|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 460
addict
|
OP
addict
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 460 |
"… take the word 'giggling'. A one-word harvest of play's superfluity, its liquid, lovely over-indulgence, it has g's to spare, (g, the funniest consonant. You want proof? Gnu. Gneed I say more?) and it fills the gaps with 'i' -- the quickest, wittiest, lickspittiest, trippiest and lightesthearted of all the vowels."
"… Living languages are self-propagating, spawning seed syllables, stretching ambiguously, syntactically tactile, diffuse and suggestive as sex itself, abundant, panglossolalic, profligate, vocative, evocative and provocative. Now slippery with fictive fascination; now stiff with austere truth; now tickled with trenchant absurdity; language luxuriates in a careless, splendid, inefficient uproar I AM ALIVE."
The above excerpts are from "Pip pip: a sideways look at time" by Jay Griffiths (Flamingo 1999). A wonderful read!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
g, the funniest consonant. You want proof? Gnu. Gneed I say more?
Gag
Garbage
Gunk
Gantry
Gaff
Gamble
Gorge
Gack
Not to mention that there's no guh in gnu.
Not that gnus are particularly funny unless you want to make people believe that you've made a point.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605 |
Not that gnus are particularly funny
They're gnot? That's gnews to me.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Not that gnus are particularly funny
They're gnot? That's gnews to me.
Ever smell one?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400 |
Ever smell one?
Numbers have an aroma? what do numbers smell like? do they all smell the same?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Numbers have an aroma?
Obviously missing from your wide array of talents, ledasdottir, is synesthesia.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
synesthesia
Bless you!
*giggle*
what a delightful thread! and thanks for the book recommendation ~ i've an Amazon coupon i need to use by the 31st.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400 |
K- at least it is akording to Krusty the Klown.. in one episode of The Simpsons he laments that he doesn't have enough words K -Koo Koo idea i am sure.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,696
Members9,187
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
1 members (A C Bowden),
190
guests, and
5
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
