratch in the earth) and "graft" (a means of joining limbs via a cut): death and life from a scratch. | + | ''Graffiti'', Italian for "scratchs," shares etymological roots with "[[grave]]" (a scratch in the earth) and "graft" (joining limbs at a cut): death and life from a scratch. |
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| + | ''[[Second Advance]]'' [[AA]] participant [[Steven Adkins]] lives in [[Toulouse]], where his daughter has a small studio apartment on the Rue Gramat, famous for being covered from street level to first storey with a palimpsest of graffiti. This legal and ever-evolving gallery has become something of a tourist destination, and one can often find an art teacher holding forth as his or her students assiduously take notes. Curiously, given the 1st definition of the word, this narrow street often reeks of urine. | ||
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| graffiti fku 1. A territorial marker most often akin to stale urine; piss on walls. 2. To place a new message atop an older message. 3. Defacing graphics or text, illicitly rendered with an eye toward maximum visibility.
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[edit] DesiderataGraffiti, Italian for "scratchs," shares etymological roots with "grave" (a scratch in the earth) and "graft" (joining limbs at a cut): death and life from a scratch. Second Advance AA participant Steven Adkins lives in Toulouse, where his daughter has a small studio apartment on the Rue Gramat, famous for being covered from street level to first storey with a palimpsest of graffiti. This legal and ever-evolving gallery has become something of a tourist destination, and one can often find an art teacher holding forth as his or her students assiduously take notes. Curiously, given the 1st definition of the word, this narrow street often reeks of urine.
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