Thursday This and That
The past couple of days have been a bit hectic so I haven't responded much to emails or group posts. Thankfully things seem to have settled down again and perhaps later tonight I'll have time to do some writing.
Speaking of writing... scoot closer to the monitor those of you who are my friends. I need a favor. Whenever I post a blog entry in which I make an obvious mistake (like writing "your" when I should be writing "you're" or when I leave out a word) please write me privately and let me know. Sometimes I get in such a hurry that I don't always proof my entries well. Don't worry, you won't offend me - you'll be helping me out as I truly hate looking illiterate :)
Tonight is Lost night at our house - yay. Bill and I have this ritual of ordering Chinese takeout, spending some time just talking about the last week's show and our pet theories on the plotline, and then watching the latest episode. Really not very exciting I know, but it's the one night of the week that we don't let anything intrude upon. Not illness, not family illness, not anything except a dire emergency. I think when you have a stress filled life (and who doesn't to some degree or another) that's really important.
Speaking of stress - if you find something online (a funny video, a joke, etc) that you think Bill might find amusing, please send it to me. Since he's not responding quite as well to the chemo as we had hoped, we're operating on the theory that laughter is the world's best medicine. I'd appreciate your help :)
posted by Lady Julia @ 4:52 PM
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I'm not sure what kind of humour makes Bill laugh. This isn't s joke but I found it amusing.
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Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one loose tooth, two leese teeth? One index, two indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through the annals of history but not a SINGLE annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo or a truck by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? Lift a thumb to thumb a lift? Table a plan in order to plan a table?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can a person be "pretty ugly?" How can weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell on another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? For instance, have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly, or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house burns up as it burns down; in which you fill IN a form by filling it OUT; and in which an alarm clock goes OFF by going ON.
Why is "crazy man" an insult while to insert a comma and say "crazy, man!" is a compliment (as when applauding a jazz performance)?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I found it not funny, but rather hilarious! lmao :)
This is wonderful. He loved it, TVH :)
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