Sage, I appreciate you injecting colorful adjectives into this discussion, but I feel I must give you a yellow card because it appears you are using 'swarthy' to mean 'weathered, rough, malicious and/or evil" which is a non standard use of this word.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swarthy
I don't like to be part of the dictionary police,…
Sage, I appreciate you injecting colorful adjectives into this discussion, but I feel I must give you a yellow card because it appears you are using 'swarthy' to mean 'weathered, rough, malicious and/or evil" which is a non standard use of this word.
I often do stuff like this, default to a connotation of a word, rather than the denotation.
I looked up some of the ways that "swarthy" is used just now.
"We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom."
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It occurs to me that there is an element of (not so) subtle racism at work here, the implication that a "dark, or swarthy" person is somewhat menacing or sinister.
Thank you, I love words and language so much, and you must never apologize for discussing or questioning me on that level!
Sage, I appreciate you injecting colorful adjectives into this discussion, but I feel I must give you a yellow card because it appears you are using 'swarthy' to mean 'weathered, rough, malicious and/or evil" which is a non standard use of this word.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swarthy
I don't like to be part of the dictionary police, but I feel compelled at times due to my mom being an English teacher. ;)
Shoot. You're right.
I often do stuff like this, default to a connotation of a word, rather than the denotation.
I looked up some of the ways that "swarthy" is used just now.
"We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom."
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It occurs to me that there is an element of (not so) subtle racism at work here, the implication that a "dark, or swarthy" person is somewhat menacing or sinister.
Thank you, I love words and language so much, and you must never apologize for discussing or questioning me on that level!