Re: [slug-chat] "Pregnant Pause"

[Jan Schmidt <thaytan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've always understood the word pregnant in this context to mean 'filled 
with meaning' or tension, or possibility... generally just full of
something, hence 'pregnant' :)

Of course, I could be full of something myself - who knows?

;)

J.

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:52:38PM +1000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Rodos said:
> >Anyone know where the phrase "Pregnant Pause" come from? Everything2 has
> >something on it but I was just wondering what it really means.
> 
> In theatre, a pregnant pause is an uncomfortable pause, long enough for
> the audience to start to get bored and/or distracted.
> 
> -- 
> jamesw
> 
> Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY.
> 
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