WHAT IT WAS, WAS FOOTBALL So I was a runnin on & on about strong verbs vs. weak. To my wife, Doncha see? She sez that she was absent that day. I said that I mustve been playing footsie with the cutie in the seat in front of me, cuz while I remember hearing about subject-verb agreement, gerunds, cases, tenses and junk, I never really grokked it. But I was presently excited, for I had done a self-remedial freshener on the fly because Grammar Girl or somebody of that ilk, who knows, my mind is all fuzzy English now. The point is, I tried to explain: Its not really a value judgement, honey, its more of a, um, means of classification Not to get all Carlin or Griffith on ya, but its like in football, you gotcher weakside linebacker and strongside linebacker. Will & Sam. They are means of classifying who they are based on which side the tight end stations himself. Its not really a value judgement, either. Wellll, in a way, I guess it might be consid... I look over, Suzannes eyes all bugging out arooga-style. I stop & ask if I was amusing her or annoying her. Laughing she replied that she didnt understand a thing I was saying, so it was hard to determine. Maybe both. [Im going somewhere folks, grant me some latitude.] I then mused upon the possibility of a new coinage to mean amuse AND annoy, at once. Amazilate? I get a fierce not even close These are things that amused/annoyed in equal parts: a precocious child, Dubya, funny beer commercials, Hoops & Yoyo, mondegreens & eggcorns, Tiny Tims stint with Brave Combo, goofball wait staff, political correctness, peer roasts and Darwinian behavior. My wife would add me. So my challenge to yall is to come up with a word that would fill the bill.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:29:19 +0000
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