Things I Don't Understand: Moody

Friday 1 March 2013

Moody

So my Skype just asked me what my mood was. Ok, it didn't but it gave me the option to write my mood and always being bad at describing my mood, my first thought was to write 'mood', but that didn't make sense... So then I wanted to right 'moody' because that would be funny, 'mood: moody', but then I realised that it wasn't funny. So then I thought, 'Why does moody mean to be in a bad mood?'. Surely to be 'moody' would simply to be in a mood, or 'mood-like' (mood-like? that makes no sense... how can you be like a mood?). Therefore if you are in any mood, which is all the time, unless you are emotionless, as even nonchalance (love that word, just about know what it means) is a state of emotion, then you are 'moody'. Why then is moody presuming that you are in a negative mood? Does that say something about the human condition that the extreme is presumed to be towards the negative? Either way, I don't understand.

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alex colville7 March 2013 at 22:30
I think you could narrow this down even further - rather than the human condition, surely it is just the ENGLISH condition to be negative, seeing as it is (as far as I know) only in the English language that this occurs. Maybe because of all the rain and the lack of an efficient public sector. But hey, english is a weird language anyway. For example only the other day i noticed that 'tear' (as in 'rip') and 'tear' (as in 'boo hoo') are spelt the same, as you can now see. So yeah. Weird.
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