Todays Three Word Wednesday is – rest, sidewalk, twice.
Once I walking from the car, across a couple of feet of grass to the sidewalk. Suddenly, my leg was in a hole up to my thigh. It was perfectly round and about 1.5 feet wide, covered only by a bit of grass. My husband pulled [...]
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3WW, a true story
Posted in 3WW, language on March 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Why I like the tag cloud
Posted in language, tagged cool on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
See it, over there, on the right? No, your other right. The thing where the words aren’t all the same size? Yeah, that.
When I was looking at blogs, I would notice the cloud and think, hmm, some words are bigger. Interesting design feature. Do they like these words better?
It turns [...]
Sunday Scribblings: Foul
Posted in Sunday Scribblings, counselling, language on February 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Foul…
Foul weather – this winter
Foul mood – run!
Foul ball – after you throw it for the dog and it lands in a pile of dog poo
Foul… Funny how you think about a word long enough and you can’t make sense of it.
Fowl.. I saw a lot of Trumpeter swans today, taking over the [...]
Colpocoquette
Posted in language on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I had to use that word. John found it and for some reason read it out to me. Of course, I had just shown him a top I bought that was too tight and low cut but I plan to layer. That might have brought on his new word.
(No, I am not [...]
Changing perspective
Posted in language, psychology on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(It’s snowing, it’s snowing, it’s snowing!!!!)
From Wikipedia:
Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. One may further recognize a number of subtly distinctive meanings, [...]
