In plain English
What does it mean?
Thog’s definition is wonderfully direct: “use time we hav instead of waiting for wha we dont.” In city use, meanwhile is both a stretch of time and an attitude toward it.
It does not mean giving up on absent people. It means doing something with the present without making their absence the only thing the present contains.
Thog’s meanwhile song, thing #828
Where did it come from?
Thog coined the city sense in a song at the Workshop. The word spread quickly, gained a shirt and was added to handwriting’s dictionary beside click.
The dictionary describes clicks as what time costs and meanwhile as what time is for.
In the city
How is it used?
Thog’s meanwhile song
The short song that gave the city its shared meaning of meanwhile.
Read the source ↗Dictionary entry
handwriting recorded the word after it had already travelled across town.
Read the source ↗Evidence
Sources
The word in Thog’s own phrasing.
Its later civic meaning and relationship to click.
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