What is 'funky town'?

[fl]

Hi,

I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
Could you explain it to me?


Thanks,





.......
Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they have no control
over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's happening.

[snide...@gmail.com]

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12:52:27 PM UTC-8, fl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
> Could you explain it to me?

[...]

>
> .......
> Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they have no control
> over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's happening.

Funky is a flexible term. It can refer to a specific type of music,
or to clothing styles associated with fans of that music,
or it can mean "off" or "not right".

The latter seems to apply "funky town". (I think caps should have been used,
"Funky Town", as it seems to be a naming (nominization) rather than
an adjective phrase).

Funky Town would be a place where things don't work quite right.

To be more specific, we'd probably need more context.

/dps

[Bertel Lund Hansen]

snide...@gmail.com skrev:

> Funky is a flexible term. It can refer to a specific type of music,
> or to clothing styles associated with fans of that music,
> or it can mean "off" or "not right".

I haven't met the word in a negative context, but I've mostly met
it in connection with music.

> Funky Town would be a place where things don't work quite right.

Not here:

Et gammelt hit: "Funkytown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF77Y1JLScc

If you don't want to listen to the music (the text is rather
tedious) this line is what I refer to:

Won't you take me to Funkytown?

--
Bertel, Kolt, Denmark

[Richard Yates]

In a fairly recent television program, Parenthood, going to "funky
town" was code for having sex.

[grammar...@gmail.com]

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12:52:27 PM UTC-8, fl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
> Could you explain it to me?
>
>
> Thanks,
>

The phrase "funky town" brings to my mind the title
of the seventies disco song "Funkytown," by Lipps, Inc.,
in which "Funkytown" seems to me to be the fictional
name of a town that is funky: "Gotta make a move to
a town that's right for me / Town to keep me movin',
keep me groovin' with some energy / Well, talk about it . . .
talk about movin' / Won't you take me to Funkytown?" :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyW0AJHKvUk

[Horace LaBadie]

In article <6986d429-c71a-420f...@googlegroups.com>,

Funky can be either good or bad. Something can smell funky, which is
bad. That probably goes back to the early meaning having to do with
smokiness. One can be in a blue funk, or a state of depression.

On the positive side, funky can be hip, groovy, authentic, swinging. One
can get his funk on.

Your example appears to fall into the bad sense, chaotic or messy.

[RH Draney]

On 11/13/2015 2:16 PM, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
> snide...@gmail.com skrev:

>
>> Funky Town would be a place where things don't work quite right.
>
> Not here:
>
> Et gammelt hit: "Funkytown"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF77Y1JLScc
>
> If you don't want to listen to the music (the text is rather
> tedious) this line is what I refer to:
>
> Won't you take me to Funkytown?

If there's any justice in the world, Funkytown should be somewhere near
here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disko_Island

....r

[Janet]

In article <6986d429-c71a-420f...@googlegroups.com>,
rxj...@gmail.com says...

It makes no sense at all to me. I would guess English is not the
writer's first language.

Janet

[snide...@gmail.com]

I'd guess AmE, myself, but I'd probably be woozled by Glaswegian slang
from after 1955 or so. I have heard of "trainspotting",
but am a bit vague about it.

/dps

[Charles Bishop]

In article <hlabadie-917734...@nntp.aioe.org>,

There was a song "Funky Town" by, nope, it won't come. The town there
was presented as the place the singer wanted to be, so presumably it was
a good place.

--
charles

[Steve Hayes]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:52:22 -0800 (PST), fl <rxj...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
>Could you explain it to me?

You seem to have omitted "the following".


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Peter Moylan]

On 2015-Nov-14 07:52, fl wrote:

> I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
> Could you explain it to me?

> .......
> Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they have no control
> over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's happening.

Are you sure it's on line? I tried to put this into a Google search, and
none of the (partial) hits included the word "funky".

The reason I searched is that it's hard to answer the question without
knowing the background. The Google results suggest that it's written by
someone with a mental illness, but it's also important to know whether
the author is a native speaker of English, and if so which part of the
English-speaking world, because "funky" has multiple meanings depending
on the local slang.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:57:00 +0200, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:52:22 -0800 (PST), fl <rxj...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
>>Could you explain it to me?
>
>You seem to have omitted "the following".

It's there in the post I received. It might be mistaken for a sig
because it is preceded by a row of dots:

.......
Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they have no
control
over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's happening.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Steve Hayes]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:06:03 +0000, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:57:00 +0200, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:52:22 -0800 (PST), fl <rxj...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
>>>Could you explain it to me?
>>
>>You seem to have omitted "the following".
>
>It's there in the post I received. It might be mistaken for a sig
>because it is preceded by a row of dots:

Yes, I mistook it for a sig.

[CDB]

On 14/11/2015 6:01 AM, Peter Moylan wrote:
> fl wrote:

>> I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town'
>> means. Could you explain it to me?

>> ....... Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they
>> have no control over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's
>> happening.

> Are you sure it's on line? I tried to put this into a Google search,
> and none of the (partial) hits included the word "funky".

> The reason I searched is that it's hard to answer the question
> without knowing the background. The Google results suggest that it's
> written by someone with a mental illness, but it's also important to
> know whether the author is a native speaker of English, and if so
> which part of the English-speaking world, because "funky" has
> multiple meanings depending on the local slang.

["Sure starting to sounding like funky town. Basically they have no
control over the process.Which to means hard to tell what's happening."]

You can trace a connection from "funky" meaning "smoky" through
"strong-smelling" and "smelling of sweat" to "physical/sexual" (in
contrast to "intellectual/ethereal"). That might lead to something like
the use above, which seems to mean "instinctive/unintellectual" in
contrast to "planned and deliberate".

As others have remarked, the originator of the text seems to be confused.

[Janet]

In article <4qtd4bdb44h1710fm...@4ax.com>,
haye...@telkomsa.net says...

>
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:52:22 -0800 (PST), fl <rxj...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I see the following on-line, but I don't know what 'funky town' means.
> >Could you explain it to me?
>
> You seem to have omitted "the following".

It's just slow, probably held up in traffic.

Janet

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