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Is that Pig Latin, Mr. President?
Blog Guy, I was surprised to see you missed “Talk Like a Pirate Day” this week. It was fun!
Oh please. All that “ahoy” and “matey” stuff? Sorry, I waited for today instead, when we talk like presidential pirates.
You mean like U.S. Presidents would talk if they were pirates?
Yes, if the presidential pirates also spoke in Pig Latin. Welcome to “Presidential Pirate Pig Latin Day.”
I’m going to need to see how this works, Blog Guy.
Look, what’s the most famous presidential quote of the last 200 years?
Repeat after me, “Fill the bag with money!”
Blog Guy, you know that odd city in Siberia that you call Wackytown? I’d like to visit it on one of your organized tours, but I’m wondering how many people there speak English?
You’re talking about Krasnoyarsk. I do know they do have English Language classes at a high security prison camp.
Really? What sort of English are they teaching to prison inmates?
Well, here on the right is a chart used in the class. You can see useful words such as disarrange, unhappy, misinform… You know, as in, “If you misinform me I will be unhappy, and I shall have to disarrange your face!”
Yikes! Is that a good idea? Are they teaching them whole phrases, too?
Let’s blow up a section of the chart, and see. Class, repeat after me, “Must I go to the BANK? We haven’t got any MONEY.”
Putting in a good word for good words
Most of us have favorite words, and it is a very personal choice. We enjoy the images they evoke and the sound that they make.
I remember hearing that someone’s favorite word was marmalade. Damn, that is one fine word. It brings to mind color, taste, aroma and sweet childhood summers.
Language is important in my blog, and I have tags for word play, puns, even mondegreens.
My own favorite word may be haberdasher. Most of us learn that word when we are taught that Harry Truman started out as one. Then we never use it again.
That’s a shame. I’ve been trying to bring the word back. I have used it nine times in my blog, never in connection with Truman. It is an uphill battle.
Some of our language’s best words are used to describe the worst people. Scalawags, knaves, rapscallions, miscreants. Oddly enough, we still have those people, we just call them less colorful names now.
Holy moley! Seven vowels?
Yikes, I have more than enough trouble with just five, plus all those consonants.
Any link between this and the Welsh predilection for Pork and Leeks?
That’s quite an accent you have there…
Blog Guy, I need some of your job-hunting advice. I was working on a résumé, but then I stopped.
Oh, you MUST resume your résumé. Why did you stop?
I needed lunch. I’m eating a clear beef broth and some healthy Japanese soybeans my mom sent.
Well, you need to resume your résumé after you consume your consommé and eat your mommy’s edamame…
I can’t get motivated. Maybe I’ll put on some music. We love jazz in my New Orleans neighborhood.
You live in Tremé?
I finally get home after a long day
I’m feeling a little blasé
to the OE Blog Network I go
hoping for for what, I don’t know
You guys make me laugh…what can I say? 
Cleopatra? Who died and made YOU queen?
Blog Guy, I see there’s a very popular new biography of Cleopatra. Have you read it?
Indeed I have. “Cleopatra: A Life,” by Stacy Schiff. It’s a fascinating read. Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty, you know.
Ptolemaic? How do you even pronounce that?
Ignore the “P.” They began a lot of words with “Pt” back then just for fun. See, they didn’t have Blu-ray or PlayStation or other real entertainment.
Is that right? I’m sensing you know nothing about this. How did Cleopatra get around Egypt?
Considering their love of Pt words, I guess she used a PT Cruiser on land, and a PT boat on the Nile.
No booty here, and that’s the gospel!
Check it out. A new edition of the Bible, available tomorrow, is replacing words such as “booty” and “holocaust” to “better reflect modern understanding.”
I am not making this up.
“Holocaust” is being changed to “burnt offerings,” so that readers who are easily confused won’t think the Bible is talking about the 1940s Holocaust.
Among other changes, the word “booty,” which now has a sexual connotation, will become “spoils of war.”
Our FaithWorld Blog says this new edition is the outcome of a 17-year project by a committee. I like to think it took so long because the committee got really carried away making endless lists of other words for “booty.”
But what our story doesn’t reveal is that this is just the first wave of updates.
No points for “Mrs. Paul”, “fish”, “sticks”?
Maybe the meaning changes across generations…
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