LOL= Laughing Out Loud
IMHO= (I think) In My Humble Opinion
BTW= By The Way
Those are the only ones I know. I always get confused with these too. All this came about, I believe, with all the text messaging nonsense. I find it just as easy, and much less confusing for us poor, text ignorant saps, to just type it out.
Diddly is a term (sometimes derogatory) for Irish Traditional music. Sometimes "diddly dee" (or "diddly sh*te").
I think the term comes from lilting. People often lilt tunes to learn them, and lilting often adds in different words or syllables to mark different ornamentation. (So instead of singing "la la la, la la la", you sing "hum diddly eet da diddle")
p*ssed has an asterisk in place of the letter i, and generally either means mad, or drunk, depending on the usage...
bh1; diddly-squat is self evident. The term is sometimes used in the perjorative . . . but not always. Is Mr. Hall's succinct reference all one needs to know?
Thanks Reverend; we cross-posted (I think I know that one).
The have recently seen diddly session. It was mainly negative though someone gave them some value. One way or the other I still do not know how they differ from non-diddly sessions.
Good sessions vs. bad sessions? ? ?
Marty; I like that 'laughing out loud' I thought it might be 'lots of luck'
ROFLMAO - Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ITM - Irish Traditional Music (also seen by some as a perjorative term of reference)
FWIW - For what it's worth
YMMV - Your mileage may vary
and a few that're specific to this site: *splorf* - I just spit coffee/tea/Guinness all over my screen and keyboard because you made me laugh out loud
*snort* - Zina's un-euphemism for an abrupt, short laugh.
*smirk* - doubtful, but still retaining a sense of humor
Mr. Gill rocked the boat back in the day by persisting in calling this music "diddly" long after people chided him for denigrating The Music. You'd have thought he was spouting racial epithets at a protest rally the way some folks reacted. That said, some people do use "diddly" in a demeaning way, so handle it with care should you decide to wield it at all.
I am a guitarist, and agree with the harmonically simple position. In most cases, it is modal rather than classical harmony, but within that structure, it is fairly straightforward. In fact, I would argue that too many guitarists muck up this music with all sorts of overly complicated chords, and too many chords per tune at that!
Off-topic - what type of chords & or melody does someone like John Doyle play in a session? We are talking way off the diddley path. Oh ByTheWay ~ Google 'Diddley'
Mr. Doyle plays diddley chords, of course. I recall him breaking a string once as the crowd was heading into the Earl's Chair, and another (fledgling) guitarist stepped right in, playing the same chords Doyle taught in his video tutorial. Nothing fancy.
Yes SWFL & we all wish him good health.
Cheshire you bring us full circle ~ back to the question.
This audacity!
My heart, my beating heart!
This unwarrantable presumption on the part of a common sailor!
There is something to this diddley thing. Or another way ~ less is more.
" Bumping" is for message boards where a new post in a thread "bumps" it up t the top of the page (unlike this board).
So if someone wanted to bring an older thread back out but didn't have anything new to say n the subject (for instance a for sale thread, or one abut an event), he/she might simply post "bump" or "bumping."
The text abbreviations seem endless. I found;
FWIW - For What It's Worth
CCR - Chocolate Covered Raisins/Credence Clearwater Revival
Still wondering where diddly/diddley came from.
The connection with lilting seems the best explanation. This at least is a musical reference. These things have all kinds of plot twist. . . ambiguities . . . so I searched around. (Lot of free time today).
From ~ diddle ~ I got the nursery rhyme link above. Which only adds to the mystery.
Another search revealed dildo as used in a 16th c. poem about finding delight. Perhaps this evolved to diddle & so on . . . or not!
Not suprisingly "Diddle" is one of the 'Basic Building Blocks of Drumming' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle
IMNSHO - In my not-so-humble opinion ( as the late Peter Bellamy used to say ).
Don't forget the paradiddles, Tonya, though I think you're being disingineous re the 16thc poem.
Oh, and SO - Significant Other
IAS -Instrument Acquisition Syndrome ( I don't see why my SO should complain about my IAS, you should see the sheath of whistles she carries about ).
I was expecting an attack on this point, , Mr Hall, however to answer that question; " he would purse his wet rubbery lips, rest his tongue on the bottom and blow what could only be described and as a very slow oscillating 3 note rasberry in the direction of the nearest fiddle player."
I had a rhyming slang epiphany whilst walking in the woods the other day, when it suddenly occurred to me that 'raspberry' is short for 'raspberry tart'.
Pete, you an find anything on the net. My search lead me to a possible corruption of terms (diletto, delight, diddle, dildo . . .)
From that you can link to the poem 'Choice of a Valentine' attributed to the English writer Thomas Nash. It is quite diddilating. I do not make this up PG. It is right there at the tips of your diddley digits.
Diddly?
Diddly?
What is diddly? Also some help w/blog terms;
lol, IMHO, p*ssed, bumping . . .
Thanks in advance.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
LOL= Laughing Out Loud
IMHO= (I think) In My Humble Opinion
BTW= By The Way
Those are the only ones I know. I always get confused with these too. All this came about, I believe, with all the text messaging nonsense. I find it just as easy, and much less confusing for us poor, text ignorant saps, to just type it out.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by MartySmith
Re: Diddly?
Squat
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by benhall.1
Re: Diddly?
Diddly is a term (sometimes derogatory) for Irish Traditional music. Sometimes "diddly dee" (or "diddly sh*te").
I think the term comes from lilting. People often lilt tunes to learn them, and lilting often adds in different words or syllables to mark different ornamentation. (So instead of singing "la la la, la la la", you sing "hum diddly eet da diddle")
p*ssed has an asterisk in place of the letter i, and generally either means mad, or drunk, depending on the usage...
Pete
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Diddly?
bh1; diddly-squat is self evident. The term is sometimes used in the perjorative . . . but not always. Is Mr. Hall's succinct reference all one needs to know?
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
Thanks Reverend; we cross-posted (I think I know that one).
The have recently seen diddly session. It was mainly negative though someone gave them some value. One way or the other I still do not know how they differ from non-diddly sessions.
Good sessions vs. bad sessions? ? ?
Marty; I like that 'laughing out loud' I thought it might be 'lots of luck'
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
You will also see variations of LOL, like LMAO (laughing my *ss off), ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing), or the combination, ROFLMAO...
You might want to check out one of the sites that talks about IRC/FORUM/TXT abbreviations, because a lot of them crop up here (like WTF and OMG, etc)
http://andrewbusey.com/game-glossary-acronyms/
Pete
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Diddly?
ROFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO - Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ITM - Irish Traditional Music (also seen by some as a perjorative term of reference)
FWIW - For what it's worth
YMMV - Your mileage may vary
and a few that're specific to this site: *splorf* - I just spit coffee/tea/Guinness all over my screen and keyboard because you made me laugh out loud
*snort* - Zina's un-euphemism for an abrupt, short laugh.
*smirk* - doubtful, but still retaining a sense of humor
Mr. Gill rocked the boat back in the day by persisting in calling this music "diddly" long after people chided him for denigrating The Music. You'd have thought he was spouting racial epithets at a protest rally the way some folks reacted. That said, some people do use "diddly" in a demeaning way, so handle it with care should you decide to wield it at all.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Will CPT
Re: Diddly?
Slow down please ~ it's only the www.splorf
Just Googled this from someones' WIKI
diddly-diddly music
* childish (see David Grisman's "Not for Children Only")
* melodically complex, yet harmonically simple
* I find swinging rhythms irresistible
*snort*smirk*
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
Oooooo..."melodically complex, harmonically simple." I LIKE that. No doubt guitarists will disagree.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Will CPT
Re: Diddly?
It's worth remembering also:
that diddly miscic is Scottishh Jigs and reels ect.
And diddley music is Irish jigs and reels etc.
(As in whisky and whiskey. Someone cleverer than I spotted that one)
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Diddly?
I am a guitarist, and agree with the harmonically simple position. In most cases, it is modal rather than classical harmony, but within that structure, it is fairly straightforward. In fact, I would argue that too many guitarists muck up this music with all sorts of overly complicated chords, and too many chords per tune at that!
