4 posts tagged “language”

Yesterday I rolled Arwen's window down so she could say goodbye to a little friend, and her purple balloon got sucked out the window! If you've ever witnessed this, it is a true heartbreak for a child. Their tears are genuine.

Trying to put a good spin on her tragedy I said, "But he's free now! He got his freedom!"

I expected more tears, but she said, "You mean she."

Seth teased me by pretending to eat a big slice of apple, as opposed to the small bite that he knows I prefer. I ignored it.

"Seth, they say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. What do you think that means?"

My interesting tone took his attention away from The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and he said, "Doctors don't like apples?"

Which, ahem, "internets" clichés do you wish would go away already?

I except that language has to evolve. When Shakespeare had his heyday, our language saw all kinds of new words created like "critic", "circumstantial", and "hush". I like that. But I like old things.

I'll be glad when "whom" makes it's way out of the grammar book because so few people ever remember how to apply that word. It's not practical for me. Anything that would sound pretentious to my family members, I can't use it. And if I can't use it, I can't remember the rules for it. (I was relieved to figure this out because I'd thought I was just dumb.)

Most of our new words, I'm guessing, are being created in technology and medicine. That's necessary, useful. But there are new words on the internet, slang that hurts my teeth. "I has a cheeseburger." ?? "Woot" ?? I truly don't want this to get into the mainstream, face to face language. My internet friends do this. Good people. I like you all very much. Please stop!

Wow. When I posted Monoglot, (Isn't that a terrible word? Sounds like an accusation.) I'd no idea how expensive Rosetta Stone would be. Of course I've heard nothing but good things about it. I finally thought about looking it up when I was actually in front of the computer, and I think we could hang out in Mexico for a while at that price. I'm a pure bred cheapskate. The worst kind, actually my sister is even worse. Having said that, I do love good quality. Those two attributes tend to war with each other. But I have decided to let my membership at the gym go. They tell me I'll lose the good price, again, appealing to my frugal side, but I'm not getting my money's worth lately; that would pay for a good chunk of the Spanish lessons. And my birthday's coming up :)