49 Up (2005)

Proceeding with the Up series, we get some juicy bits about the death of the East End, and how some of the English are seeking the East End away from the East End (in some cases, even away from England); also, we get to see how teaching immigrants wore away an English teacher the same way water wears away a stone (by dripping on it, not by smashing it). At any rate, this was another lovely installment, and now there is only one to go for me to catch up (and then, hopefully, many more will come). Now I give the academically minded of you the link to an article which may have something to do with this TV series' concerns. Perhaps a few in my legion of readers will remember my comments on the previous installment about the wrong interpretation given to a St. Francis Xavier saying; well, after reading the first paragraph of the abovementioned article it becomes obvious that its author got it wrong too, and in exactly the same way as the Up series did. I was ready to suppose that the outvoted old meaning had to go (that is how democracies work), but then, from the second paragraph onwards, as the real subject of the article is exposed, a non-sequitur occurs: the subject of the research is close in meaning to the Catholic saint's old saying (it's a sort of modern-day, non-religious version of it). My conclusion is that the author seems to believe the two meanings are the same.