Sunday, August 13, 2006
Fun with Words
I was in a supermarket today (and no, that's not the funny story). The woman on the loudspeaker was announcing the fact that they had fresh, hot French bread for sale in the bakery. Unfortunately, she slightly misspoke, and instead claimed that there were hot French beds in the bakery. My curiosity got the best of me; I visited the bakery. There were no linens in sight--only baguettes. Now Albertson's is just teasing me.
My other experience with word fun today was checking my spelling of the word "redundant" and found the following definition*:
I guess just one of those definitions would not suffice. Again, my love of irony allows me to find even dictionaries amusing.
*Source: Dictionary.com
My other experience with word fun today was checking my spelling of the word "redundant" and found the following definition*:
re·dun·dant
- Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
- Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
- Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
I guess just one of those definitions would not suffice. Again, my love of irony allows me to find even dictionaries amusing.
*Source: Dictionary.com
Comments:
I have the same sense of humor. I wonder if the people who make dictionaries actually do things like that on purpose, because they get so bored. If I were making a dictionary, I'd make the whole experience more interactive. As in, you look up gullible in my dictionary, and it would say, look up on the ceiling, it's written right there. Doesn't that teach somoeone pretty well? I just wish the dictionary was more crazy and tricky.
People who write the dictionaries have probably never seen the light of day...they might have even needed to go to Urban Dictionary to see what "mouse potato" meant.
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