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Egg

Registered: 12-2011
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I love words
I love thought
I love the way we can paint a picture with words to share our thoughts
To expose our deeper parts
To be more genuine

There is nothing more wonderful than a deep, thoughtful conversation with someone who can see more than one way

Someone who sees the back roads, not just the expressway

Who prefers the back roads because they’re likely to meet a new someone

Or see something unusual

End up somewhere unexpected

I think I got this love of context and nuance from my grandmother, my most beloved Nana, because she struggled to make herself understood. She came to the USA from Russia with little formal education. She spoke Russian and Yiddish. She learned English from the butcher and the baker. She learned from a French woman and an old man from Jamaica – the island, not Queens – and eventually she learned from me. English that is. I learned everything else from her.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
F Scott Fitzgerald
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Registered: 11-2011
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I share your loves (and heritage, to an extent - my people are from Ukraine). I was fortunate to have four Babas (two grannies and two great-grannies). Only one spoke English well. But I learned much from all.

And I love message boards and the internet! No invention has made the world smaller and less remote. The fact that we can speak instantaneously to folks around the world, at any time, on any subject, still staggers me.

Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts. :)

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You can observe a lot just by watching - Yogi Berra
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Registered: 11-2011
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I remember one or two blog posts about your Nana, Dianne. As I recall, she was a true gem.

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Registered: 11-2011
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I like words, though I have limited diction. I suppose it is how you use them?

Take away the knife and you have a tongue. Take away the tongue and you have art.

Expression is a delivery by train. Next stop Madhatten
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Registered: 11-2011
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Words are wonderful. Without them, how would we translate what is in our heads into a form that another can understand?

It's probably why I get so riled up when folks can't spell or use the right word. If I see one more sports fan online say "I hope we don't loose tonight" I think I'll crawl through the screen, grab the bumpkin by the bodkin and slap him with a mackerel.

Or some other fish, as recommended by Frank, who probably knows the best slapping fishes out there. emoticon

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