A little language help needed
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Topic: A little language help needed
Posted By: Beau Heem
Subject: A little language help needed
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 08:10
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Hey you all! Please help me out... I have a small, but rather irritating problem. What on earth can be meant with a term 'pylon guard' ? The context where I have encountered the term isn't much help, because I only have a sentence or two of it. "Mum and Dad said they couldn't understand such vandalism, what sort of person would want to destroy a pylon guard, it was mindless wanton destruction by some idiot taking revenge on society" I know where this quote originates (Barbara Vine, Grasshopper, p.48) but I can't get my hands on the book down in order to understand the context. I mean I know what can be meant with a pylon, and I surely understand guard... But the only reference to pylon guard on the net seems to be http://www.polosbastards.com/wariniraq051004.htm - this I also fail to see the connection between mum and dad not understanding vandalism and ancient Egypt... Cheers and thank you -Beau ------------- --No enemy but time-- |
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 10:51
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I'm fairly literate, and I'm stumped...I don't know if it's something that guards pylons, or a pylon used as a guard. From the context it definitely seems to be an inanimate object, so forget about the guy wearing the turban. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Andhi
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 10:57
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The phrase makes me think of the barbed wire that they wrap around
electricity pylons a couple of metres off the ground to stop people
from climbing up them.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 13:20
| That's all I can think of too. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 23:06
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hey, i read the article and they say it is a human guard who protects the transmission lines from vandalism; indeed some electricity pylons have been collapsed by vandals. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Beau Heem
Date Posted: May 01 2005 at 04:33
I thought about that as well, but in the context it seems, if not inappropriate, at least odd, because the obvious reason for destroying barbed wire that is wrapped around a pylon to prevent people from climbing is that the given destroyer wants to climb the pylon. On second (3rd, 4th...) thought, I suppose that 'Mum and Dad' wouldn't understand the potential climbing either... When I first looked at the sentence at hand, I instantly pictured pylon guard to be a huge garden gnome or something...  And I cannot seem to get the picture out of my head... Thanks for your help... -Beau ------------- --No enemy but time-- |
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Date Posted: May 01 2005 at 05:05
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