Monday, April 11, 2011

Infamous (I)

Today's letter is I, and I'm pretty happy with I. I is the first letter of my first *and* last names. My initials then are IMI, and in Japanese that means, well, meaning. So am I meaning? Meaning of what?

I (me, not the letter) love language. How in+credible it is that we can take pieces of sounds and symbols, add them together to make more sounds and symbols. How in+genious of us to create a multitude of meanings and uses, forms and functions, out of air and vibration of our vocal cords. Whoa.

Nothing wrong with having fun with the in prefix, eh? Some other favorites:

incommunicable (so much of art comes out of our need to communicate the incommunicable)
incomplete (I have too many projects like this)
insinuate (ah, the subtleties of language)
instability (= life)
inextinguishable (true love, and yes, I believe it exists)

Do you ever have fun with language? What are some favorite words, morphemes, sentences?

Today is my first post over at The Caffeine Coquette. Do check it out, won't you? I shared a step by step tutorial to make a cute little candy container for Easter. Here's a teaser picture of the final product.




N. has already devoured the candy, but I'll fill it up again for Easter....

5 comments:

  1. Bom Dia Amiga!
    Que mimo ficou a cestinha de Páscoa!Notei que ai usam muito o pintinho pra enfeitar na Páscoa né?
    Ikeda vou fazer uma seleção de palavras ou frases que usamos aqui na minha região. Moro no Rio Grande do Sul, na cidade de Santa Maria, meu estado faz divisa com Argentina Uruguai Paraguai.
    Pra ir fazer compras no Uruguai são só duas horas e meia, então temos muita influencia na deles linguagem .Aqui na minha cidade como é região central, é cidade transitória, por causa da universidade Federal, vem muitos alunos até de fora do País, Tem muitos quartéis, do Exercito Brasileiro, Pra ti ter uma ideia os homens de minha familia todos militares, agora meus filhos tbém, dai nas férias a cidade fica só com os moradores, mas amo aqui. E ai parece que tu ama tbém, se encanta com a linguagem isso é bom divertido.
    Ótima semana!
    Bjos Carinhosos!

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  2. What a beautiful blog! I found you through the A to Z challenge and I look forward to reading more from you.

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  3. I agree with you completely about how amazing language and words are. I really admire that you speak more than one language! How incredibly fascinating!

    Off to read your Caffeine Coquette article!

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  4. What fun...I too love words.

    Sweet Easter image.

    Monday hugs my friend. xo

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  5. I love playing with my words. ^_^ My favorite words change from time to time, but recent/current favorites include: Maniacal, unwieldy, crimson, passion, fundamental(ly)

    My current favorite I-word happens to be incessant. Second being infamous.

    :-)Too much info?

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