Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Rain is gently falling into our pool and pond...I suppose that's good...

The noisy stuff has periodically brought heavier downpours.
Anything is better than a hurricane and so I will accept our moist gloom…
Most rains storms darken the skies as we all know.
Occasionally it does rain with the sun shinning.
I always wondered why that happens; does anyone know?
This is a quiet calm sort of wetness.
Rather silent but now rounding to a crescendo into a noisier variety!
Slowly it lowers itself once again down to a whisper…
Peacefully it slows to a shallow steady even tempo…
Melodically it dances all over the canal.
Don’t you all just love to watch the rain while warm and dry inside or in a protected area;it’s so serene.

The rain is flowing steady at this time and will be my tonight’s backdrop for my tales of… let me see… of woe? This one means sadness.
Or is it better if I say whoa? Nah that means halt, stop, don’t go on!
Homophone or homonyms are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
But you all knew that; nothing new there and there I go again without their help, that’s the encyclopedia I meant, huh?
Hey, this is fun!
I will challenge you to write some of your own then to also make some sentences that make sense, for no cents, since I won’t be paying you, ha!
If you worked in advertising this would be a great word exercise, you could actually add it into your ad background on your resume.
At lunch you may want to aide a new member of your firm with finding the ade in the break room frig. Hopefully it has been all cleaned up since that elderly woman drove her car into it; she claimed that she confused the brake with the gas!
On occasion I get these little pearls of vocabulary confused I am very sure that you have caught me many a time; my biggest guffaw is with effect and affect; the first is the result and the latter is to change, and this latter means the last, but you might very well be the latter to climb the ladder; see I did it!
Oh here’s a good one that I get a lot of mileage out what ails you, could it be all that ale you consumed, ha?
Have you all ever used an awl when constructing a project, huh?
When you got married was it at an altar and did it alter your life?

I could go on all night doing this wordy fun, but I will let you continue on your own: copy and paste this site and see what you can accomplish in this sort of mind flexing form of entertainment: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

It would be heartwarming to see others utilizing this grand language that we mutilate daily or nightly in my case, but having some enjoyment with our very difficult to learn English if you were not born into this country. Why this language has so many ways to confuse anyone who might be trying to learn it, it makes others look that much simpler! So all you hot shots who complain why the new members of our country don’t just speak may I suggest you try theirs, or get amnesia and try and learn ours all over again!
And I didn’t mean Milk of Magnesia!
See I went in another direction,how's that folks?

On that silly note I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Speaking My Mind: Which way will the war go?

Speaking My Mind: Which way will the war go? :   My eyesight is going again... in case you missed it... Netanyahu snaps back against growing...