WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK!!!

carlbob | carlbob/rowdee

[Rowdee]

Knowing what we know now, and with the advantages of instant contact with linguists and entomologyists (I think thats the word), how would you like to develop a new language.....take a single word and have it stand for a complete sentence?

I had a brother-in-law who was deaf-mute. What a hoot! Fastest writer alive he was....only it wasn't complete sentences....if he was going to the store, he wrote "store" and left!

He came to live with us at our ranch in Montana. I was busy learning the new role of Super Suzie HomeMaker--canning, baking, churning butter, making cheese, the whole 9 yards. Sometimes when my daughters came in from school I'd be in the middle of making a batch of something and trying to get dinner going...and they would invariably ask a question or make comments and I'd come back with "yeah, well , uh, oh wait a minute...." sort of response and the girls always laughed and carried on that Momma stuttered or she couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time.

Anyhow, we had a rule that at dinner time, hubby, Clarence, the deaf-mute, my 2 teenage daughters and I would all use sign language--to develop our skills and to really make Clarence feel that we wanted him in our family. Daughters and I had to carry the little sign language cards. One evening I had cooked porkchops, biscuits, mashed taters and gravy, and he was antimated as he was describing how he felt about the meal.

To respond to him, I didn't want to just say, "thank you", so I had my little card and was forming the letters, screwed up, started over--this happened a couple of times as I was all flustered. My 14 year old daughter very quietly said, "Oh, God! Now she's stuttering in sign language".

[185JHP]

Thanks, the version I heard was garbled.

[Amore]

Great list of sentences. I think people tend to forget how tricky our language really is -- but I get remindeded every time I have to explain to my little niece why something is so -- and I realize that there really is no explanation and that the correct answer makes no sense.

[Rowdee]

Speaking of s**t....I heard someone describing all sorts of it without actually using the word! Funny.

[Rowdee]

Shucks!! There's always some serious person that just wants to talk politics, politics, politics!!! Thanks...

[Rowdee]

The use of the word "Since"......how is this one:

Since I don't have any cents to spend, there is no sense in going shopping.

[Rowdee]

Very good!

[Rowdee]

Did you read my comment about that being 'tongue in cheek'. :)

[185JHP]

There was a guy on ESPN who kept saying "El Fuego!" when a particular player was on a hitting tear - later he said he meant to say "En Fuego!" Hard to tell, with those guys...

[HighWheeler]

....So one moose, 2 meese?.....

I hate to do this, but it's the law:

So the plural of choose is cheese.

"He took minutes to choose a choose from the plate of cheese, sheez"

[Rowdee]

Great....do you know, as I was reading that section of the moose and meese, goose and geese, cheese did cross my mind....but I said, "no, nobody would bring that up".

Oh well.......

Have a great day.

[HighWheeler]

Well, all I have to say is: "The choose stands alone."

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

My answer, plain and simple: Down deep, I believe I've discovered the reason the rest of the world 'hates' us!

LOL! Happy New Year Rowdee! :)

[CommiesOut]

#36 !

[VRWC_Member428]

This may be a bit risque`, but here it goes...

Why do women have a pair of panties, and just one bra?

[rockfish59]

glad i was born here so i can understand it all!

[operation clinton cleanup]

arnge.. as in arnge you glad to see me? Not in dictionary, but I use it all the time.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Ah crap!!