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Proofing Heavenletter 4569
Posted May 28th, 2013 by pinksandgirl
Dearest Gloria,
In Heavenletter 4569, The Grace by Which You Are to Rule Your World. 2nd paragraph, 4th sentence:
http://www.heavenletters.org/the-grace-by-which-you-are-to-rule-your-wor...
"Caught up in time, urgency fuels you. You lead your life by the setting of a clock. Time does alarm you. It gets you all het up. Time is a galley master and tells you when to row and at what pace. Time runs out."/span>
Should the phrase "het up" be " hepped up"? This is tomorrow's 5/29/13 Heavenletter. Thank you.
Nancy
Dear Nancy, Good to see that
Dear Nancy,
Good to see that you proof them one more time. I wondered wether I missed something, but when I went to the free on-line dictionary I found this explanation:
1. het - made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"
heated, heated up, het up
hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"
So I guess het up is meant as heated up and that is how I translated it,
The definition of hepped up which I found is:
*hepped (up)
Sl. to be intoxicated. (*Typically: be ~ get ∼.) Wally is a little too hepped up to drive home. Harry's too hepped to stand up.
and I would be surprised that this word would be the correct one.
Love to you,
Luus
Dear Luus, The phrase
Dear Luus,
The phrase "hepped up" is a common expression which can mean enthusiastic or excited. I guess we'll wait for Gloria's interpretation. Love to you Luus.
Thank both of you dear
Thank both of you dear ladies for taking care of Heavenletters. Grateful to you.
The expression "het up" is familiar to me. I wonder if "hepped up" might be more of a southern expression?
Here's what I found, dear PinksandGirls:
Het up
Meaning Agitated.
Origin
Het is a shortened form of heated and has been used that way since the 14th century. That simple sense of het up as heated up is first recorded in the US newspaper The Freeborn County Standard, July 1884:
"Set it right down here by the fire Susan, so it'll get het up before you knead it into loaves."
The first record I [the person who posted this] can find of someone using het up to mean agitated is in a work by the American physician S. W. Mitchell in 1886:
"I don't het up easy."
I understood the meaning to be "heated," but I didn't have any idea that it the expression was a derivative of the word heated itself!
Language is so interesting, how it grows and changes.