Expressions You Love!

[Front-Ranger]

Turnaround's fair play!

One time I was falling asleep in a tent and I heard a voice on one side of me say, "Confucious say, Woman Who Run In Front of Car...Get Tired!"

After a short pause, I heard a voice on the other side of me say, "Confucious say, Woman Who Run Behind Car...Get Exhausted!"

I had too many giggles to go to sleep!!

[Artiste]

Merci Front-ranger !

That's interesting !

Au revoir,
hugs!

[Ellemeno]

I like the phrase "sense of well being and peace of mind."

[Jeff Wrangler]

A sign I saw a couple of days ago:

"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."

 

[Front-Ranger]

Ver' good friends. My mother sends me news clippings from Buck's English that talk about folksy expressions and funky English usage. These are peppered with local characters like Ms. Clarisse Van Beauregard and Betty Jean Hackberry and places like Curly's Soonerco, and the Swayback Daily Kick newspaper. It's written by Gene Owens of South Carolina. You know of him friend Truman??

[Lynne]

I tend to like adverbs derived from adjectives, like relentlessly, endlessly, redoubtably...

[CellarDweller]

I don't know why I like this saying, but it makes me laugh!

Whenever I get riled up or angry about something, or if I'm being extra "irreverent", I tend to hear people say:

"Well, you're full of piss and vinegar today, aren't ya?"

[Jeff Wrangler]

I don't know why I like this saying, but it makes me laugh!

Whenever I get riled up or angry about something, or if I'm being extra "irreverent", I tend to hear people say:

"Well, you're full of piss and vinegar today, aren't ya?"

When have you not been full of piss and vinegar, Little Darlin'? 

[CellarDweller]

When have you not been full of piss and vinegar, Little Darlin'? 

 

[Front-Ranger]

You two are so cute!

Ver' good friends. My mother sends me news clippings from Buck's English that talk about folksy expressions and funky English usage. These are peppered with local characters like Ms. Clarisse Van Beauregard and Betty Jean Hackberry and places like Curly's Soonerco, and the Swayback Daily Kick newspaper. It's written by Gene Owens of South Carolina. You know of him friend Truman??

Here's an exchange from Buck's English:
"'How many drinks did you have at the Red Eye Saloon?' Hortense asked.
'Not many,' Luther said.
'How many is "many"?' Hortense asked.
'One more than I had,' Luther said."

[Ellemeno]

I tend to like adverbs derived from adjectives, like relentlessly, endlessly, redoubtably...

inadvertently?

[Lynne]

Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.

[Shasta542]

Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.

I like sizzle and woof and whack and rustle too! 

[delalluvia]

I like sizzle and woof and whack and rustle too! 

buzz, hiss, hush, freshet, swish, tintinnabulation...

[Kerry]

I like "There's a lid for every jar." 

For example, when someone shares an item of gossip with me, such as "Did you hear that Justin and Bamber have become foot fetishists?" my standard response is "There's a lid for every jar," delivered in a blasé monotone. I feel more cool    and in-control  when saying "There's a lid for every jar," which I prefer to the alternative "Get outa here!"   

[injest]

I like "There's a lid for every jar." 

For example, when someone shares an item of gossip with me, such as "Did you hear that Justin and Bamber have become foot fetishists?" my standard response is "There's a lid for every jar," delivered in a blasé monotone. I feel more cool    and in-control  when saying "There's a lid for every jar," which I prefer to the alternative "Get outa here!"   

Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHITS? Get outa here!!








 

[Kerry]

Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHISTS? Get outa here!!

 

  I like "Get outa here" too, even though I feel like I'm channeling Carson Kressley when I say it!     

[Jeff Wrangler]

Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.

How about "squeak" or "squeal"?

[serious crayons]

What I think is really interesting is the number of words that share just a couple of letters -- not whole root words -- but have similar meanings. For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:

Glow, glisten, glimmer, glass, glare, glint ...

So do words with FL:

Flash, flicker, flare ...

Words with GR have to do with earth:

Ground, grave, grass, grow, aGRiculture ...

And so on. I like to imagine that those little word fragments date back to caveman days. Like maybe back then they grunted "GLLL" when they saw a light, or "GRRRR" to indicate the ground.

[Front-Ranger]

Funny! Y'all remind me of Annie Proulx. I remember reading about how she loved the word bishop, because it sounded like slip and shlep, (or something like that) and she liked to imagine a tipsy bishop running through the woods.

[Wayne]

I like to imagine that those little word fragments date back to caveman days. Like maybe back then they grunted "GLLL" when they saw a light, or "GRRRR" to indicate the ground.

  Oooooh, I love this SC !! I will ponder on that image a while ...

[delalluvia]

Funny! Y'all remind me of Annie Proulx. I remember reading about how she loved the word bishop, because it sounded like slip and shlep, (or something like that) and she liked to imagine a tipsy bishop running through the woods.

Annie must have been tipsy herself to think the word bishop sounded similar to slip and schlep.

[Ellemeno]

I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.

LMNO

[serious crayons]

For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:

Glow, glisten, glimmer, glass, glare, glint ...

... glitter ...

I was thinking about this last night, and wondering if the GL rule also applies to some other words that aren't explicitly about light, but could have originally derived their meaning from "lit up" or "glowing":

Glamor, glory, glad ...

[delalluvia]

I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.

LMNO

I very much enjoy the words diphthong and anathema.  Simply for existing in our language. 

[serious crayons]

I saw one today that was interesting: "cognitive dysplasia," which supposedly means the feeling when you're about to leave the house that you've forgotten something and won't remember it until you're on the highway.

I'm not crazy about the term itself, but what a useful concept! That happens to me all the time.

[j.U.d.E.]

I like 'go figure' and 'you and me both'. The latter sounds wrong to me linguistically or syntax-wise, but apparently it's not.

And ever since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' I like the swear word 'bugger!'...  I think it's cute.

j.U.d.E.

[Shasta542]

I saw one today that was interesting: "cognitive dysplasia," which supposedly means the feeling when you're about to leave the house that you've forgotten something and won't remember it until you're on the highway.

I'm not crazy about the term itself, but what a useful concept! That happens to me all the time.

Me too. I usually forget my phone--and if I'm not too far away when I remember, I go back and get it!