Despite the bizarre sound, “homegrown” is the word that is sometimes used. At first it’s hard to say in what context. As always, context is determined by the speaker. Our task is to clarify the meaning, make suggestions and explain why homebrewing is sometimes bad.
Value and Suggestions
Start with the explanatory dictionary. The meaning of the word "homegrown":
- Grown at home.
- Ordinary, primitive (ironic and figurative).
It’s a strange thing, but it’s rather difficult to explain why the adjective has a second meaning. Probably, everything rests on the fact that man is a social animal, as Aristotle wrote. Therefore, in isolation from people, and most importantly, their affairs, he can not create anything original. We will explain this idea a bit later, but for now, sentences with the word:
- So you eat and don’t know that this is a homegrown lemon, I put a lot of blood and sweat into this creation.
- Yes, he is a very good writer. And if he had not been homegrown and at least read other colleagues, then he would have no price at all.
- I do not know how the device works. This person has no education, let alone engineering. What can I say, homegrown Kulibin!
We apologize for a fair amount of neglect in the sentences, but such an emotional tone in the word "homegrown", it depends only on him.
Ordinaryness grown on originality and genius based on cultural tradition
We return to the fact that man is a social animal. Andrei Alekseevich Astvatsaturov in his book “And Not Only Salinger ...” has a beautiful illustration of the section title. He somehow got into a poetry club, where a young growth of creative intelligentsia read poetry. Apparently, the works were still those, so A. A. Astvatsaturov asked the young people whether they rely on someone or create on their own. Talents said they wrote poetry “from the head”. In the same chapter, the author of the book examined T. S. Eliot, who encrypted several references to various mythologies in his poem "Bad Land". Thus, the poets from the club are mediocrity, imagining themselves to be original, and TS S. Eliot is genius rooted in cultural tradition. The moral of the story is this: you can’t boil in your own juice, especially when it comes to intellectual activity.
Synonyms
We realized that being homegrown is bad. But more importantly, we understood why this is bad. Now it remains to refer only to the synonyms of the adjective:
- primitive;
- ordinary;
- mediocre;
- banal;
- trivial.
It is important to say one more thing. Homegrown is not a sentence or an insult. Such treatment can be perceived as a challenge. In any case, it remains for the reader to wish this cup to pass.