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: Diddly?
Off-topic - what type of chords & or melody does someone like John Doyle play in a session? We are talking way off the diddley path. Oh ByTheWay ~ Google 'Diddley'
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
Mr. Doyle plays diddley chords, of course. I recall him breaking a string once as the crowd was heading into the Earl's Chair, and another (fledgling) guitarist stepped right in, playing the same chords Doyle taught in his video tutorial. Nothing fancy.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Will CPT
Re: Diddly?
Bo Diddley, Tonya? That's what I got on Google.
Whiskey is to diddley as whisky is to diddly, I'll remember that.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Diddly?
Yes SWFL & we all wish him good health.
Cheshire you bring us full circle ~ back to the question.
This audacity!
My heart, my beating heart!
This unwarrantable presumption on the part of a common sailor!
There is something to this diddley thing. Or another way ~ less is more.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
" Bumping" is for message boards where a new post in a thread "bumps" it up t the top of the page (unlike this board).
So if someone wanted to bring an older thread back out but didn't have anything new to say n the subject (for instance a for sale thread, or one abut an event), he/she might simply post "bump" or "bumping."
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by seisflutes
Re: Diddly?
Much like "Paddy" has been taken back and owned now, instead of its' original use as an epithet, I feel the same has been done for "diddley".
"It's just some wee diddley music anyway."
"It is, and we love it so."
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Diddly?
DIDDLY = Dusty, Irrespective of Dusting Done Last Year
ITM = Irritatingly Tuneful Melodies
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by granama
Re: Diddly?
I pwn u all.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by wormdiet
Re: Diddly?
For further discussion, please see:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6427755515&topic=2843
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by qallunait
Re: Diddly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Diddle_Diddle
The text abbreviations seem endless. I found;
FWIW - For What It's Worth
CCR - Chocolate Covered Raisins/Credence Clearwater Revival
Still wondering where diddly/diddley came from.
The connection with lilting seems the best explanation. This at least is a musical reference. These things have all kinds of plot twist. . . ambiguities . . . so I searched around. (Lot of free time today).
From ~ diddle ~ I got the nursery rhyme link above. Which only adds to the mystery.
Another search revealed dildo as used in a 16th c. poem about finding delight. Perhaps this evolved to diddle & so on . . . or not!
Not suprisingly "Diddle" is one of the 'Basic Building Blocks of Drumming'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Tonya
Re: Diddly?
IMNSHO - In my not-so-humble opinion ( as the late Peter Bellamy used to say ).
Don't forget the paradiddles, Tonya, though I think you're being disingineous re the 16thc poem.
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Diddly?
Oh, and SO - Significant Other
IAS -Instrument Acquisition Syndrome ( I don't see why my SO should complain about my IAS, you should see the sheath of whistles she carries about ).
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Diddly?
^ Which probably cost less in total than a single fiddle bow.
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by wormdiet
Re: Diddly?
It is an Ancient Term. It was the only possible way Homo Erectus could vocally articulate a triplet. (if there wasn't a banjo handy.)
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Diddly?
And what other way could he vocally articulate a triplet if there *was* a banjo handy?
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by benhall.1
Re: Diddly?
I was expecting an attack on this point, , Mr Hall, however to answer that question; " he would purse his wet rubbery lips, rest his tongue on the bottom and blow what could only be described and as a very slow oscillating 3 note rasberry in the direction of the nearest fiddle player."
anthropologically yours, chuneboi.
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Diddly?
I had a rhyming slang epiphany whilst walking in the woods the other day, when it suddenly occurred to me that 'raspberry' is short for 'raspberry tart'.
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by granama
Re: Diddly?
Gosh, what an amazing epiphany, NCRC! And as for chuneboi ...
I raspberry in your general direction!
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by benhall.1
Re: Diddly?
Pete, you an find anything on the net. My search lead me to a possible corruption of terms (diletto, delight, diddle, dildo . . .)
From that you can link to the poem 'Choice of a Valentine' attributed to the English writer Thomas Nash. It is quite diddilating. I do not make this up PG. It is right there at the tips of your diddley digits.
# Posted on September 8th 2007 by Tonya