Think things over, Callahan. Get with it. It's a whole new ball game these days.
During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), English officers who had done badly were sent to the British military base at Stellenbosch, without losing rank, to look after horses there. Eventually, the term came to refer to relegating or reassigning someone considered incompetent or incapable to a position of lower responsibility, and is thus a demotion, even though there may be no loss of rank or pay. It generally, though not always, arises in connection with military affairs. The word is therefore known as a toponym (see place-name).]
Once again, there are special effects, muscles and explosions, boomity boom boom.
Greimas narrates this process of producing meaning by describing the tendency of discourse to substantify relationships so that "whenever one opens one's mouth to speak of relationships, they transform themselves, as if by magic, into substantives.
substantify
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