Emoji Etymology
The Japanese language has now come full circle. ♻️ Kanji started as pictures, morphed into ideograms, and eventually was combined in Japan with a syllabary that held phonetic value, and now technology is taking people back to the origin of writing roots.
Misheard Words
You see, our brains are meaning-making machines and will try to make meaning make sense even when it does not, and will fill in words it thinks it hears. The school game telephone (also known as Chinese whispers) exploits this property linguistically known as a mondegreen, which got its name through Sylvia Wright’s famous mishearing of the poetic line “layd him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen.”
Almond Bread
After my firstborn, a combination of stress and genetics triggered Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in me. (The fact that this disease was discovered by […]
A living vs. a life
I have to remind myself of this quote so often.
The process can be a beautiful product.
The dance between chaos and order is where we live and where are is born.
Doing in Order to Do
If I wait till I’m perfect and perfectly ready, then I will never begin.
How Can I Help? Freebies!
Parents are stressed. Teachers are stressed. I know because I am a parent and a teacher. I have also learned that if I find […]
Tea Party
This poem was written during my high school days when I was in my third depression, and when I found what an incredible healing tool writing could be.
How many languages do you speak?
Being able to speak a language is subjective. I have many Japanese friends who speak beautiful English but do not consider themselves to be English speakers.
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