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July 10, 2005
Me and Ü and Everyone We Know Loves/Hates This Film
I was all set to rave about Me and You and Everyone We Know, a film that made me feel about as warm and fuzzy as L'Auberge Espagnole [on the To Do List: see the sequel]. Then I read Matthew's review at Fluxblog, which got my panties in a bunch. And then there are all the comments posted in response to aforementioned review, many of which renewed my faith that there are still people out there who value sweetness and aren't just ironically removed from everything.
The new word of the day, which I believe is inappropriately used to describe Miranda July's lovely film, is Twee:
It means excessively or affectedly quaint, sentimental or mawkish, sometimes coupled with words like nauseatingly. It’s a strongly negative word, and a very useful one, that is in common British use. It appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century to mean something dainty or sweet, a girly and gushing word. It appears to have developed from tweet, not the noise a bird makes, but a childish attempt at saying sweet. It might have been helped along by a feeling that it could be a blend of tiny and wee (Scots for small), though it isn’t.
My recommendation is to Go See The Film (trailer here), and then you too can add your two bits to the blogosphere. Twee? It's in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by Elizabeth at July 10, 2005 09:14 AM