I’ve always been fascinated by words and phrases, and how we manage to employ textures of meaning, even when we don’t know the etymologies. The Wired blog has a great post by John Scott Lewinski that called my attention to a new book called A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare. We learn, for instance, that we use language in chunks of words–as one linguist put it, “we know words by the company that they keep.” For instance, the…
So many of my friends emailed this to me that I had to think I’m either a kind of Mommy-archetype for my friends, or it had to be a very fun video. I think (I think) it’s the latter. A woman condenses everything a mom would say in a typical 24-hour period into the framework of the William Tell Overture. So, by viral selection, here it is: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU[/youtube] Yup. That’s about it. (Thanks to Barbara, and Jacque, and Troy, and….)…
Overly-true joke of the day: What’s worse than a wolf in sheep’s clothing? A wolf in shepard’s clothing. And all the sheeple, too.