There are billions of people and a version of normal to go along with each one of them. No two versions are exactly the same. There will be hundreds of thousands of little things that make up your version of normal. With any luck you can find people that have close to the same idea of what normal is that you do. These are your friends. Anyone else you try to tolerate as best you can.
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The exact definition of normal depends on who's running the asylum.
Thursday, August 26, 2021
5251 - The English language
If you think about it, a few umlauts could fix this problem.
Fish?
What is the irony? That the H is capitalized in the first word?
Stu - I had to look that fish up. Explanation[edit] · gh, pronounced /f/ as in enough /ɪˈnʌf/ or tough /tʌf/; · o, pronounced /ɪ/ as in women /ˈwɪmɪn/; · ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation
You are jesting on the irony comment aren't you? I do find it ironic (and typical of our language) that non-hyphenated IS hyphenated.
ReplyDeleteSue - It was a distracting jest.
ReplyDelete#18 of the hard to learn English should have read "Upon seeing the tear in the painting of her she shed, she shed a tear."
ReplyDeleteThose damn seahorses!
ReplyDeleteI pity anyone who tries to learn English as an adult.
ReplyDeleteSimmons - There's a contest in the making. How many doubles can you get into one sentence?
ReplyDeleteDeb - They mess up EVERYTHING!
Kathy - I totally agree. And once they do have a grasp of it, trying to understand puns.
Phew-y on phony Peter Piper, that privileged pecker.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the English language is fairly insane.
Enjoying your blog, Mike.
Keep a smile.
Oldie but goodie
ReplyDeleteGhoti spells ?
Robyn - A privileged pecker is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteStu - I had to look that fish up.
Explanation[edit] · gh, pronounced /f/ as in enough /ɪˈnʌf/ or tough /tʌf/; · o, pronounced /ɪ/ as in women /ˈwɪmɪn/; · ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation