Everyone loves a dog, or their cat, or a fuzzy koala bear. I can't imagine my home without a dog at hand. And most of them came to me as a shelter animal; some critter that had fallen into the wrong hands and ended up in a pen with sad eyes. They are all broken in some way. Poor Riff was just too much of a handful for a family and needed some good coaching & structure. Waylon is an unknown, but I'm pretty sure that he was a hurricane or storm victim from Oklahoma and went wayward from a good home and never found his way back. He just wants a safe space to share.
This entry is a video feature via 60SecondDocs. The photographer is Alex from Australia and her calling is to showcase disabled animals. Damaged ones who still have an incredible sense of dignity and charm that translates into photos. They are misfits in the animal kingdom who might be blind, missing a leg or have scars from humans themselves. Like any good photographer she finds character in each and you can see a joy and a resilience in their eyes.
I would never call myself a linguist. Although, I do have a large vocabulary and took pride in winning the Spelling Bee in both 7th & 8th grades. But as I get older, I think my span of the English language shows itself in my letter writing and certainly my blogging. I also dabble a bit with my own cabaret lyrics as well as writing what I hope to be good script for my cabaret sets. Crossword puzzles can eat up hours of my time on a rainy day like today.
So when I stumble across an interesting feature on #Words, it piques my interest for sure. Especially when you bring politics into the mix! The Broadway force that is #Hamilton is a great arena where the two can clash with fireworks. Via a great story on the Mind Circle, it lists 30 "lost" words in the English language compiled by York University. With typical British "cheek" they also bounce off the tongue easily which makes them all the more fun to insert into conversations. All the words have something to do with corruption. Some favorites: Coney–catch, b, v: To swindle, cheat; to trick, dupe, deceive
Quacksalver, n: A person who dishonestly claims knowledge of or skill in medicine; a pedlar of false cures
Peacockize, v.: To behave like a peacock; esp. to pose or strut ostentatiously
Merry-go-sorry, n. A mixture of joy and sorrow
Ear-rent, n. The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk
Be sure to check out the article link so you can see the entire plethora of definitions. Use one in a sentence soon!
