tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post2093113547145323236..comments2023-04-07T13:44:47.542+02:00Comments on A Little Light Writing: Speculating on WordsYash...http://www.blogger.com/profile/11282092258881595092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post-83780071404925348552011-02-17T19:44:40.510+01:002011-02-17T19:44:40.510+01:00Anonymous: That sounds like an excellent strategy ...Anonymous: That sounds like an excellent strategy for getting through meetings at work. <br /><br />Beta Dad: You're right about the wordie value of having little blabber boxes around you. I kept a lot of their humorous utterances and bring them out from time to time to embarrass the "kids". Regarding your purple poo-poo people, I wonder if that's not the origin of that great classic song we grew up with, only titled differently. It should be the "One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple Poo-Poo People".<br /><br />Thanks for the comments!Yash...https://www.blogger.com/profile/11282092258881595092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post-3970108749449273792011-02-13T06:15:33.592+01:002011-02-13T06:15:33.592+01:00Having babies who are just learning to speak is an...Having babies who are just learning to speak is an amazing window into (possibly spurious) linguistic connections. There are a million different categories, but the most obvious is seeing (almost certainly false) common morphemes and phonemes in kids' utterances; i.e. purple, poo-poo, people, etc. <br /><br />Can't wait to read some of your (probably more likely) linguistic connections!Beta Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13848551175803773006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post-20539784117806569152011-02-13T03:03:43.056+01:002011-02-13T03:03:43.056+01:00Reading dictionaries can be very entertaining...an...Reading dictionaries can be very entertaining...and useful. Wisconsin U.S. Senator Proxmire had a dictionary in every room in his house. He would take pages with him to social functions. To avoid being bored by all the chatter and speeches, he would sit at the guest of honor table reading his dictionary pages, while others thought he was going over his speech notes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post-89397570578024122822011-02-13T00:02:19.274+01:002011-02-13T00:02:19.274+01:00Kelly -- Another wordie! Yay. Keep reading this bl...Kelly -- Another wordie! Yay. Keep reading this blog, then! :)<br /><br />My problem is that once I hit on a plausible connection, I can't get it out of my head until I know how close I am to (or far from) the truth. So I *have* to look it up!<br /><br />Thanks...Yash...https://www.blogger.com/profile/11282092258881595092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061898389481753655.post-35983030156239451782011-02-12T20:56:25.974+01:002011-02-12T20:56:25.974+01:00I knew I liked you guys for a reason! We're al...I knew I liked you guys for a reason! We're all nerds! Although clearly your nerdiness is much smarter than mine. I love etymologies and finding similarities between languages and stuff... I'm just way to lazy to look up stuff and find out if my guesses are right! ;)kms handmadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177886332037861313noreply@blogger.com