Words can be funny. Four egg sample, eye in joy you sing words that sound like they should bee OK to gather, butt their really knot. And then you have words that people make up; which can be really <\/b><\/i>funny. However, it’s probably not polite to laugh at folks when they do it; especially if it’s unintentional.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed just such a scenario some years ago. A friend and I were talking at work… I remember work! Work is the opposite of retirement!! Anyway, we were commiserating about work and then we thought that instead we should be trying to help each other stay grateful and not allow negative things to rot our souls and Holy Moly are we fortunate or what and although I didn’t talk to him with a run-on sentence you can bet your bippy I’m doing it now to illustrate this event; and anyway he says that we both need to stay positive and push the negative garbage away and I said,<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it’s poison.\u201d And he replied, \u201cYES!! You know, I just love the way you terminologize <\/b><\/i>things!\u201d<\/p>\n
So!! I just kind of brooped and houted and said \u201caw shucks,\u201d and off we went to our jobfulness. Then, when I was looking for something to write about for \u201cHappy Friday!!!,\u201d I thought this would be fun. Just to be sure I did a search on a dictionary site for \u201cterminologize,\u201d and the result was \u201cWord not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Did you mean: terminology.<\/span> And I yelled with great varnashification at the screen, \u201cNO!! DIDN’T YOU SEE WHAT I TYPED IN THE SEARCH FIELD? I WANTED TO KNOW IF TERMINOLOGIZE <\/b><\/i>IS A WORD!! SHEESH!!<\/p>\n And of course the screen just sat there with that silly screenified look on its face.<\/p>\n Now in olden days, when I was much younger and much more crelbified with \u201cMr. Know It All\u201d disease, I would have told my friend, \u201cumm, I don’t think ‘terminologize’ is a word.\u201d No, I’ve learned that kind of correctification only serves to demean my fellow humans. I’m trying to be a recovering Know It All, in addition to some other recovery stuff I try to practice.<\/p>\n Conversely (that’s a real word…), I enjoy making up nonsense words to make people laugh. Sometimes they don’t get and say, \u201chuh??\u201d but most times folks chuckle a bit and repeat the word back to me while smiling.<\/p>\n Had that very thing happen a couple weeks ago. I was at the gas station, and came in to pay for my fuel. Then I spied some of those yummy 2 for a dollar sausage thingies in the little dispenser. I went to get the little paper sleeve they provide to put your links in, and had a heck of a time getting my fingers to do my brain’s bidding. \u201cI’m a bit clumsy this morning for some reason,\u201d I chuckled. Then I added, \u201cI think I need to declumsify. Don’t think that’s a word, but maybe it is now!\u201d The nice cashier lady laughed and said, \u201chmmm… declumsify!! I like it!! Sounds good to me!\u201d Then we bantered more pleasantries back and forth as I paid my bill. \u201cMy puppy loves these things,\u201d I said, pointing to the sausages. \u201cThanks, have a nice day.\u201d She smiled and answered, \u201cthank YOU. And thanks for the new word!!\u201d<\/p>\n One word that I didn’t <\/b><\/i>make up, is doable. What a stupid word!! It’s pronounced as if it were three words: \u201cdo a bull.\u201d Well that can be construed as being a bit naughty if you’re, say, 14 years old or above. When I look at it and apply pronunciation rules, I think it should be pronounced \u201cdoh \u2013 bull;\u201d because when I see \u201co\u201d and \u201ca\u201d together in other words, it’s pronounced with the long \u201co\u201d sound. Four egg sample: coat, or boat, or foal.<\/p>\n Anyway, pleas enjoy your words, whether imaginary oar knot. Eye no eye dew!! I try to make at least one incroflabious word every day.<\/p>\n I think…<\/p>\n These two guys mastered the silliness that can be found with words that sound the same but take much different meanings…<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tRs37ugCxyM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Words can be funny. Four egg sample, eye in joy you sing words that sound like they should bee OK to gather, butt their really knot. And then you have words that people make up; which can be really funny. … Continue reading