Sunday, June 13, 2010

Because I haven't Blogged in a While

It's not that I've been too busy. It's not that I haven't had anything to write. Blogging is an evacuation of words from the mind, like shitting is an evacuation of feces from the body. So, in keeping with that analogy (Don't you like how the word "anal" is in the word "analogy"?), the reason I haven't been blogging is because I've been constipated, word wise. There are so many things inside me, so many words that I'm blocked. So this blog post, you might say, is sort of an enema, an attempt to clear out the blockage. To this end (end is another word associated with ass), here are a few words of which I really like the sound: gurney, meander, cretin, llama, beard, brewery (that word always makes me sound drunk when I say it, which is why I like it), phalanges, malcontent, curmudgeon, putrid, and discombobulate. That was fun. More word musings: I always thought the word infinity should be longer. It would make sense. I mean, I know it can't go on forever, which would be cool, making its spelling the literal meaning of it. Or maybe making it a palindrome would be a more practical way of giving it that literal effect, spelling it infinifni. For that matter, why isn't palindrome a palindrome? Are there any words that are the literal meaning of themselves? Like the word noun is a noun, but verb is a noun too, and that's just annoying. A gerund is a verb acting as a noun, and there are many nouns that lead dual lives as verbs, such as run or go, but I don't think there is a word for those words. I think that might be a paradox, but I'm not sure. So, instead of pondering further, I will just end this blog...if I had said that with an "ing" after it, I think it might have been a gerund.

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